so nick gets this email from another rotary club scholarship person currently in france asking whether he’s coming to some welcome weekend. the note is written in english. because the guy’s last name is levin, and because the original note sounds sort of like a french person writing in english, nick responds in french. he then receives this:
Nicholas,
Dude. I am from New Jersey. However, if you want to write me in French, feel free. The number on this email is my cell phone. Since there is a 9 hour difference you can call me from either 9am-Noon your time or from midnight on your time.
Looking forward to chatting
Amicalement
Jason
i can’t explain why this had me laughing for at least 5 minutes straight except to say that the guy says “dude” and is, out of all the places he could possibly name, from new jersey. that’s comedy.
on sunday night i remarked to eric about the bugs in my apartment, saying that i’ve had ants and seen a few spiders and a random insect here and there, but never any of the little lizards that swarm around my front door every night. well, of course that meant that a day and a half later–this morning as i finished brushing my teeth–i was surprised by a two-inch long translucent baby lizard crawling across my carpet. i couldn’t figure out how i was supposed to smush a lizard without creating a mess. also, the thought of smushing him made me think of bubba, my cute pet lizard from 5th to 8th grade, and that made me sympathetic. i couldn’t smush him! so i trapped him under a cup, slid a magazine underneath, and deposited him about twenty feet from my front door. he scampered off, probably on his way back to my apartment, but oh well.
last night i was so productive and got a lot of cleaning done. there now are no more boxes left in my living room, and only four left in my study! i have a not-insignificant amount of papers and things that i need to organize and file away, but at least they are in neat and manageable stacks. (i know i am going to get hassled for that by someone.) anyway, i also worked out. i also baked banana bread. look at me, i’m a normal person!
