miles to go before i sleep
Yes, Mr. White! He was awful. I just remember being bored to tears and hoping he didn’t try to tell me any jokes. Sometimes he’d do the “Heh heh heh heeeeeeeehn” trailing off laugh thing if you didn’t laugh with him and I always felt bad.
I think I remembered you from either basketball practice when I’d have to stay late, or maybe from hanging out with Hermann while I argued with Jack about l33t speak. I dunno, maybe I just pay attention or something, but you weren’t invisible!
I think about going back to Madrid, but almost everyone I knew and hung out with is gone now. Maybe if I’d have stayed in touch better. I do want to see the city through my eyes now, rather than my eyes then, though. I think I’d appreciate it more. I didn’t care about architecture back then, but I do now, so hey. There’s that.
Those laughs were painful to hear. And he’d always be rubbing his stomach! I juuust remembered now, Freeborn and Mikk once acted in some play with skits, I can’t remember what it really consisted of, but I remember they acted as each other, and it was hilarious (Freeborn being really pissy and Mikk drinking coffee and stroking his chin). And there was another skit where someone acted as Mr White and would make those awkward laughs and bellyrubs. I think it was David Vacjner, but I might be wrong…it’s a very vague memory. Anyway, I think you were paying attention. And it can’t have been when you talked to my brother, because we ignored each other during school. How intriguing.
I’ve gone back to Madrid three times, 6 months after leaving, 1.5 years after that, and 2 years later, last Christmas. The visits are more spread out each time, which saddens me. I really want to move there again. About the architecture, that’s true, once you’re older you appreciate that kind of stuff more. I know I really took living there for granted, but I’d go insane visiting every corner if I moved there again.
