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wouldn’t want you to starve

Boy, do I feel crabby. Out of sorts. I’ve mostly just been watching videos today, working on Claire’s rug and looking forward to this evening when I can listen to 60 Minutes and paint the trim in the ex-purple room. Cramps are no fun and neither is missing Todd.

Had a great surprise yesterday, though. I finished watching The Dark Crystal, after spending the entire movie turning to say something to Todd and realizing that he wasn’t there, feeling lonely and sad. Checked email and found a message from him saying that he’d found a place called “The Internet Store” and was on IRC, hurrah! So we were able to talk on the computer for about an hour yesterday, we were both really glad. When the hour was up we were both teary. Todd said that he read my journal entries and it made him feel sad and wistful — that it was like standing and watching through a window but not being able to participate. I told him all about The Dark Crystal, which wasn’t creepy or scary at all (although interestingly I think it had a lot to say about the way human beings treat animals) — on the contrary, it was hysterically funny because instead of seeing what most people see when they watch that movie, which is the Skekses (evil beings) trying to keep the Mystics (peaceful beings) from saving the the Gelflings (nice if not so bright beings) I saw Claire-beings trying to keep Karma-beings from saving Anita-beings. Made for quite an amusing movie.

And then the other big surprise came later on in the evening, I was watching another video and Sarah knocked at the door — I let her in and she held out a tupperware container and said, “Well, I know Todd’s out of town and I wouldn’t want you to starve,” and it turned out that she’d came all the way here just to bring me veggie chili. What a sweetheart. I felt really taken care of. We sat and talked for awhile and then I remembered that Kitey had left the video that I’d made with Sarah’s camera and asked if she wanted to see it. She said sure, and ended up liking it so much that she wants a copy.

Talked to Todd on the phone and he told me this absolutely surreal story, which is that he went to a touristy part of the city he’s in because he was curious about it and was walking along when he heard someone say, “Todd!” and looked around, and the person was talking to him! It turned out to be one of his college roommates, who didn’t even live in that town but was just visiting from Vermont to watch a football game. Todd said it was pretty awkward, the guy is in the ROTC and loves football so you can imagine just how much they had to talk about. I was really surprised that the guy had recognized him — I mean, I can barely recognize Todd from his college-age pictures.

Called Sarah today when I’d finished watching the last movie she’d loaned me and asked if I could walk over to return them and borrow more, she said of course and even said she was making a sandwich and did I want one. What did I do to deserve such wonderful people in my life? It turned out to be about 20 degrees colder outside than I thought it was, but it’s bright and sunny outside and I love walking in the snow. When I got there we sat and talked for awhile, I picked out some more movies and then she offered to drive me home since it was so cold outside.

It’s been a kind of strange, unreal sort of day.

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