Saturday, October 08, 2005
It's been a strange day. My alarm woke me up at 11:30 p.m. and I got redressed. We piled into Matt's big boat of a red crushed velvet stud mobile. I felt lucky. We watched the movie with our feet up and he held my hand during the scary parts. The plot was full of gaping holes, partially because we sat in the wrong theater for a long time and thus missed the beginning. I felt happy.
Earlier in the evening I was privvy to the most exciting secret plans I've ever passed up, and when we trade stories in the morning they will have every reason to be frustrated with me, and I will have every reason to feel like a fool.
I got an e-mail from my mom, which is in itself a rare treat. She capitalized all of the letters. It's so intense. ESPECIALLY THE PART WHEN SHE SAYS, "YOUR DAD AND I HAVE BEEN VERY BUSY THIS PAST WEEK TRYING TO GET SOME HOUSE PROJECTS DONE. WE HAD A TREE REMOVED AND TWO TRIMED. WE ALSO SIGNED A CONTRACT TO GET THE HOUSE
SIDED WHICH PROBABLY WON'T HAPPPEN TIL AROUND CHRISTMAS TIME."
During my radio show, J. came in and we had a sweet little chat. Chat is a light word. It was insight into what it means to be a student here, and it was hopes and fears about the future. I didn't say much. I listened and I wanted to suggest that we become better friends. I mostly want to suggest that to anyone who will look me in the eye, so what does that tell us?
I was paid to work on my paper for two hours, and I'm even more convinced than ever that I have found the number one best job on campus.
And on my way to class I saw two things:
1.They put down sod and grass in a square on Emerson Street. ON the street, and they taped it off, and put a podeum there. My professor for the class I was walking to greeted me, going the opposite direction and laughed, "Do you think it'll take?" (Apparently, for the ground breaking ceremony later in the afternoon, they put fake asphalt ON the grass that was on the street so that the important people could "break" it with gold-plated shovels and pick axes.)
2. A jet-black helicopter in the middle of Pearsons quad. Yeah, maybe it crushed a few students. Maybe. But DEFINITELY no one mistook the status symbol. Not even the slightly lesser trustees. At 1:00pm, we gathered around to watch it lift off and buzz away.
Earlier in the evening I was privvy to the most exciting secret plans I've ever passed up, and when we trade stories in the morning they will have every reason to be frustrated with me, and I will have every reason to feel like a fool.
I got an e-mail from my mom, which is in itself a rare treat. She capitalized all of the letters. It's so intense. ESPECIALLY THE PART WHEN SHE SAYS, "YOUR DAD AND I HAVE BEEN VERY BUSY THIS PAST WEEK TRYING TO GET SOME HOUSE PROJECTS DONE. WE HAD A TREE REMOVED AND TWO TRIMED. WE ALSO SIGNED A CONTRACT TO GET THE HOUSE
SIDED WHICH PROBABLY WON'T HAPPPEN TIL AROUND CHRISTMAS TIME."
During my radio show, J. came in and we had a sweet little chat. Chat is a light word. It was insight into what it means to be a student here, and it was hopes and fears about the future. I didn't say much. I listened and I wanted to suggest that we become better friends. I mostly want to suggest that to anyone who will look me in the eye, so what does that tell us?
I was paid to work on my paper for two hours, and I'm even more convinced than ever that I have found the number one best job on campus.
And on my way to class I saw two things:
1.They put down sod and grass in a square on Emerson Street. ON the street, and they taped it off, and put a podeum there. My professor for the class I was walking to greeted me, going the opposite direction and laughed, "Do you think it'll take?" (Apparently, for the ground breaking ceremony later in the afternoon, they put fake asphalt ON the grass that was on the street so that the important people could "break" it with gold-plated shovels and pick axes.)
2. A jet-black helicopter in the middle of Pearsons quad. Yeah, maybe it crushed a few students. Maybe. But DEFINITELY no one mistook the status symbol. Not even the slightly lesser trustees. At 1:00pm, we gathered around to watch it lift off and buzz away.
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