Just been to a friend's house to celebrate her passing the Med Boards ^__^ hehehe doctor friend, really helps to know one, just in case. She also helped me some with the many uses of my cellphone; WAP is just not something that I could be bothered with. I must admit though, that it was kinda fun.

Anyway, so it was like back in highschool. They were some of the brainiacs in school back then (though I was as well) so it was fun. I can't help but wonder, when will I meet with that special someone?

Doc has her twin flame (another doctor who went to high school with us no less), Lel has someone she met at work, Lev's married and with a cute kid. Sidenote: Nica's soooo cute! Her birthday's on the weekend and I'm not too sure if I can get to it as Doc and Lel aren't too sure themselves and I don't want to crash never mind that I did receive a verbal invite.

They seem so happy and all I can really do is stand in the sidelines and observe. After all, that's what a scientist has to do right? Social scientists have to observe society. This is like the reverse of that PO thing that we used to prattle about in college, except while it's still PO, it's the opposite of it.

The first PO means participant observation, in that the researcher immerses oneself unto the project. For example, you want to study the slums, you live in the slums, become one of the slum dwellers in reality, for a period of time, so you can have the more reliable data rather than just observing them from afar.

My version of the PO is passive observation, in that the researcher consciously steps back from the event/project being observed and records the data gathered accordingly. You melt unto the background and see what goes on. Something of a wallflower type of thing, only you're not being left alone by your lonesome at the dance because no one wants to dance with you, it's a conscious choice to be left alone so you can observe the goings-on in the dance -- who dances with who, how he dances with her, who's getting too much spiked punch, which teacher's going off with who, where the principal is...

Seems like a cop out on life, don't you think? *shrug* to each one's own dude.

I was actually toying with an idea for use in Illusion during that time we were talking; I'm still thinking about it. It was a funny scene, somehow.