orangeheart

how to meet people.

ï¿½ i invited jane to my birthday party in third grade & she, along with all the other guests, spent the night terrorizing me & eating all the chocolate out of my advent calendar.

ï¿½ i met ananikko the first night of GSA when she was wearing a patchwork dress & holding dubbed hï¿½sker dï¿½ tapes in her tiny hands & i went to talk to her about them.

ï¿½ i met aaron the cellist seven years ago today at an orchestra rehearsal because he (get this) wrote me a poem. it was horrific. i knew it then, too.

ï¿½ my first memory of lady J is this: she is slouchedly sitting in her chair in a p j harvey t-shirt telling our teacher, who had asked about the shirt, "it's a band."

ï¿½ i met jojo at scholarship interviews at various colleges in ohio, & then i met him again when we both ended up at kenyon. go figure.

ï¿½ i met teclo outside her advisor's office on the first day of school. i decided to talk to her because she was sitting on the floor. (she had on a flowery skirt. heee.)

ï¿½ i stood behind chris waiting in line to get our student ID pictures taken. he was very loudly talking with his indianapolis friends.

ï¿½ addie moved onto my hall freshman year & i had a crush on her before i met her so i went to say hello while she was unpacking. she was standing on a chair putting some things on a high shelf & i walked up & stuck my arm straight out from my body, robotlike to offer my hand & said in a too-loud voice, "hi! i'm ricka! i'm from kentucky!" & somehow she liked me anyway, for a while at least. sigh. [[note:: this is the single most asinine way i have ever met someone in my life. i am utterly embarrassed to this day.]]

ï¿½ i met bean through ananikko & matthew, while she was living in vermont & i of course was in ohio. i was smitten more or less immediately & started spelling words the way she spelled them.

ï¿½ i met shelley because she was friends with a girl we were crushing, & we saw the two of them sitting in the adirondack chairs outside mcbride & we accosted them & talked for a good long time before i said, "i have to call a cuban woman in vermont now" & took my leave.

ï¿½ dave made jeff sit with us at lunch because he (jeff) was wearing an earth crisis t-shirt.

ï¿½ mischka was jojo's roommate freshman year, & they hated each other.