quite possibly the sexiest graphic designer of the '04 class, dan "slim" is here to aestheticize your world.  he's been the source of countless met meals and a splash of risd sleepovers, a proud pennsylvanian who still has to visit geno in california.  please welcome rhode island school of design sophomore, dan sim.

interview with the geno
sunday, march 24, 2002, 1044 post, melissa's room in grad cen | geno in blue, dan in grey

how old are you?
nineteen.

how old do you feel?
sixteen.  no i don't.  seventeen.

do you like providence?  what about rhode island?
um...  huh?  i like providence.  rhode island sucks.

where do you see yourself in ten years?
[coughs.]  in a design firm, or, in the film graphic industry.

describe your ideal mate.
[laughs.  whispers to grace.]  um.  [tries to throw something at geno.]  you suck!  stop recording everything i say!  [throws tv controller at geno.]  my ideal mate of course has to be attractive and will complete everything that i lack.

wow.  what's your phone number?
home or school?

uh.  i was just kidding.  let's move on.  what do you like to do in your free time?
[thinking.]  draw.  [pauses.]  actually, no.  i go on aim.

who do you talk with most on aim, and what about?
isn't that a personal question?  [pauses.]  i don't know who i talk to most.  it changes.

okay.  lets say it's 11:25 ante on a thursday morning.  what are you doing?
i'm in chinese history class, sleeping.  sleeping in chinese history.

would you consider yourself a good student?
yes.  that's a stupid question.

so do you think i'm a stupid person?
[hesitates.]  yes.  wholeheartedly.  yes.

what would you like people you've never met before to know about you?
[coughs.]  i don't know.  um...  no.  i know.  i would like them to know that i don't like brown university.  [claps at his own joke while no one else in room laughs.]  i'm just kidding.

what is the worst thing about grace cheung?
that's a terrible question.

okay, fine.  i'm tired of talking with you.  any closing thoughts?
risd rules!

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notes | posted 03.24.2002

People of Celebrity Heights.

GINA KIM
diva queen of trance and industrial design.

MANUEL LAM
he's not a boy, not yet a man.

DANIEL SIM
the "slim," unadulterated.

MELISSA TSANG
the great normalizer.

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new  ///   THANKSGIVING 2001
what is there to do over thanksgiving break?  how about go to disneyland? or celebrate your niece's hundred-day birthday?  or see the family?  well, geno did it all.  come see what conspired.