what a refreshing experience. hyon gak and i ate lunch together today. after 2.5 weeks of email/phone/physical tag (the longest in his history). regardless, the experience was worth it. we talked about a variety of topics from teh formal robe that was stolen from his car to the idea of him being a lecturer at brown. no matter what the topic, the conversation was sincere and open and i felt like we were conversing 100% openly. i realized that quite often when talking with someone, we resort to talking about what that person wants to hear but this conversation was nothing like that. the conversation gave me happiness and i went back to programming in a good mindset.