Mohit SantRam

the pitcher, the batter, the hitter and the roar of the crowd! the pitcher (heavy breathing in, heavy breathing out. sweat beads down his face. the crowd repeatedly roars”let’s go phil-lies!”) Screw them! (thump thump clap!) Be still my beating heart. wait, beating? no pounding! okay shit, focus dammit! what’s the count? three and one, [...]

She said sure, I’d love to go. Her warm green eyes assured me of her resolve. Subway turnstile turning. Subway doors closing. Ferry gates opening and the floating began. Smells of the park. Peanuts! Hot dogs! Beer! Speaking of her wanderlust, gazing over right field and Miss Liberty. I imagined her in downtown San Francisco.

We met at a wedding. She looked radiant in her evening gown. We chatted, we smiled, we flirted as people watched. I asked, she accepted, and the courtship began. Staten Island, Manhattan and Brooklyn. We sailed, we walked, we laughed. But she longed to leave for DC or San Francisco… …and then she said goodbye.

I am at ITP to learn more about technology, people and myself. I have had an interest in computers since I was 10 years old and I got my first Mac. Since then I developed an interest in computers and what I could do with them. I quickly found I had an aptitude to setting [...]