day 36 | ‘hawaii 5-0’

UCSB, 1983

i had a roommate in college, kit sparks, who would watch hawaii 5-0 after dinner
every night. at the beginning of the show, during the theme song, he would turn the
volume all the way up and i would play along on drums. our other housemates
would come running in, dancing and yelling
it was a ritual

as we watched the show we started thinking about the tests we should be
preparing for, or the papers we should be finishing.
one by one we returned to our studies
everyone except kit
every day, when he wasn’t in class, he would go to the library and do his work.
he was always caught up and had his nights free.

i think of kit sometimes when i’m putting off something i don’t want to do.
i tell myself “if you get it done now you can watch hawaii 5-0 later”
usually it doesn’t help, but it makes me laugh