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lunebinnie · 5 years

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(1/14)I am so sorry for taking so long! (I also had to spend a lot of time studying this week bc I had my first exam for my Anatomy Lab on Wednesday... And then we had our first exam for *Lecture* Thursday (which also was the day I had a bunch of powerpoints due for my very intimidating adviser...) and then I had to substitute teach all day Friday (and then I meant to respond sooner but I got so busy 😭) so yeah I completely understand about school getting in the way no worries abt it!)

And also sleeping in on a day off when you’ve been busy studying lately is completely valid hon 👌 I hope that your midterms go well and that you’re able to stay healthy and take care of yourself in the midst of preparing! (not that you wouldn’t, I just have a bad habit of neglecting things like healthy sleeping and eating habits when I get caught up studying, so hopefully you’re not like me in that way) And yeah me too! I mean on the one hand I understand *why* they have that limit

3)If u could just send as many as u want there would be so much more spam and ppl would definitely abuse that. But also?? Um? I have a chronic condition called ‘Can'tShuttheFuckUp-itis’? 🤷 This policy is so discriminatory towards people like me who suffer from this crippling condition! I feel oppressed honestly 🙄 tumblr rlly has something against ppl just trying to get to know each other huh? Lol, but at least now we know why it eats them I’ll be sure to try to prevent that in the future

4)And oh my gosh that’s so cool! I’m super jealous!! 😮 lol. I wish they hosted kpop nights at my local bar! 😭😭 But no, I’m here at my little state college in a little 2 mi2 town just under pop 5500 (and idek if that’s before or after counting college students) in the middle of the 'farm zone’ of my state. All we get is country night @Riley’s 😩 RIP. But ya I wish I had more ppl around me who were into kpop! So far I’ve only met 3 ppl who listen to it. One was that roommate I told you about

5)One is just a casual listener who isn’t really into 3rd gen groups and mostly just listens to Girl’s Generation but that’s valid, and one isn’t even rlly a fan of any groups in particular, she just puts the kpop station on when she studies bc she says she needs music but if it’s in English she gets distracted, lol And omg that is insane! $500?? And 5 copies of the same album? 😲 (Says the girl who’s been a Monbebe for a hot 2 months and has already bought three (3??) Monsta X T-shirts… 😂

6)in my defense tho one of them was only $10 bc it was Black Friday? And u can’t blame me, Hot Topic is my krypotonite lmao) but yeah I already feel guilty about spending 30+ dollars on one copy of an album (thx international shipping) That’s so wild. And yeah I don’t get why ppl feel the need go out of their way just to insult other ppl’s music taste. I’m also pretty self conscious abt sharing my music taste and obviously the way everyone around me talks abt kpop has made me even moreso now 🙃

7) I haven’t gotten into too many groups yet bc I’m trying to go slowly and focus on getting into one group at a time but I do have a long list of groups I plan on getting into eventually! NU'EST is one that I’ve heard some of their songs on my Spotify based on my listening history and they’re on the list haha 😂 And omg I feel really similarly about Got7! I tried to get into them after I got into Monsta X and right before I got into Astro and although I did really like some of their songs

8)I haven’t really been able to get into their music as much as MX and Astro’s yet. I do think they seem like a really fun group in terms of personality though. As for the comeback I know right?? I mean I know a lot of ppl were freaking out abt the comeback being a 'sexy’ and how it wasn’t gonna be the same cute Astro we all love anymore. But they filled the MV with flowers and glitter and still managed to make it sexy as fuck! This album has a very different vibe but it still felt like them

9) They managed to pull off a more mature and sexy concept while still staying true to themselves and I’m so here for it! I don’t know if I could really pick a favorite era because I love them all! I mean Spring Up was an excellent era and every era since then has been great. They really don’t know how to have any bad concepts or make any bad songs huh? Lol. Since I’m still pretty new I really love the title tracks since I’ve heard them the most. (I have listened to their full discography

10)But I haven’t listened to their Bsides enough to pick out my favorites from those) I also really love Again though! The first time I saw the dance practice I was super into it and then I looked up the lyrics and was like 'this is supposed to be sad/regretful song it has no reason to be this much of a BOP?!’ 😂 I have such a hard time picking favorites though. Since All Light is new though I actually have listened to it enough times to pick some 'non-title song favorites’ from there haha

11) Other than All Night (which is great, obvi) I also really like Starry Sky, Moonwalk and Role Play 😂 and Bloom is so pretty oh my god! 😭😭 the album is great and has no bad songs but those are the ones I particularly like. I feel u about the dances honestly. I think that’s actually what drew me to kpop initially. I mean I like listening to the songs ofc but it wasn’t until after I actually watched an MV/saw the choreography that I actually was like… Oh shit I’m gonna have to be a fan now

12) It was the visual aspect that really made me want to be a kpop fan bc I haven’t really seen that level of performance with any western music. Which isn’t to say I think all western music is bad but I think it’s really impressive to watch kpop groups singing and also doing really impressive choreography and performing at the same time. Plus that’s the part I can show my family and say 'even if you don’t like the music because of the language barrier you have to admit they’re talented dancers’

13)And yes! With Astro especially I think the dance practices rlly succinctly capture the reason why I love them so much. They are *super* talented but they also have such great chemistry and u can rlly tell that they just love each other and have so much fun together! I love a family of six hardworking dorks! 🤧💗 lol. And yeah it’s too bad that neither of are able to see them this cb ☹️ (I also did the 'hypothetically…’ research but it wouldn’t have worked out 😒) I hope you’re right though!

14)Hopefully the success of this comeback is the catalyst to Astro getting more of the attention they deserve and there will be many more opportunities to see them in the future! (Although it is too bad we won’t be able to see live performances from this cb, since it’s so pretty 😭 tho with their track record I’m sure future cb’s will be just as good lol) But what about you? Do you have any favorite songs from this cb in particular? Talk again soon! (I’ll try 2 b better @ responding 😭) -AHA

FUCKKK okay so after like a million years of midterms + 2 days straight of sleeping ya girl is BACK to answer these asks after getting through the hurdle of copying and pasting and italicizing 14 asks onto one response on my phone. Did I perhaps fail at least 3 of my midterms? Quite probably. Do I have the energy to care atm? No. Did I need to get away from everything and fly to Boston to visit my friend for reading week? Yes.

How did all your exams go? That sounds crazy though! I hope you got through everything ok!

Tbh I have the same unhealthy habits too, I essentially became nocturnal and lived on like one meal a day + snacks and coffee 😭 fr, I would be writing my midterm from 11:30-1:30, go home to eat, sleep from 4-7pm, then wake up to study all night for the next one, and repeat,,,,, I’m like an actual mess tbh

Honestly as much as I’ve enjoyed the Aroha secret admirer thing (it was sooo nice getting to meet new people) rn I’m just so glad that post-reveal we don’t have to deal with tumblr ask limits and writing entire essay responses all in one go.

Honestly 3 shirts isn’t even THAT bad especially if they weren’t all like ordered from overseas so they wouldn’t have been that expensive. When I went to the Myeongdong underground shopping centre I went craaaazy with Kpop merch despite stanning (at that point, pretty much only) BTS for a whole 3 weeks, so I ended up coming back with 2 albums, a bunch of stickers, a photocard pack (also bonus: got an Astro one too) and like a BUNCH of bt21 stuff. Speaking of, my All Light album finally came in!! I ended up getting a Moonbin, MJ, Jinjin, and Sanha photocard plus the a Rocky lyric booklet and ik I basically got THE best set for someone who loves all of them w my whole heart 😩✊ but I’m still sad I didn’t get any Eunwoo cards since he was my first Astro bias 😭 it’s soooooo pretty I love it sm and like lowkey I’ll probably end up buying more of their albums anyway oopsss

Speaking of Monsta X btw, I heard their new song and I thought it was really good! What did you think of it?

Regarding favourite songs, I swear my moods change so much, so it’s pretty common for me to not love a song at first and sort of rediscover it months later, and tbh that’s kind of what happened with Innocent Love, Baby, and Again. In this album though, I’d say my favourite Bsides are probably be Bloom, 1 in a Million, and Heart Brew Love.

And I toootally agree with the performance aspect of kpop being the thing to attract me it, even before I got really into it I’d sometime like to watch dance practices (and lowkey even learned a bunch of choreos a with my friend last term just bc we had access to a frequently empty dance studio). It’s just super impressive to see people singing and dancing at the same time mostly live, and for the same reasons I’m also super into musicals as well, which isn’t so say I think like lip syncing or just dancing/singing is bad, it’s just refreshing to see it done all at once, you know?

Also side story it turns out that I actually DO know another Astro fan irl!! Her older sister (who I’m closer to bc we’re closer in age) is the one who bought the million got7 albums. Even though she’s been a fan of Astro since before debut, her sister doesn’t even know she listens to kpop since she was afraid of getting roasted at first, but now she’s in too deep to say anything. I’d mentioned liking Astro to her before, but she didn’t say anything bc she didn’t want to expose herself in front of her sister but on Friday I saw her while her sister was out and she was like “oh btw here’s a secret I went to the Toronto fanmeet last year but my sister doesn’t know” I was SHOOK but tbh I’m just super glad now to have someone to talk about it and go to concerts with (I’m banking on the fact that they’re coming back)

Anyway, THANK YOU SO MUCH for waiting 2747287482 million years for my response, and it was so great to finally (officially) meet you Kjersten!

@kaptain-k-pop

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#NicoleFromLastNight: A student searching for 'Nicole' emailed 247 people, and they all lived happily ever after

Carlos Zetina emailed 247 Nicoles looking for the one, and a girl gang was formed instead. (Photo: Nicolette Riley)

A first-year student at the University of Calgary in Canada simply wanted to get in contact with a woman he met at a bar, but what he got was much more than he bargained for.

Carlos Zetina bonded with a fellow student named Nicole and helped her and her friend get home Thursday night. And when it came time to exchange numbers, she gave him the wrong one. It could have been the old “give-him-the-wrong-number” blow-off, but Zetina wasn’t worried.

Determined to contact this mysterious woman whose last name he did not get, he went through the entire campus directory the next day and emailed everyone with the name Nicole or something like it, including Nicolettes and Nicks.

The ambitious and thorough student emailed 247 people, including professors, deans, and students.

The subject read, “Met you last night and you gave me the wrong number.” He began the “mass email” by letting Nicole off the hook if she just didn’t want to talk to him. But in case she did, he provided further identifying details, “you’re from Holland and you think Nietzsche is depressing,” and his phone number.

Of the 247 people on that email, many of them shared it on social media, and the hashtag #NicoleFromLastNight was born.

A guy emailed 246 Nicoles trying to find the one he met at a bar and now a bunch of them are friends https://t.co/4mj9qtFzw3 pic.twitter.com/K2hXOE8GX3

— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) September 10, 2018

"He went through all that to find this girl named Nicole I guess." I mean, we've all been through a reply-all email saga or two but this really takes the cake.

My latest @CBCCalgary video after meeting more than a dozen of the #nicolefromlastnight crew. pic.twitter.com/Dx8QIQiINC

— Anis Robert Heydari (@BetamaxRob) September 10, 2018

Then the responses started rolling in.

“I thought it was spam at first,” Nicole DuGraye tells Yahoo Lifestyle. She was at work when she got the email, and her phone “would not stop going off.”

Unfortunately for Zetina, the “original” Nicole was not on this chain. But that didn’t stop “the other Nicoles” from talking.

“It took off right away, and Carlos was almost immediately removed from the chain and it was just the Nicoles,” the University of Calgary undergrad says. And this is how a new girl gang, or the “Network of Nicoles,” was formed. “It was 200 emails long by the end of the day,” DuGraye says.

Nicolette Riley discovered the chain later on. “I was excited by it, I thought it was super funny,” she tells Yahoo Lifestyle. “Everyone was being really lighthearted about it. I thought his original email was really quite genuine,” she says.

Both women said at first the conversation consisted only of jokes, but a bond quickly formed. “I loved all the jokes that were coming through at first, and then it turned into this great Nicole experience,” Riley recalls. “A lot of it was, ‘Will the real Nicole please stand up?’ and asking how he even got all our emails and immediately from there it went to, ‘Let’s form a group, we should all go out,’” DuGraye adds.

So they did.

“People were saying how we should start a club, we should get together, and I wrote in and said, ‘I think this is the greatest origin story of a club ever,’” says Riley, also an undergrad. They took the conversation to Facebook, where DuGraye started the group, “Nicole From Last Night.” It now has over 90 members.

The Nicoles decided to meet up that very evening, but only about 10 of them could make it on such short notice.

And while their email chain was growing, so was their social media presence.

Update, we have gone viral and now have two interviews set up for tomorrow. One with CBC Calgary and one with CityNews. Plus more journalists are reaching out to us about our story. This is seriously the craziest and most incredible thing ever 😂 #nicolefromlastnight @UCalgary

— Nicole (@nicolekr19) September 9, 2018

Met a whole bunch of people with my name, from U of C, the other day… #nicolefromlastnight Warm shout out to Carlos, who united us 🙂 https://t.co/CxooUzin1S

— Nicolette Little (@NicoletteLittl) September 9, 2018

This is the best thing I’ve heard of happening in my many years @UCalgary #nicolefromlastnight https://t.co/VxDlJv8E7J

— Jess Nicol (@Jessticulates) September 9, 2018

Best. Story. Ever. #nicolefromlastnight pic.twitter.com/mdVXV07xRH

— Julie Van Rosendaal (@dinnerwithjulie) September 10, 2018

But the Nicoles didn’t care about that; they were in it for the camaraderie.

“We’re all in different areas of study, from law to medicine to astrophysics, but we are all still excited to be a part of this community and connect in different ways,” Riley gushes. She went to the inaugural Nicole meet up and had a great time.

“We enjoy each other’s company so much that we are getting again together this Friday.” Riley’s birthday also happens to be this Friday, and she’s thrilled that she gets to spend it with her new friends.

It sounds like this support system was much needed by everyone involved. Riley said multiple members have expressed that they’ve never been happier to have a name like Nicole. “It instantly made me feel less lonely on campus,” Riley says. “When you’re on a big campus, you’re obviously surrounded by people all the time but it doesn’t necessarily mean that you feel part of a community or that you’re not lonely. Now we have people that we can reach out to if we want someone to have lunch with, or want to know if someone’s in one of our classes so we have someone to sit with.” She hopes the bond continues to develop, and it looks like it will. “From the messages I’ve been seeing in the Facebook group, everybody just wants this to be a positive thing, we’re so excited to interact and really support each other.”

DuGraye shares her sentiment. “Everyone is so amazing,” she says. “I heard that when everyone went out last week it was so genuine and everyone was so excited to be there. I’m pretty excited to head out and meet people; being on campus, you don’t always meet people.”

DuGraye thinks it could have something to do with the start of the semester. “I think everyone is latching onto this positive light with us all heading back to school.” She says a few of the Nicoles are incoming freshmen, and pointed out that this “bizarre way of meeting” is “a great entry into university.”

You’re probably wondering what happened to the original Nicole. “She wasn’t in the chain because she doesn’t have a university email address. She’s an exchange student at the University of Calgary,” DuGraye explains. Don’t worry, she found her flock. Another Nicole started telling her about this email chain when she realized Zetina’s email was meant for her. “So she found our Facebook group and she sent us a message, we actually got that message while we were at the pub Friday night and we were so excited,” Riley recalls.

The best part is, she wasn’t blowing Zetina off and a match has been made. “She’d only been in Canada about a week so she accidentally gave him the wrong number; she wasn’t totally familiar with the Canadian phone numbers,” DuGraye explains. So, the Nicoles put them in touch. “I think they’re planning on hanging out but this whole situation has blown up so much that I think she’s a little overwhelmed,” she says of Nicole from Holland.

More important, she plans on joining this Friday’s gathering with the rest of the Nicoles. “We are really looking forward to meeting her and having her part of our community,” Riley says. “We’re looking forward to hopefully doing monthly get-togethers, maybe get together to study. Things like that.”