I'm sitting at Starbucks logging to free nationwide wireless. OK, it's only 11Mbps but I think I'll live. I just won't be downloading any HEROES off iTunes in the next hour or so. If the sun weren't blazing away outside I could easily think I were in some other country. There's a mixture of skin and hair colours and accents in here - and lots of laptops.A guy in a Delta Kappa Epsilon T shirt just walked in, reminding me that I haven't seen anyone in a frat T shirt for a long time. I can't believe I used to cover fraternities and sororities for the university newspaper. A little foreign girl, fresh off the plane, with fewer prejudices than the rest of the reporters at the Bruin maybe? But uh...I had just seen Animal House and Revenge of the Nerds. I was definitely on the nerds' side. And probably on the nerdy side as well. Yep, that was me in California.
This morning I woke up listening to Terry Gross on Fresh Air played off my iPod. A couple of hours later I felt like I should have been on my way to the Tarrytown train station to catch the Metro North into Manhattan.
My ex roommate in California. Fahti, who now lives in Menlo Park, just had a birthday this week. I sent her an e-card telling I've just been back from a hectic India two-cities-in-two-days work trip, and I added "we've been friends for TWENTY years can you believe it?" And she replied and said it's been MORE than 20 years. She expects me...the only Asian in a college remedial math class...to know how to count?)
And by the way, she said, her daughter's first grade teacher also likes this Persian chicken/ pomegranate rice dish called Fessenjoon that Fahti cooked for me the last time I saw her. I miss Fahti a lot. She was soooo part of my growing up. She was was there through my first apartment, my first boyfriend, my first major heartbreak (different guy). OK, she warned me, I never listened.
When we were teenagers we used to joke about babysitting each other's kids one day.
In her email last week Fahti said she sometimes envies my travelling. I told her I envy her having her two beautiful kids.
