(post)ponement
Get it?
Anyway, i know i am scheduled to post on my Monday adventure to Gettysburg, and i will, soon. i also know that i owe a lot of your blogs visits. i have been scarce since i started school again. my deepest apologies.
But i have to postpone once more to record the events of last night.
They may seem perfectly uneventful to most.
They probably are.
But it was the most fun i've had since arriving in Philadelphia, and i want to be able to come back to this and read it someday!
So... i'm running around my lab on Friday after school, trying to wrap things up and get out of there at a reasonable hour (read: 5pm) when two 5th graders poke their heads into my room and ask if they can sit in there and do an interview they had been assigned to do for their Civ class.
Jen, the educational technologist, follows them in and says says hello (we work across the hall from one another, she always seemed nice enough), and they proceed to interview her while i finish off emails, sort through my stack of grading, and pack up my bags.
The interview was really cute, and at one point, they asked Jen to recite some lines of her favorite poem, but she couldn't remember them! Luckily, i was on hand and could finish it for her.
After the kids left, she spontaneously asked me if i wanted to go have sushi with her and two other young, single, female teachers.
i have just developed a love of sushi over the last four months or so. i was staying with my Philly cousins while i apartment hunted, and they took me out to this sushi bar. Well, i didn't want to be rude, so i ate some and it was like a whole new culinary world has opened up.
But since arriving in Philly, i haven't had the chance, so i said yes!, even though it had the potential to be quite awkward.
When i arrived at Bluefin, Jen, Meadow, and Stephanie were already there. i knew Meadow because we are both new to this school and have gone to the New Faculty Meetings together. But i literally sat down, introduced myself, and shook hands with Stephanie at the beginning of the meal.
It didn't take long for us to realize that we have a lot in common. It must have been funny to hear us tiptoeing around issues we weren't sure were going to offend each other, timidly saying it anyway, and then realizing we all have very similar views on religion, politics, relationships and all the other potentially offensive topics.
We decided that we're kind of like the Sex in the City girls. Jen and Stephanie think that Meadow and i are hysterical and we think they are. We decided we all belonged on a TV show not called "Sex in the City" but rather "Not Getting Any In Philadelphia."
We discussed terms of being kicked out of the group when you get some, and how long of a dry spell it would take to earn your way back in, and then dubbed ourselves (for reasons which will remain private) the Sigma Sigma Sigma sorority.
We made plans to attend the bridesmaid's ball, and to rope three more people to dress up as the 7 deadly sins for a halloween party (which we also have to plan, and throw).
Of course the implied confidentiality of the circle grew as we talked, and i won't write about anything else we may or may not have discussed.
i will say that we were the first people at the very popular restaurant that night, and while not the last to leave, very close. As we got up 5 hours after sitting down, we each added another $10 into the tip, figuring they could have had three tables there in the interim, and the sushi chefs got up and clapped.
They clapped as we left and said, "hey, you set the record!"
i don't usually make friends at work.
You all know i have some personal stuff that i don't like to share with people i work with, and so i usually tend to find friends through other outlets.
But this was great. Sometimes nights like this happen, and then plans fade away, and people forget to come back together. And i can't say that won't happen, but i can say that if it doesn't happen, and i really have found three girlfriends of the quality i think i have, that i will want to remember last night for a long time.
Anyway, i know i am scheduled to post on my Monday adventure to Gettysburg, and i will, soon. i also know that i owe a lot of your blogs visits. i have been scarce since i started school again. my deepest apologies.
But i have to postpone once more to record the events of last night.
They may seem perfectly uneventful to most.
They probably are.
But it was the most fun i've had since arriving in Philadelphia, and i want to be able to come back to this and read it someday!
So... i'm running around my lab on Friday after school, trying to wrap things up and get out of there at a reasonable hour (read: 5pm) when two 5th graders poke their heads into my room and ask if they can sit in there and do an interview they had been assigned to do for their Civ class.
Jen, the educational technologist, follows them in and says says hello (we work across the hall from one another, she always seemed nice enough), and they proceed to interview her while i finish off emails, sort through my stack of grading, and pack up my bags.
The interview was really cute, and at one point, they asked Jen to recite some lines of her favorite poem, but she couldn't remember them! Luckily, i was on hand and could finish it for her.
After the kids left, she spontaneously asked me if i wanted to go have sushi with her and two other young, single, female teachers.
i have just developed a love of sushi over the last four months or so. i was staying with my Philly cousins while i apartment hunted, and they took me out to this sushi bar. Well, i didn't want to be rude, so i ate some and it was like a whole new culinary world has opened up.
But since arriving in Philly, i haven't had the chance, so i said yes!, even though it had the potential to be quite awkward.
When i arrived at Bluefin, Jen, Meadow, and Stephanie were already there. i knew Meadow because we are both new to this school and have gone to the New Faculty Meetings together. But i literally sat down, introduced myself, and shook hands with Stephanie at the beginning of the meal.
It didn't take long for us to realize that we have a lot in common. It must have been funny to hear us tiptoeing around issues we weren't sure were going to offend each other, timidly saying it anyway, and then realizing we all have very similar views on religion, politics, relationships and all the other potentially offensive topics.
We decided that we're kind of like the Sex in the City girls. Jen and Stephanie think that Meadow and i are hysterical and we think they are. We decided we all belonged on a TV show not called "Sex in the City" but rather "Not Getting Any In Philadelphia."
We discussed terms of being kicked out of the group when you get some, and how long of a dry spell it would take to earn your way back in, and then dubbed ourselves (for reasons which will remain private) the Sigma Sigma Sigma sorority.
We made plans to attend the bridesmaid's ball, and to rope three more people to dress up as the 7 deadly sins for a halloween party (which we also have to plan, and throw).
Of course the implied confidentiality of the circle grew as we talked, and i won't write about anything else we may or may not have discussed.
i will say that we were the first people at the very popular restaurant that night, and while not the last to leave, very close. As we got up 5 hours after sitting down, we each added another $10 into the tip, figuring they could have had three tables there in the interim, and the sushi chefs got up and clapped.
They clapped as we left and said, "hey, you set the record!"
i don't usually make friends at work.
You all know i have some personal stuff that i don't like to share with people i work with, and so i usually tend to find friends through other outlets.
But this was great. Sometimes nights like this happen, and then plans fade away, and people forget to come back together. And i can't say that won't happen, but i can say that if it doesn't happen, and i really have found three girlfriends of the quality i think i have, that i will want to remember last night for a long time.
posted by ellie at 10:56
2 Comments:
I'm glad you've made friends in Philly. Come this way sometime soon!
I also don't make "really good friends" at work - even though I talk about my family all the time and I spend more time with them than I do my family, I don't want to go hang out with them after work. But I am so glad that you had fun and am meeting new people. I love the fact that you decided to move - I'm just not sure I could do it. And isn't that sad?
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