Linus askew

[rackmount]

Linus askew
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Thanksgiving was spent with my folks, and we had a very nice time.

Weirdly, I ended up meeting someone I had known at Smith, in fact, I'd written an article on a play she did, and she was best friends at Smith with a girl I grew up with.

I didn't recognize her at first. I spoke with her mother first, who said the family was Polish, and indicated they were involved in the theater scene in Poland. I mentioned I knew someone in the Polish theater scene, and did she know someone named Sawka. I AM SAWKA! she said. and her daughter, whom I had known at Smith, had just moved to Troy and her parents were visiting. It was so crazy. She married a quiet engineering type, thankfully. She's a bit of a diva and not so interested in sharing the spotlight. But lots of fun and smart.

Last weekend was a cousin wedding in Ohio. TOo much happened to recount, will write later.

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[rackmount.livejournal.com]

thanks! i like that picture. that's from my folks' place, which is much more grand than ours. we have a pretty simple little place, nothing fancy, although i like it.

[rackmount.livejournal.com]

yeah, i grew up with those. dad found two of them used, really nice vintage 20s/30s finds, and the last one is a bust of louis the ??'s mistress, that they inherited from my grandmother and is of questionable vintage (could be mad old, could be less so).

i'm jealous, of course.

Dad didn't find them

[tccstend.livejournal.com]

He found one of them. I found the other in the French Room at the rummage sale. Just say'n... The marble bust is 19th century European tourist trash.

[(Anonymous)]

So you saw Hanna the Elder? (She is such a nice lady.) Where did you meet her? That is so very, very bizarre.
-gk

[rackmount.livejournal.com]

it was seriously weird. there's a lady in troy who has a community thanksgiving, and my parents often go. this year, the sawka's showed up, hanna's parents (characters both of them) as well as hanna, her husband and her kid. it was really nice to see them, hanna and i talked about you a bit. her dad ended up talking with my mother without knowing about any connection, and he came over to me and said "that woman is a great lady" without knowing it was mom. so again, very strange.

maybe with all of us out here, might be time for you to visit? :)

[(Anonymous)]

wow... It does not get much more bizarre than that.
I assume that you mean Troy, NY? I just sent a card to her in Columbus not too long ago, and it looks like there is a Troy, OH. (How far is Troy from Kingston?)
Not to get gossipy, but: We had a falling out a few years back. (I did not like studying in Poland, and I think that she took it personally.) I have, however, made efforts to make amends. Did it sound as though she is over the grudge?
I would, indeed, like to make a visit back to the east coast... and C randomly expressed an interest to see NYC (the girl loves maps). It's near the top of our destinations list. I'll keep you abreast, should we make any plans.

[rackmount.livejournal.com]

I didn't realize you and she had a falling out. She mentioned what you're talking about, but it didn't sound angry or anything, just hurt and not really getting why you decided what you decided. But there was no indication of any deep anger, and she did say she had missed seeing you.

We have a guest bedroom anytime you want to come, and as of January, I'll have a room in brooklyn that i stay in during the week, but is open on the weekend.

:)

[(Anonymous)]

that's good to hear. yeah, she loved poland and thrived negotiating the communist-style bureaucracy. i hate wasting time like that, but mainly i couldn't stand the cold and gray (in december, we're talking 3 hours of "not darkness", and apparently i have that seasonal affect disorder). i couldn't envision enduring it for an additional 4+ years. (especially since i would have run out of money after the first year.) i went back to pick up some stuff from the dorms a few years later, in the peak of summer, and even on what must have been the city's annual cloudless day, lodz was still a craphole.
your offer of guest quarters makes an east coast journey even more tempting and feasible!
i'm glad to hear that you found an apartment to make your life easier.