I like doing personal canon more than the other ones :( THIS IS REALLY LONG, SORRY.
1. Once he's in California, it's Donna (and by extension, Josh) he ends up talking to the most. He gets why the others maybe only had time for an email every now and then -- his old friends were good friends, but they were also some of the busiest, most important people in the world. But Donna liked to use her free moments to call him -- the end of her lunch break, the nights she stayed late to watch Josh get something done, the days when she was back home, recovering from her accident alone in her apartment, long bus rides on the campaign. CJ was always suprised, when she did call, at how much he already knew. 2. He's really sick of being called cute. Sometimes he really wishes he could be that guy, the one who just sort of looks at a girl... badda bing badda bang. But he's Sam Seaborn, and somewhere along the way he guesses he figured out he's too dorky to be graded much higher than cute. 3. His English final his freshman year of high school was to write a personal anectote to share with the class. He told a funny story about a trip he had taken to New York -- puzzled over it, and he was really, truly, proud of how pithy he'd made it by the time he brought it in. But by the time they got through the alphabet down to Seaborn, he'd listened to so many of his classmates read out what was actually in their hearts he felt like it jarred completely. He'd never even considered that the people he'd been sitting with all year had actual sorrows -- dead parents, drug addictions, mistresses -- it was something he'd yet to fathom in his own life.
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Date: 2007-12-02 10:40 pm (UTC)1. Once he's in California, it's Donna (and by extension, Josh) he ends up talking to the most. He gets why the others maybe only had time for an email every now and then -- his old friends were good friends, but they were also some of the busiest, most important people in the world. But Donna liked to use her free moments to call him -- the end of her lunch break, the nights she stayed late to watch Josh get something done, the days when she was back home, recovering from her accident alone in her apartment, long bus rides on the campaign. CJ was always suprised, when she did call, at how much he already knew.
2. He's really sick of being called cute. Sometimes he really wishes he could be that guy, the one who just sort of looks at a girl... badda bing badda bang. But he's Sam Seaborn, and somewhere along the way he guesses he figured out he's too dorky to be graded much higher than cute.
3. His English final his freshman year of high school was to write a personal anectote to share with the class. He told a funny story about a trip he had taken to New York -- puzzled over it, and he was really, truly, proud of how pithy he'd made it by the time he brought it in. But by the time they got through the alphabet down to Seaborn, he'd listened to so many of his classmates read out what was actually in their hearts he felt like it jarred completely. He'd never even considered that the people he'd been sitting with all year had actual sorrows -- dead parents, drug addictions, mistresses -- it was something he'd yet to fathom in his own life.