quiet_tiger | A Little Weirdness

Stupid Mac and the lack of rich text...

You ever have a day in which something just... weird... happens?

There's this girl in both of my classes. Her name is Jenny. She wears a bow in her long hair usually (tonight it was up in pigtails, so no bow), and she twirls a batton as a hobby. She generally takes things too seriously.

Last Monday before class I was eating my dinner, when on nights when I have to be on campus consists of a peanut butter sandwich, chips, cookies, and a can od Pepsi. (I know, I eat like a small child- so sue me). Jenny sat next to me and commented on the lack of jelly on my sandwich. This started a conversation about our general eating habits, generally revolving around whatever is cheap because students fresh out of undergrad have zero cash, and good food is expensive. I mentioned I mostly consume Easy mac, canned ravioli, and canned soup. And Ramen, of course. (I know y'all are terribly interested in this- I can sense you on the edge of your seats).

Anyway, tonight during class- not after, not before, but kind of in a transition between topics as we were settling back down- she hands me a gift bag. Inside is a jar of jelly. And a box of the XL Kraft Easy Mac.

She also rambled on about a great little note she wrote about my peanut butter being lonely and needing jelly. But the note got lost somewhere between the subway and the classroom.

Does this strike anyone else as a little... odd? I mean, what was I supposed to do? Tell her no, I don't want your gift? I can always use more food- though I realy don't like grape *anything* unless it's actually grapes- but I just felt so weird accepting her little gift. It was very generous though, and I will make use of it.

It was just, you know, weird.

In other news, ever since I went away to school, my parents have taken a trip in late September/early October. They now go about a week, week and a half, while when I was still home they just went for a long weekend (their anniversary is in October, so the trips kinda coincide).

One year, either freshman or sophomore year of undergrad, they went away without telling me. I knew they were *going* somewhere, but I didn't know when or where or anything like that. I just got an email from my dad when they were back, telling me that they were back and they had a good time.

I was feeling the love, let me tell you.

Tomorrow my mom is going to meet my dad out there (he had business out there, I guess), and she emailed me with, like, a phone number for where they'll be most of the time, and to email my dad's work if I need them for anything, and a little outline of where they'd be all next week.

Of course, this email was far more detailed than any I've gotten in the last several years, since they didn't tell me they were even going (my mom thought my dad had told me, and he just forgot or something). Just a little more weirdness. Appreciated, so if I do need them I can... reach them... but, just odd.

I know, it's probably bad to think that it's actually weird when your parents actually tell you where they're going. I have mentioned I'm an only child, so it's not like they have 12 kids to remind and I somehow got left off the email list. We don't even have a pet to take care of or anything.

So, yeah, weird classmates and my mom giving me detailed info. Just some quirks to my day.

...Why is the "weird" dragon a fish?

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Odd, very odd.
*hug* I felt like hugging you. but don't think I'm going to buy you jelly now or something....

*G* *hugs back*

No worries, that bottle of jelly will last me *forever* since though I eat my sandwich etc dinner at least three nights a week, I'm only going to use it the two nights a week when I see her...

Ok, the jelly and mac'n'cheese gift is a bit odd...

I would guess that the reason your mom is now giving you full contact info is that now you're *totally* on your own. If something bad happened to you in undergrad, you had a whole institution of safety nets, whereas now you don't. So that's my explanation. Of course, it's also perfectly possible that she has been replaced by a pod person. It happens.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking, too. I have my roommates, who are never home, and my friends in the area, all of whom still live an hour or so away by public transportation.

And she emailed me earlier in the week to tell me about a movie she saw that she knew I wanted to see, too, so unless she was abducted in the last two days, she's okay. But thanks for the idea.

The giftie - nice, but definitely odd. If you were close friends and it had come up in conversation, it would be a funny shared thing, but ... simply being classmates is a different thing. However, I've learned that some people just aren't sure how to interact when they're trying to make friends, so maybe it's just that. *hugs*

I've met this girl maybe ten times- 8 classes and maybe one or two interactions during orientation. And it was just weird. And I don't know how to make friends (unless the conversation somehow revolves around TV), but I don't give people food. I'm not a stray cat that you want to have come back so you leave it a saucer of milk. (I know that you view me as a stray, but you don't leave me food. Positive reinforcement, yes. Food, no.)

And, dude, I haven't yet had a chance to listen to the Batman song because the library comps don't have speakers, and I'm using my comp today but I'm a dumbass and I forgot to bring my headphones with me.

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