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sniffnoySo I went to Minneapolis last weekend for a wedding. On Saturday, as I left the AirBNB I was staying at to go to the wedding, a guy on the street came up to me, saying, I know you!
"Luke?" I said, because he looked kind of like a guy named Luke I used to know here in New York. But it was not Luke. "Alex!" he confidently named me. But I was like, nope, I'm Harry.
Still, the guy was sure he knew me from somewhere. "MST", he suggested. What's MST, I'm thinking, and then I realize -- "MST? Like in Missouri?" Yes, he says! "In Rolla?" "Yes!"
And so I asked -- do you know Heidi Soderstrom? And his answer was... no.
So, it's pretty unlikely that we had in fact met. I'm like, sorry, I didn't go to MST; I did visit my friend Heidi there a few times but that's it. But he was sure he knew me from there -- you were in my physics class, he said! (I definitely was not.)
Eventually I had to just go. The thing, I guess, that is a bit hard to convey via text, is just how much this guy was freaking out about this. (He also had two friends with him who were like not reacting to any of this.) I don't remember exact words, but he said a number of things to the effect of, this sort of thing doesn't happen!, and, the universe is telling me something! I was just like, coincidences happen, man, but this of course had no effect.
I told all this to Heidi, of course, and she was like, what was his name? And I was like, I don't know, I didn't ask. She was like, well, if he's right, maybe you'll run into him again! (She also noted that if he called it "MST", rather than "Missouri S&T", he was probably from before her time there.)
...well, the next day -- in the same place but at a different time of day -- I did! This time he was much calmer. His name is Nick, apparently. No last name, Heidi asked me when I told her this? Sorry, I didn't ask him that.
(Also I saw Shuo while I was out in Minneapolis!)
(Also we're now down to 207 books. And five of those have been set aside by Chang to take next time she's here, so hopefully next week or the week after. And there's two books that my second cousin Jeff wanted, that I will have to bring to him next time I see him, although that may be some months. Still, all those books will almost certainly get taken I figure, and that would bring us down to 200. So we'll almost certainly be under 200 by the end of the year, since that only requires one more book to be taken, and we still have most of the year left for that!)
-Harry
"Luke?" I said, because he looked kind of like a guy named Luke I used to know here in New York. But it was not Luke. "Alex!" he confidently named me. But I was like, nope, I'm Harry.
Still, the guy was sure he knew me from somewhere. "MST", he suggested. What's MST, I'm thinking, and then I realize -- "MST? Like in Missouri?" Yes, he says! "In Rolla?" "Yes!"
And so I asked -- do you know Heidi Soderstrom? And his answer was... no.
So, it's pretty unlikely that we had in fact met. I'm like, sorry, I didn't go to MST; I did visit my friend Heidi there a few times but that's it. But he was sure he knew me from there -- you were in my physics class, he said! (I definitely was not.)
Eventually I had to just go. The thing, I guess, that is a bit hard to convey via text, is just how much this guy was freaking out about this. (He also had two friends with him who were like not reacting to any of this.) I don't remember exact words, but he said a number of things to the effect of, this sort of thing doesn't happen!, and, the universe is telling me something! I was just like, coincidences happen, man, but this of course had no effect.
I told all this to Heidi, of course, and she was like, what was his name? And I was like, I don't know, I didn't ask. She was like, well, if he's right, maybe you'll run into him again! (She also noted that if he called it "MST", rather than "Missouri S&T", he was probably from before her time there.)
...well, the next day -- in the same place but at a different time of day -- I did! This time he was much calmer. His name is Nick, apparently. No last name, Heidi asked me when I told her this? Sorry, I didn't ask him that.
(Also I saw Shuo while I was out in Minneapolis!)
(Also we're now down to 207 books. And five of those have been set aside by Chang to take next time she's here, so hopefully next week or the week after. And there's two books that my second cousin Jeff wanted, that I will have to bring to him next time I see him, although that may be some months. Still, all those books will almost certainly get taken I figure, and that would bring us down to 200. So we'll almost certainly be under 200 by the end of the year, since that only requires one more book to be taken, and we still have most of the year left for that!)
-Harry
