Nicole

kay, I have zero time for this but I’m still dying of laughter… The crazies they seek me out.

(By the way, can I just say I could have murdered Alina when she refused to take my homework? Yeah, I so would have taken 2.5 precious hours out of my paper-writing time to answer stupid questions about the reading if I’d known nothing was due til Thursday.)

Okay, so I went to Russian class, went to Russian tea, then ran over to the Anglomania of the Tsars lecture, even though I had to sit by Gospodin Makin and he kept trying to pipe up and correct other people about Russia. Total brownie point score though.

Then, I’m leaving the Int’l Institute, waiting at the M bus stop on South U, not the M of A but the other one, standing with about 5 other girls, and some older people were seated. This souped-up mid-90s black Cadillac slowed to idle speed as it passed us. Blues music was blaring out of it, and a 60-year-old black guy in a cowboy hat was nodding along with it and grinning at us. I think he was even trying to get the car to rock like in a rap video.

He drove past and we all just burst out laughing. Then one of the older women came out from the shelter and said conspiratorially, “I think he was trying to pick one of you up!” Which was even funnier.

Should I:

A) Skip Sociology because it’s too early and I haven’t done the readings and section is a total waste of time anyway?

B) Skip Dostoevsky because the only work I don’t like and can never read all the way through is Notes From Underground?

C) Skip Russian because I don’t feel ready for this test?

D) Skip English and go to the study abroad Australia meeting?

E) Skip English and go home, because we never do anything anyway?

F) Skip all of the above, go to STA Travel and drop the $548 on a one-way ticket to Australia?

Or any combination of the above?

It’s a safe guess that you’re asleep
That’s all I know of you now
Whatever your new vantage point
I still want to work somehow

Cold chills bring my remembrances
At the same time joy renews
Questions unasked and unanswered
Warm, inviting, sizzling fuse

Blind in daily discomfiture
How slackening was my grip
while I was dreaming of riding
and booking an ego trip

Your curse for being my saviour
I want to start to insist
Is saving me eternally
Breathing is always a risk

If you gave me a tuning fork
would any of this ring true
If I moved the world and myself
Would any of that move you?