So there's this urban legend I heard once, about this woman who's in an ice cream shop when she notices Jack Nicholson is standing next to her. She plays it cool, completes the ice-cream-for-money exchange, and heads outside -- only to discover that she no longer has her ice cream with her. As she's standing there trying to figure out what on earth has happened, Jack Nicholson walks out of the shop, sidles up to her and whispers, "It's in your purse."
So anyway, last Tuesday found me in the airport, passport and boarding pass in hand, waiting for my delayed flight to Vancouver. I'd just left an embarrasingly smooshy face message on Brian's voicemail when I truned around to discover myself right next to a small family who'd just disesmbarked from the plane I was going to take up to Canada & were sorting out their strollers and such. The mother looked familiar. I checked out the baby. Familiar. I checked out the dad. Familiar.
Ohmigod, y'all. It was Maggie Mason.
I stood there, openmouthed for a moment or so, then rushed away, all star struck and much too shy to say "helloIhaveyourbookandwowyouguysarecuteinreallife." And then I spent fifteen minutes trying to figure out what on earth I'd done with my passport (I'd stuck it between the pages of my book in all the excitement).
In other news, The Ice Cream for Money Exchange is totally the name of my new band.
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You are one of her dozens! :) And I love the band name!
I fly into Salt Lake when I go to visit my parents and every time I do I am haunted by the expectation that I will run into Heather Armstrong of Dooce.
I read that book that you recommended me, Achilles--checked it out from the library as soon as you left that comment, but couldn't get to it until I graduated. Thanks for telling me about it! I really liked it--it made me want to read Homer and go off somewhere to study Classics. So beautiful and poetic and oh, Keats at the end!
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