gossip

We went straight to the store when we arrived. We decided upon a bag of salt and vinegar chips.

We returned the books.  We put them in the assistant's office. Being there again I became sad at the memory of all the hours I spent there that were now gone. I remembered that only one year ago I was practically living there. The office is getting more and more cluttered. We stood in the office for a while. I was feeling bad about not leaving a thank you note.

A platinum blond, very sullen looking Layla greeted us with a dead blank stare and barely a "hello." James was there too from Petersborough.  Apparently (I know this from Maxine) he recently left his wife and is thinking about returning to law school. Last night he told me he applied at University of Virginia-Arlington. I was reminded that he and Maxine and I ate some really great Vietnamese food one night a few years ago.

The main reason for this gossip column is to tell you about Fred's girlfriend, whom he introduced to me as such. Her name is Lori and at first glance she's definitely attractive but Colin described her as a "fake trophy girlfriend."  There is something quirky, sort of cool-but-quirky, sort of odd about her. She is absolutely more outgoing than Cindy was, for sure.

Anyway Carl was there. I talked to Kim Kelly. Elisha was there and super weird. Apparently she's moving to Riceton, VA to live in her sister's empty house. She and Max won't live together because her family would disown her. Kim and Scott bought a house near Dan and Max moved in with them.

Steve and Maxine were there. Steve was cute; he asked about you and was telling me about teaching and stuff. I drank a lot of sparkling water. I saw Carl; he's teaching 2 classes at UV-A. I asked him if he sees Trent and he said that Trent is having a hard time teaching advanced classes. (Trent wasn't there.)

Then we went over to Emporium Villa where they were having a trinket sale. Rochelle had a table, Karla and Dan shared a table. (Uri was there; Colin got to meet him finally.) Ashley had a table. Apparently Paul is declaring that SinCity can no longer be called "sincity" but "Singular Cityscape". In fact, it was told to me that he answers the phone: "Hello, The Center.." and Steve said, "Yeah, the CENTER of the universe!"

Colin and I ate at the pizza place. I thought of you.