�My goals? I think a big one for me is�� While her voice continued, my attention to her words did not. Instead, I found myself transfixed by the loops and whirls her hands made while she explained her rationale.

�Do you always do that with your hands when you�re talking to someone?� I ask bluntly, interrupting Sonya in mid sentence. She furrows her brow in response, glances outside of the teashop and toward the Cambridge street corner across from us. �Yes. It�s just something I do� anyway, what are your thoughts on Cambridge and Boston so far, hon? I see you�re dressed for the part�� she says with a smirk and a nod toward my clothing. A shirt, adorned with a large replica of the human heart on the front, I found maybe five years ago among my father�s belongings and a blue Dallas Cowboys hoody that displays a big star on the front when zipped up. According to Sonya, this was hardly Harvard dress material.


�� It�s aiight. I mean� I�m not really looking forward to taking classes again. This was the best summer in a long, long time� I got to spend time with my kid sister mostly and that was the best part.� Honestly, that really was the best part� I showed her how to cook, fight, and play first person shooters. She showed me what it meant to be home again. I miss that. �That, and my mom, too.. I�ll miss my whole family. I�ll miss the whole state, I suppose�� and with that, Sonya sighs. A Texan by birth herself, she has since enthusiastically relocated to Boston to don the mantle of �Educator.� She�s now a High School English Teacher. Her love for our home state is minimal. �Yeah, yeah, yeah.. I get it, you love Texas. Get over it, love, �cause you�re very far from home now� so what do you hope to accomplish when this whole thing is over and done with, Mr. Harvard Law School?�

Oh my gosh I have you beat. 154 wpm. yo.
» The-Muffin-Man on 2010-08-29 09:40:53

K fine 153.

Every time I come here, it's always a different girl...
» The-Muffin-Man on 2010-08-29 09:41:59

i know right? -.- what year are you?
» Jinaiah on 2010-08-29 11:16:59

I don't know if people usually comment on what you say, but I like how you make every person seem special. Interesting. Because really, we all are, it's just a question of how.

Anyway, I hope you answered her well.

re: Oh, that explains it all. Of course.
Except I think she would just talk to you herself. :P She's been trying to wrangle me a man every chance she gets.
» Unicornasaurus on 2010-08-30 07:43:10

They were forever ruined for me when I found it out as well :(
» Midnight on 2010-08-31 01:51:30

Gotta have love for the home state. When I moved here I used to wear a t-shirt and a ski jacket all the time in the winter, with ski tags hanging off the zipper, because that's what we do in Colorado. But people kept making fun of me "Did you just get off the slopes?"... so eventually I had to buy a poseur wardrobe of cardigans and long wool coats and scarves and LAYERS... it was horrible. Just to fit in. Real shoes, not just sneakers... BOOTS!

The story on my blog is part of a short story I am writing.
» Zanzibar on 2010-08-31 10:04:13

re: Playing hardball is not fun
I have a friend who won't know which way to turn if you don't tell him explicitly, and now he is just taking my help for granted. =(

I took a hiatus from work and the way I reconnected with my family.... I would choose to live through the broke days again

» Ches on 2010-09-01 08:27:55

re: 1) Hey now. Hey. My parents are northerners, and they're pretty good at cooking. Not as good as me, since I learned in the dirty South, but pretty good.

2) Oh why thank you! I try to believe that I don't have any trouble finding men, but admittedly it is a bit harder in an all-female college.

3) Well, hey, I didn't know that comment would be so rare. No problem.
» Unicornasaurus on 2010-09-01 11:02:35

OMFG YOU WATCH VICTORIOUS TOO?! *screams* ISN'T BECK THE MOST PERFECT BOYFRIEND EVER?!

Yes, he's from Victorious. He's brown, a Canadian ++

*AAAA* Okay fine. I'll make it so that you have to press play LOL.
» peanutmelon on 2010-09-03 11:57:44

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