Linus askew

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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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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.

:)

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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.