Back and Forth February 27, 2008
Posted by Katie Oh in : Such As , trackback“when i worked here,” nicky told me as we were in barnes & noble dropping off my application for summer employment, “people used to come in and scream about our political book displays. they’d accuse us of having too left-leaning book displays. my manager would sometimes go over and show them ‘here’s a liberal book, here’s a conservative book’ to prove that we were being fair.”
“i would have just told them that it isn’t barnes & noble’s fault that liberals read.” i told her.
i went home this past weekend to drop off applications, sleep, recharge. i accomplished… turning in my applications. oh dear. i still haven’t made it to health and counseling to get blood work done. i don’t even remember what running on 100% feels like. i don’t remember the last time i did it. i’m trying to drink more juice and sleep more normally.
i saw most of my family this weekend — the lavelles — and it was really great. seth, nicky’s baby, is the cutest chubby little baby. when we were at brunch, he just kept eating and eating. when he was finished, he pointed to the buffet, as if to say, “more!” it was absolutely precious. lisa, nicky’s sister, has a little girl named mazzie who only eats from an extremely limited selection of food — cheese, bread, peanut butter, milk — and she refused to eat a waffle that had syrup on it instead of peanut butter. i shoveled down cheese blintzes covered in too-sweet strawberry topping.
we had an oscar party, which involved snack food and mimosas and many mentions of james garner (what do you mean he’s not jennifer garner’s dad?) it was pretty delightful despite the fact that the ceremony itself was lackluster.
i came back in a flurry of general confusion and irritation — delayed flights, cab drivers who don’t know where pratt is, only having got 2 hours of sleep the night before — and still plugged through my day. i missed everyone so much, it was absurd. just seeing the faces of my friends here, it makes me feel better.
matt is coming in six days. i cannot explain how excited i am. he has been my one constant from this summer to this school year. it’s so amazing to be able to have someone like that in your life. we are going to nintendo world (for the pokemon center, obviously) and to see spamalot. he gets to come see me read at adrian and robert’s reading series. it will be great to have someone be able to experience what i do here. what i’m doing here, the change i am creating, the dynamic.
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