There is this girl that I know from high school that works somewhere [for the sake of her privacy in case she ever stumbles onto my blog] at UVic. When we were in high school, we had spare together, a couple classes together, hung out with some of the same people, and even played on the same ball team [too much information?]. So naturally when I saw her out of the corner of my eye, working, I had to run over and say HEY! I mean, I haven’t seen her since prom or the year after grad, since my parents left so I was super fired up about going to chat with her. I ran out of my class to where she was and like a total fool, WAVED at her and said “HEY [insert name]! How’s it going? Wow it’s been forever” with a big fat grin on my face. Much to my heartbreak this was her response:
[insert blank stare]…
[insert furrowed brow, in a type of angst]…
[insert the “i-don’t-know-why-you’re-talking-to-me-but-i-will-do-this-to-
acknowledge-you smirk]…
FOR REAL! I swear, if I was completely daft I would believe she didn’t recognize me… but the contempt that brimmed from her eyes down her cheeks to her mouth and ultimately, I am assuming, reached her fists [that would’ve punched me if we were elsewhere].
THERE IS NO WAY SHE DIDN’T RECOGNIZE ME!
In my hysteria of seeing an old “friend” I completely lost my composure, then lost my dignity as everyone around there was witnessing this would-be joyous reunion of old friends.
[insert my head falling]…
[insert colour into my cheeks that never blush]…
[insert psycho babble that I stammered to my friends on why the reunion I ran out on them for lasted only 14.25 seconds]…
Well, this happened initially about a month ago. I see her every [one day out of the week.. I won’t say which at again, risk of her reading this blog] and it’s still the same thing. She is not pleading a very convincing case of not knowing me as she pleads a very convincing case that she hates me.
I’ve spent 4 weeks explicating my brain, pouring over my yearbook [that she signed with a very wonderful passage] and rereading old journals [not really] and I cannot for the life of me figure out what I did to deserve her absolute disgust.
I guess she’s just not that into me.
[Lesson learned: I wasn’t as cool as I thought I was in high school.]
16 October 07 -- Tuesday at 8:40 pm
i would have ran over to you and say OH MY WORD!! KATE!! I HAVNT SEEN YOU FOREVER!!! just so you konw, in some rare chance we meet on the street, you can come up to me and say hi, and i will recognize you 🙂 just so you know
16 October 07 -- Tuesday at 11:30 pm
Now I’m curious to know who it is… I’m so sorry Kate, and for the record, I think that you’re cool.
17 October 07 -- Wednesday at 2:06 am
So FUNNY! And by that I mean, “What a B*#@&!”
What a cow. Girls are so lame. Maybe you should try to trip her in the hallway sometime.
17 October 07 -- Wednesday at 2:41 am
Eww. Girls are dumb. 😦
17 October 07 -- Wednesday at 4:53 am
Good one Avey… I am on it.
And Meg I will tell you, you might even know her
18 October 07 -- Thursday at 2:25 am
just so you know, i havne’t forgotten about you… ummm in the context of your latest blog it isn’t that funny, or maybe it’s funnier. Either way just wanted to let you know that there is a sticky note on my computer it says
Eggs
Cottage Cheeze
Check on Colima Grant
Make Dentist appointment
Write Kate
Cancel appointment at the Gym…
your email is coming