On chance meetings
Jan. 28th, 2005 01:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
e_clareClass officially started in South Hadley on Wednesday, but I was lucky enough, by virtue of being a part-time Smithie, to have class on Tuesday in Northampton. I puttered around the Smith bookstore before my class, seeking notebooks and breakfast. For the record, the Smith store sells books (I know!) in addition to sparkly purple women's college hoodies and "In Your Dreams" t-shirts -- I think I'm jealous.
I grabbed a legal pad and some juice, and paused en route to check out so that another student could get past. She stopped, apparently waiting for me to pass her, and I recognized her an instant before she realized who I was. EJ and I were always friendly in high school -- never friends, since she was a year ahead and ran with a different crowd, but we were on the same final French Club voyage to Cannes and Paris. I'd seen her a couple of times since she graduated, when I went home or visited other people at AU, and we were pleasant, but again -- not friends.
However, she has earned the title of Person I'm Most Likely To Meet Under Random and Unlikely Circumstances. Several of us went down to NYC for Fall Break 2003 and meandered around for a Saturday. No one was more shocked than me when on the subway into Chinatown, somebody tapped me on the shoulder. I was confused: last I'd heard, she was studying at American in DC and loving it. Tuesday, I was equally confused, since she'd taken the year off to do AmeriCorps/Human Rights Campaign work in NY; she's not normally on my GHS radar, and what with being out of the country, even more people than usual dropped out of my range of knowledge this fall.
So anyway, there I was on Tuesday morning, standing in the Smith bookstore and trying to process how the hell EJ was standing in front of me, yet again, in Western Mass of all places -- a region in which I never expect to see anyone from home. Long story short, she started at Hampshire in the fall, and now I have a Tuesday bus buddy. She still seems too cool for me, but this is definitely a Valley contact worth pursuing. Clearly, these meetings are fulfilling some greater cosmic purpose -- and who am I to mess with the cosmos?
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I grabbed a legal pad and some juice, and paused en route to check out so that another student could get past. She stopped, apparently waiting for me to pass her, and I recognized her an instant before she realized who I was. EJ and I were always friendly in high school -- never friends, since she was a year ahead and ran with a different crowd, but we were on the same final French Club voyage to Cannes and Paris. I'd seen her a couple of times since she graduated, when I went home or visited other people at AU, and we were pleasant, but again -- not friends.
However, she has earned the title of Person I'm Most Likely To Meet Under Random and Unlikely Circumstances. Several of us went down to NYC for Fall Break 2003 and meandered around for a Saturday. No one was more shocked than me when on the subway into Chinatown, somebody tapped me on the shoulder. I was confused: last I'd heard, she was studying at American in DC and loving it. Tuesday, I was equally confused, since she'd taken the year off to do AmeriCorps/Human Rights Campaign work in NY; she's not normally on my GHS radar, and what with being out of the country, even more people than usual dropped out of my range of knowledge this fall.
So anyway, there I was on Tuesday morning, standing in the Smith bookstore and trying to process how the hell EJ was standing in front of me, yet again, in Western Mass of all places -- a region in which I never expect to see anyone from home. Long story short, she started at Hampshire in the fall, and now I have a Tuesday bus buddy. She still seems too cool for me, but this is definitely a Valley contact worth pursuing. Clearly, these meetings are fulfilling some greater cosmic purpose -- and who am I to mess with the cosmos?
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Date: 2005-01-28 05:49 pm (UTC)interesting thought.
if she wants to know about americoprs, she can call me.
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