By Irene
Packing the car up for hopefully the last time was sort of like shopping without having to pay for anything. I gathered: canned food, towels, knifes and forks, drinking glasses, a pan, paper towels, toilet paper, I found a huge thing of coffee (YES!!!), I mean, I took our big black table (you know, our dining room table that we've had forever?). Mom made me food. I took two of your posters which were hanging out in the garage (Death Valley and Color of Love, tell me if you had plans to use them). I also took a shelf you never ended up putting in your room. I took a table cloth and the thing you put under it (Mom's doing). I basically cleaned out the house of stuff mom has been collecting for years but that haven't been used in ages. Oh yea, I took a french press, and the food processor (though that's grandma's).
I also saw Brindha!!! Helen, it was SO good to see her. This summer has been very weird in the friends sector, what with the girls both gone, no one from college in town, and other stuff. So seeing her and talking to her, giving her a huge hug (multiples), and hearing her optimism and perspective made leaving for college and starting this semester possible. Also, Joe Biden? What's the scoop? And she brought me back earrings and a hat from Bolivia. I used to think about you know, which friends I'll have forever and which I won't. But I think I'm going to stop thinking about it like that. I don't know whether or not Brindha and I will be friends forever, I just know that right now we have a really wonderful, great relationship. And I can't wait for her to come visit in September and then to come back from Oxford so I can visit her in Stanford again. But I daren't say we'll be friends forever, not because I don't want to, but because sometimes you have to let people go if there isn't the same bond anymore (and create a different type of relationship) and maybe even let new people in, which I've never really thought about because that's scary and tiring. You actually, don't have that leeway, because sisters are a different animal altogether.
I'm ready to write a post that would do this post's title justice, but I think you know what I mean when I say it, so I'm leaving it at is. I know you are going to succeed on Tuesday, and mom and dad know so too. So through brain waves, genetics, and osmosis (just for kicks) you know it too.