my ex-roommate’s (carla) boyfriend (tim).
back in the summer of 2005 i attended the j’explore french program. i roomed with the two most fabulous people you could ever meet: carla from nova scotia and nala from toronto. we made a vow to write to each other every two months by snail mail– never happened. nor have i been getting any telephone calls from either of them. i’ve only called carla one other time and i’ve called nala once before too. but i dont’ recall them ever calling me.
well last night, i had a dream about carla and tim– they met at french camp, and had a little break inbetween but continued their relationship, and both attend MUN university in newfoundland– and how they visited me. it was a vivid dream. my store manager was in the dream too. kind of weird.
they wanted to go eat pho and then i promised them that i’d take them to bon’s for breakfast the following morning.
last night i was about to call them, but i was too caught up in watching random ’sex and the city’ episodes for the first time. i guess this is why i dreamt about them.
unfortunately carla wasn’t home and was at the library. so i talked to tim instead. he said he wasn’t much of a conversationalist and our convo wasn’t more than 8 min. but boy did those 8 min seem to drag on! it’s hard for people to just reconnect again after such a long period of non-communication.
well, this isn’t totally true.
my friend christie, whom i also met at french camp, call me once in awhile and we’d take turns. all our convos are about an hr long. but that’s short considering how much catching up we have to do on each other’s lives! we talk during the summer and during winter break. that’s it. so really, one hr isn’t really sufficient catching-up time at all! oh well. they’re still great convos, nonetheless.
i talked about this before: people start off as strangers, become friends, and then become strangers again. it’s a sad, sad phenomenon. but it’s reality.
but i’m such a sentimental person, i wish it weren’t true.
anyway, i bet those were a painful 8 min for tim. esp cause he had to study for his final tomorrow and woke up at 6am to do a final and then study some more.
next time i hope to get a hold of carla, my dear, sweet, sweet ex-roommate whom i miss beaucoup.
i will now leave you with a quote from catcher in the rye: “don’t tell anybody anything. if you do, you start missing everybody.”
xox
