End of an Era
We’re down to the wire. Today is our last day together in the apartment. Laura will be off to Indiana and I will be bumming around the Bay Area until I go to Spain on the 19th. Both of our lives took unexpected turns in the last couple of months we had together. We’ve spent more time apart lately than we have in the past year and a half. I think it was our way of preparing for the shock of the move.
When you spend as much time together as we did, especially last summer, you get to know a person pretty well. Our lives are so intertwined that most of our post-Peace Corps memories involve each other. Ups and downs, big surprises and new paths we never saw ourselves taking have arisen in our time together. I feel like Laura knows me better than anyone ever has. I never have to explain a back-story or give her my rationale for my actions, she already knows. I trust her completely.
Even though I know we will always be friends, it’s just not going to be the same when she leaves. I won’t be able to tell her about my bus rides home. We won’t have our marathon philosophizing sessions. We won’t have our long walks. I won’t say good morning and goodnight to her everyday. It just won’t be the same.
Still, I feel so incredibly lucky to have had this time together. Laura has completely changed my outlook on life and encouraged me to open up and be myself. She is there for me no matter how many times I make the same mistakes. She is the most understanding and insightful person I know. I feel privileged to call her my best friend.
I know that Laura will be successful in whatever she pursues. I look forward to visiting her in Indiana and, of course, Sakartvelo. We’ll still be blogging together and I’ll be calling her often (she’ll probably get sick of my calls), but even though our friendship won’t end tomorrow, this does mark the end of an era.
Please enjoy this retrospective, mainly for our own benefit:
This is gonna be it. Yes, Universe…we’re ready
The Long Tail
მოწყენილი და მთრალი ვარ
And what are you by profession?
A peddler
And what do you peddle?
Goods.
Be Gone! You may not peddle goods here.
Emily: What should we do?
Emily: Want to watch TV?
Laura: ehh
Emily: We’re so…
Laura: …
Laura: I dunno what
Laura: so…
Emily: We could talk
Emily: We could have a talk
L: We’re both pregnant. Fuck it, man.
I: Jesus Christ. You’re right.
Emily: I think we should get dressed up for our business meeting.
Me: Are we even going to wear shoes?
Emily: Even shoes!
Laura says: hey have you checked out our blog?
MDR says: i looked briefly once
MDR says: i thought it looked dangerous
Laura says: dangerous?
Laura says: why?
MDR says: getting inside your heads? the two of you together? it would be overwhelming
I: Time froze for a year. I don’t want that to happen.
L: Well, it would be weird. I’ll give you that. Like hey, I’m conscious of the passage of time, are you?
L: It’s like the worstly navigatable site I’ve ever seen.
E: That was like the worstly navigatable sentence I’ve ever heard. Is that even a word?L: Oh, I just made that up.
J: Well we will make ours better for the sake of money.
E: MONEY!
L: Who do I care if I’m late?
E: Who DO you care?
L: WHO do I care?
E: Why is everyone at your work quitting?
L: Going to hell that place is.
E: Do you like how I eat the sesame seeds off my Ak Maks first?
L: Mm hmm. I do like that.
L: Not a lot.
L: You know what I really need to steal, some of those yellow note pads. Those are useful in a business setting, right?
E: Maybe I’m Truman Capote reincarnated.
L: Why do you say that?
E: The movie said he died in 1984.
L: Yes, but there probably isn’t any time in the universal soul, so you could be anyone. Why would you be him?
E: I don’t know, but I couldn’t be say, Frank Sinatra because he died when I was alive.
L: Yes, but if there really is no time, you could be.
E: Maybe I’m you!!!
I think I can take my life to the next level. I just can’t be lazy and not do it. — L
I purposely try not to hear of things. — L
OMG. I’m posting on your wall and I’m sitting next to you! - L
