It was chilly on Wednesday night. The wind was whipping around Huntington Ave.. I decided to get out of the lab to do some paperwork. I took the 66 bus up to Allston for some spicy Korean seafood noodle soup.
As I unwrapped myself from my scarf, hat, gloves, coat, and fleece vest I nodded to the waitress held up my finger indicating I would be dining alone that night. She spoke to me in Korean, and when I responded in English I could see the wheels clicking in her head. "That girl is Chinese."
I take out a stack of scientific journal articles I need to read. My soup comes out pretty quickly so it is a delicate balance of slurping and reading. Little red splashes landed all over my papers.
I was half way through my meal when I saw a girl wave. I waved back, but without my glasses I had no idea who she was. Crap. It was one of my former students. She walked over to my table with a boy. She introduced me to her boyfriend. And then she said, "Oh are you reading papers?"
"Ummm...Yes," I replied.
"Guess there is a lot of work in grad school," she said. I saw a glint of pity in her eye. "So what did you order?
"Ummm....noodle soup." I replied.
The waitress asks if my former student and her date want to sit at the table next to me.
"No, I think we will sit there," she said while pointing to a table across the room. "Right?[she says in my direction] you seem to have a lot of reading to do."
"Ummm...yeah, I got to finish this stuff, " I lied. "Well enjoy your dinner and ...." I could not think of a good way to end the conversation so I blurted out, "....don't forget there is a Lunar Eclipse tonight."
Doh!
5 comments:
Hahahahahahaha.
what's nerdy about that? that's a perfectly reasonable thing to say. maybe even a cool thing to say. i was so psyched about the lunar eclipse and about saturn being visible next to the moon. but alas, the cloud cover was not cooperating with me.
Doh is right. That's really unfortunate. The good news is that i still think you're cool, and my whole family loved you- even my 21 yr old brother. Being friendly and outgoing is more imporatant than being cool.
important. See evil? No spell check sucks.
who's nerdy? sounds like she was little green of your intelligence and didn't want to me reminded that she can't read all that well so went across the room.
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