home and chocolate fountains
on sunday my dorm building threw a 70s-themed party in the "broome room" (we live on broome street...) and my suitemates and i went just for the chocolate fountain. it was my first experience with a chocolate fountain, and i discovered that there is no way to eat chocolate-covered pineapple rings and strawberries and marshmallows and pretzels without looking like a glutton. it's the kind of thing where i turned to hamna afterward to ask if i had any chocolate on my lips and she replied, "no, but you have some on your chin."
i thought it'd be wonderful to have three completely free days to do whatever i wanted in the city, but when it came down to it, i just got antsy to come home. so it worked out when my mom called to say that it was supposed to pour rain on friday (when i was originally supposed to move out), so would i not mind coming home thursday instead? no, i would not mind. the thing is, so many of my friends actually had finals when i was gloriously free, so it's not like i could have done stuff with them. plus, going about whole days alone reminds me too much of the lonely beginning of the school year. it's funny; i used to have all my meals alone. last tuesday, i had every meal with at least one other person. whew.
i spent my last day, wednesday, bouncing between uptown and downtown, meeting at the gray dog cafe with my cousin and casey, having dinner with katie at fordham, and then going to think coffee with (a different) katie. there were no seats so we sat at the bar, her with some actual coffee concoction, and me with coke in a glass bottle, because when you find coke in a glass bottle, you have to drink it. it just tastes better. i don't even really like coke and i do that.
saying goodbye to my suitemates was really sad, much sadder than i predicted. jenn was the first to go, and she's a very sentimental person, so she constantly asked on her last day, "guys, can we sit around tonight and say nice things about each other?" and we're all like, "okay, yeah, sure, jenn." but we actually did it, and oh man, i realized how much i was going to miss the lovely ladies of 211, who i have lived with for the past eight/nine months. i don't know why hearing things like, "remember that month when lisa was obsessed with tim upstairs, and she'd randomly run out of our room to go tell him she loved him, and hamna had to stop her in the elevator and drag her back, every time?" made me sad, but it did.
i had one last lunch with joanna and maria and rekha, and nikki and molly came to say goodbye, and then joanna helped me move out while my mom got a parking ticket. we hit so much traffic on the way home that it took three hours to drive back, and the whole time i missed the city so much it hurt.
buuuuuut i was back the next day on the train to run my last peer health exchange workshop of the year, and it's a good thing it was the last, 'cause it was one of the worst ones. i had to go through metal detectors to get in and then there was a mix-up with the kids and the classes and arrrgghhhh and one of the boys wouldn't give me his survey back at the end of the period, and i was just like, "please give me the survey back." and there were so many kids absent for reasons like "it's raining, so he won't come" and "he's ten to life", and i feel bad for them, but i wish they wouldn't make my job difficult.
that night i baked cookies at jill's for aimee's birthday, and we sat around jill's kitchen for about four hours with nick and alison and ashley and aimee and talked and it was so nice. the next day i saw "made of honor" with my sister, which was cute and enjoyable, especially since i saw so many parallels between hannah and myself. she works at the met--my dream job! she's a vegetarian! she likes scottish guys! that night i met up with lauren ryan and justin at starbucks before heading to my house and joining nick and alison and jill to go to carvel after it was closed. we ate free ice cream and sat on the counters and listened to the fratellis and red hot chili peppers and talked.
now that i don't have to read anything for school, i'm reading the most pop culture book ever--angels and demons by dan brown. and i am just drinking it in.