Mark swam on the Gryphons swim team when I did too, back in 1987/88. An incredibly self-confident, outgoing, dynamic, energetic, funny, popular (and to some, obnoxious) guy, and an extremely good swimmer (he almost made the Canadian Olympic team). I remember him shouting obscenities in Cantonese out the bus window as we drove through Chinatown in Toronto to a swim meet; also dressing up as a vampy drag queen for the swim team Hallowe'en party. It seems he hasn't changed a bit, judging by a video interview I found on the web. The Universe is better for having created people like him, though I'm nonetheless sort of glad not to have the comparison nearby. You'd probably have loved him if you'd known about him (you were probably too busy with quantum assignments at the time), but might have been too scared to ask him for a dance. Or not; you could be quite surprising at times.
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Date: 2007-03-10 04:44 am (UTC)