2008 Woodie Awards
Natalie Lind Writes it all Down for Posterity #17
By: Anna Chastain
Issue date: 3/10/06 Section: Features
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The Friday before spring break Warrenâ?TMs mother and younger sister fly in and make willing to spend the week in some hotel downtown. â?oeYour father couldnâ?TMt be here because he had too much going on but Gen and I were at a loose end so why not. And last year your breaks didnâ?TMt coincide.â?? Kathy Hamilton told us, as soon as she was introduced, that we should all call her Kathy but somehow it doesnâ?TMt fall off the tongue and we decide not to call her much of anything.
Genevieve had said, â?oeItâ?TMs lame you guys only get a week.â??
Sheâ?TMd introduced us all to her mother a couple hours before while Warren left the two of them in our triple to go get his nice jacket from his room. Weâ?TMd met Genevieve last semester and I remembered her as someone who drew black circles under her eyes with semi-reflective eyeliner: and she remembered us too. â?oeThatâ?TMs Kesia,â?? she said, starting off with the obvious: â?oeKesiaâ?TMs black; and thatâ?TMs Jeff, heâ?TMs Korean; Tobyâ?TMs Jewish; Natalieâ?TMs gay; and Bernadetteâ?TMsâ?"â?? she took longer with this one but she marshaled her information and pushed ahead, â?oeBernadetteâ?TMs a lush.â??
â?oeWell,â?? Jeff said. â?oeIâ?TMm Korean-American actually. And in case weâ?TMre all wondering, Iâ?TMm not adopted.â??
Bernadette elbowed him in his shoulder and hissed. â?oeWhat about mine? Mineâ?TMs not even almost true.â??
Jeff had gone off to do his 7pm rounds, but when Warren comes back, in his grey-green tweed jacket, Warrenâ?TMs mother decides to take all the rest of us out to dinner. So thatâ?TMs where we are. She drapes her grey cashmere over the back of her chair and sits down, pulls the iced water closer to her and says, â?oeWarren doesnâ?TMt talk a lot about his friends. How did you all meet?â??
â?oeWe lived on the same floor last year,â?? Bernadette says. â?oeWarrenâ?TMs not much of a personality at first but Jeff was his roommate and Jeff liked him and Jeff has a sense about that.â??
Genevieve had said, â?oeItâ?TMs lame you guys only get a week.â??
Sheâ?TMd introduced us all to her mother a couple hours before while Warren left the two of them in our triple to go get his nice jacket from his room. Weâ?TMd met Genevieve last semester and I remembered her as someone who drew black circles under her eyes with semi-reflective eyeliner: and she remembered us too. â?oeThatâ?TMs Kesia,â?? she said, starting off with the obvious: â?oeKesiaâ?TMs black; and thatâ?TMs Jeff, heâ?TMs Korean; Tobyâ?TMs Jewish; Natalieâ?TMs gay; and Bernadetteâ?TMsâ?"â?? she took longer with this one but she marshaled her information and pushed ahead, â?oeBernadetteâ?TMs a lush.â??
â?oeWell,â?? Jeff said. â?oeIâ?TMm Korean-American actually. And in case weâ?TMre all wondering, Iâ?TMm not adopted.â??
Bernadette elbowed him in his shoulder and hissed. â?oeWhat about mine? Mineâ?TMs not even almost true.â??
Jeff had gone off to do his 7pm rounds, but when Warren comes back, in his grey-green tweed jacket, Warrenâ?TMs mother decides to take all the rest of us out to dinner. So thatâ?TMs where we are. She drapes her grey cashmere over the back of her chair and sits down, pulls the iced water closer to her and says, â?oeWarren doesnâ?TMt talk a lot about his friends. How did you all meet?â??
â?oeWe lived on the same floor last year,â?? Bernadette says. â?oeWarrenâ?TMs not much of a personality at first but Jeff was his roommate and Jeff liked him and Jeff has a sense about that.â??
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