acher ([info]shoshi144) wrote,
@ 2005-02-09 17:43:00
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Happy New Year! Rosh Chodesh! Wednesday! (stolen concept below)
My dear gentle reader,

Would you be so kind as to post a memory of yours in which I am involved? Anything that suits your fancy, be it good or horribly bad. Even if we haven't spoken in a while, I'd really appreciate it. I'm interested to find out what pops into your mind. Thank you!

Sincerely,

Samantha

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[info]insert_allusion
2005-02-09 11:18 pm UTC (link)
i remember when i met you in your kindergarten games activity. that seriously was the best cty activity ever. and how we "couldn't" go out in the rain, and we stayed in the walkway while a dyslexic girl made a backwards hopscotch. i love the rain at cty, it's always so friendly, somehow. afterwards we went out to the soaked benches and just started talking. from that point on you were manthie. being at both sessions with you was fun...and i'd say my number one memory of you is the same you have of me, sitting under that tree before dinner. we'd walked back from improv (and a disaster it was) and we just started talking about various past experiences, what the hell they all mean. i'm still not sure if i know more, if i'm greater than the sum of those individual experiences. either way, it was nice sitting there, and i remember you commenting at the time about the beauty of the leaves. i didn't really want to go inside either.

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[info]shoshi144
2005-02-09 11:39 pm UTC (link)
improv. oy. nicole and i were so determined to make that work! i guess people enjoyed it enough, but still I hated to be the person that killed it. So it goes.

kindergarten games, contrarily, was rockin'. my favorite success of that week was when kay and i found a way to get (read: quasi stole) ice pops for you guys. kay is so awesome. oh yes, and general playgroundness. and play doh. that was good times.

it was misting today the way it did at cty and i was trying to think of a way to describe how it felt. "friendly" is quite perfect, i think.

reminds me of that e e cummings poem - "nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands"

maybe the beauty of the summer is the ability to have moments, to not have to go inside.

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[info]someslydear
2005-02-09 11:46 pm UTC (link)
You're gonna kill me but the first memory that popped into my head was at a CTY dance, and you and Charlie were making out behind a pole in the middle of the cafeteria.

The second one is much better, I remember that same dance (for some reason a whole bunch of my memories are from that dance) and you were standing next to me in a big circle dancing to something really upbeat. I remember watching you and wishing I was that self confident.

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[info]shoshi144
2005-02-10 02:12 am UTC (link)
Rose, thank you. That first comment made me laugh quite audibly. I don't think I'll ever live that moment down...

Self confidence. Hmm. whatever that means, particularly to our past teenaged selves. We all needed some, back then. I think your comment is really remarkable because I'm sure I was thinking the same thing - look at all these people doing these special things and i'm just here. CTY dances were the one place during those years I think I really allowed myself to sometimes let go and just be. You never know. In any case, always admired how delicate your beauty was. For what that's worth.

There's more I want to say to you but tonight is not quite in my grasp. Until then.

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:-D
(Anonymous)
2005-02-10 02:07 am UTC (link)
Empire State Building and a hammer.

That is all..

~D

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[info]shoshi144
2005-02-10 02:21 am UTC (link)
*giggle*

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[info]pallien
2005-02-10 02:35 am UTC (link)
For some reason the thing that comes to mind is our first night my first year at CTY, when you decided it would be a great idea to leave a note on Lydia's door for when she got there. I got in on it, but you are the one with good neighbor instincts :)

This was, of course, before you realized that she was the same Lydia you knew before, and before I had become acquainted with the same Lydia, and before I knew how to, um, talk to people. Life was different then.

Oh, I also remember that first year you kept a spray bottle of water on your desk, and periodically as we pored over our work I would hear *squirt squirt*.

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parles-tu francais? (obviously, i no longer do... yeah.)
[info]shoshi144
2005-02-10 11:09 pm UTC (link)
My friend just informed me that the proper subject line would be "est-ce que tu parles.." but um, my french is dreadful. as you know. What I wouldn't give for another summer with skinny fingered mireille and her handsome beau roberrrrt. Whoa, what a long time ago that was. I had forgotten... I do remember that squirt bottle, and particularly putting weird things in it (iced tea, i think) and many a frustrating study hall. I definitely didn't understand how to do work, back then. Lots of lydia visits and aloe fests. What a crazy cat, that lydia.

One memory of jes that isn't you is the first july fourth i didn't see you after 3 in a row - muy sad. Oh, anecdotally, my friend's birthday is the fifth of july, and as another (canadian) friend pointed out, she's one day younger than america (give or take a million years). Right. I think that might only be funny to me. shrug.

Come have lunch with me! tea! dinner! la la la! I'm sure everythings caaahrraaayzee lately, but let me know if there is freedom, too. I'm ending up downtown pretty randomly lately (i want to go to the parade on sunday in chinatown, i might be interning at a museum in battery park) so yes. let me know. because i like you! and want you to like me! and so on and so forth. whew. this was a long comment. sorry about that.

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[info]kisskisskiss
2005-02-10 02:59 am UTC (link)
Your hall, yelling at you about Alex while you blushed.

I'm sorry, I'm a wicked little girl.

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[info]shoshi144
2005-02-10 11:53 pm UTC (link)
Cackle away, Keane. Cackle away.

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[info]sistersanch
2005-02-10 03:37 am UTC (link)
my new favorite memory that involves you is sitting in subway by times sq. and talking for eternity while eating a plastic bag aka CARROT.

(there's another memory too that involves a certain cty bathroom...)

love.

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[info]shoshi144
2005-02-10 11:14 pm UTC (link)
Oddly enough, that WAS good times. I really appreciated the sam-teresa aloneness, because that doesn't so much happen, and it was terribly fun when it did. Even if we didn't eat anywhere fun or do anything fun... though hotel rwanda was an experience i think only to be shared with rwanda. as was sketchy sandwich/pizza place. yes yes.

Harder Hall. what can I say? It says it all. I was back in there this summer and couldn't help but smile.

OH dude i wrote you a letter like a million years ago. and my mom called and found it in the couch - so evidently it hasn't been sent. humph. i dont even remember what i said. suffice it to say, im going to send it anyway (big surprise, i know) but what's your address?

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[info]elerz
2005-02-10 03:41 am UTC (link)
i guess if i had to pick one (because i started writing this comment and it ended up being too long and rambly) it would be when you took rebekah and me to the shul on the first saturday (the walks there and back more than the actual being-at-the-shul)...especially when we passed by some random people on the sidewalk and you said hi to them and i thought that it was a really cool awesome thing to do :D.
(the other ones that i thought of was the first morning of CTY when you were talking to my parents, and just in general you allowing me to be in your room during, umm, social time )

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[info]shoshi144
2005-02-10 11:42 pm UTC (link)
the walk to and from shul WAS really good. although you had such non comfy shoes! though oh so pretty. and such. I'm glad we went - it seemed so much lehavdil, you know? bein kodesh l'chol, somehow. not so much yahadut at cty. shul itself was so strange though, wasn't it? especially when we figured out it was ari and shira's parents. maybe not SO strange.

how is rebekah anyway? do you keep in touch?

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[info]elerz
2005-02-11 12:08 am UTC (link)
last time i spoke to rebekah (and by spoke i mean on AIM) was around the begining of chanukah for about ten minutes. but that was very much expected...as much as we were together 24/7 we never really had much to talk about.

the shoes were comfy, though. or, well, except for the up and down the hill part. and they definitely still have mud on them. umm. that's kinda gross. oops.

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[info]pepermint_dryad
2005-02-10 05:41 am UTC (link)
Oh man. So many to choose from.

The first one that popped into my head isn't the happiest memory, so I'm going to name two.

The beginning of our second summer together, the first night. You were very upset because you'd just broken up with Alan. You actually forgave him quite quickly after that, but I never could.

Our first night of bonding. I was amazed at how much we clicked. I think we talked for at least a few hours.

Okay, three. When you surprised me by showing up at my show!

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Choosing? I wouldn't know where to begin.
[info]shoshi144
2005-02-10 11:52 pm UTC (link)
I miss making memories with you.

I think I like most the time I was at your house around christmastime and there was a gingerbread house. That's the first memory that slips into my head, for no reason. Everything blends together into moments and I don't remember what happened when. I remember the first time you took me to show me your special place in the stream behind your house, and the first time I met claire (and you) and she was scared of me, and the time we met in the city and your dad escorted cause he was going somewhere with nat and he heckled me (as usual) and lots and lots of sitting on my couch or wandering around my house wondering how it was we were ever going to get through this thing called high school.

It's quite the pretty blur. Like a monet up close, with more psychedelic colors.

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[info]pepermint_dryad
2005-02-11 11:46 pm UTC (link)
wondering how it was we were ever going to get through this thing called high school

I couldn't have done it without you. Seriously.

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[info]pavedsilver
2005-02-10 11:18 pm UTC (link)
um my favorite memory would have to be the time i walked with you and baruch back from some weekly and we chatted the whole time and i managed to swing my lanyard juuust out of your line of vision the entire time until like the last possible moment and then you noticed and got mad. but it was still fun. ;-)

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so i take it you're ari, eh?
[info]shoshi144
2005-02-10 11:45 pm UTC (link)
lanyard swinging is the DEVILS ACTIVITY.

that is all.

Honestly, six months later, I still have to repress the urge to tell my friends to stop swinging their keys.

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Re: so i take it you're ari, eh?
[info]pavedsilver
2005-02-11 10:30 pm UTC (link)
cty RA training has brainwashed you. are you really so far gone that you cannot reach into a distant memory and find a time when you, too, knew the pleasures of lanyard-swinging?

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[info]elerz
2005-02-15 07:04 pm UTC (link)
p.s. you lose. *sticks out tounge*

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