When I told people where I was going to grad school they would inevitably go off on how attractive everybody is out here and how I was going to find some moody rockstar harvard poet physicist that would finally do me in.
No, I would tell them, I am going to Boston as a student. I am going to study.
Well, class hasn't started yet and I'm afraid I have already fallen victim to not one, but 2 (TWO!) beautiful Bostonians. It happened yesterday when all my plans to bike up to the temple and get pretty much anything done were foiled by lots and lots of rain. So, after more than half the day stuck inside I decided to run (I don't have an umbrella yet) to the thrift store down my street and check it out. It is a really great thrift store because it is Jewish but you don't have to be Jewish to shop there (you just have to wear a yamacca) and they have lots of crazy junk, just how I like it.
Anyway, I was doing fine--I avoided eye contact with the beautiful black man with dreds (long beautiful ones) who works there and I thought I was in the clear when suddenly I saw one of them. He was just kind of hanging out in the electronics department (to use the term loosely--mostly remote controls and old hair dryers) with this look like he had no one in the world. It broke my heart and when I saw his cute little rainbow stripe I fell in love. A couple seconds after the big blow I realized that he wasn't alone--he had a brown friend, equally lonely and equally beautiful. I totally lost it. What can I say...I am human? I knew I had to make them mine. The good news, I guess, is that they were only 5 bucks a piece, cheaper than the collection I left in Provo. And since all of this crazy business of love is taken care of early, now I can really focus on the important stuff.
like school.
-meErin
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