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[–] Stars 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
Tell us more about this mountaineer...
(edit: also, welcome!)
[–] teuast [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
Thanks!
I met him through the cross country club at my uni, where he is usually a bit faster than me but not by a whole lot. It'd be a bigger deal if I cared that much about being competitive, but I burned out on that back in high school. Now the only reason I go to races is to have a good time with the club. Anyway, he comes from a purely Han family, meaning he's a direct descendent of whoever it was that founded the Han dynasty, which is pretty cool, and the majority of his family lives in a single small town in China. He tells me he's been there a couple of times and finds it to be the most insufferably boring place on the planet, second only possibly to Fresno. Hence why he's so happy about being in California: without wanting to give too much identifying information, we're at a large public university with something of a countercultural bent, where people like him flourish. His parents, he says, want him to marry a nice Han girl, but at least for the last year he's been neither in the mood for a Han, nor a girl.
I figured out he was bi sometime after he had been going on at some length to me about this new significant other he'd found and kept refusing to use gendered pronouns, I guess out of fear I'd think it was weird that he was dating a guy. Eventually I just told him to chill out about it because I didn't care if he was gayer than Tyson Gay skipping gaily up a gay rainbow if he wasn't an asshole about it.
Anyway, then we both went through nasty breakups at the same time and bonded over it by taking acid and going hiking in a ravine in a storm at night, which probably wasn't the smartest thing to do while on acid but it was still fun as hell.
A few months later we took a couple of cross country club friends and went spelunking, which we actually have photos of oh dear I guess you know what uni I go to now. If you want to know more about his mountaineering exploits, he's got accounts of all of them on that blog.
As for the puns? Well, here's one: "That's really not something you should take for granite." Here's another: "Man, this topic is gonna be pumiced into oblivion before too long." And a third: "Hey, why you gotta be so stone-faced?" There's a bit of a pattern, yeah.
[–] Stars ago (edited ago)
That's a brilliant story haha. I'm out of upvotes right now but I'm gonna come back when I have more. Thanks for sharing! c:
(edit: Upgoated!)