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Jon?

'tis a good day to saunter
Monday. 4.9.12 11:39 am
Joel is the kind of person whose smile illuminates his entire face – you wouldn’t have to look at his mouth to recognize his grin. I reckon it’s in the eyebrows. He’s got this way of arching them at just the right angle when he smiles – and he smiles frequently – that endears you to him. There’s a certain.. genuine quality to him that is stronger than that found in others ‘round these parts. He’s a good guy.
There’s a steady confidence to his ways I couldn’t even begin to feign. Joel was actually the first student here that really engaged me. The day of orientation, all 80 members of my section toured campus in various countenances. Some were genuinely excited, others merely donned that mask of eagerness. Everyone was remarkably nice and at least tried to be friendly. Well, almost everyone.

The ever-present outlier I am, I could not help but allow my pensive nature to overtake any desire I had to mingle and quickly found myself in the back of the throng of students. I lumbered behind the group, sauntering and taking in the sights rather than brisk by them to keep up with the horde. Joel, perhaps noticing my Thoreau-like saunter, slowed his own pace down and engaged me in conversation.

“What do you think,” he says to me with an eager expression?

“.. I don’t.”


I think I won him over with that quip. He laughed, introduced himself, and told me some of his story – lived in Pittsburgh, Maryland, North Carolina and Saigon. Went to H for undergrad and is now back for law school. As the year passed, he quickly established himself as one of the sharpest minds in the class, quick to speak up and usually with the right answer.. but never in the smug or condescending way one would expect.


I’m not entirely sure what it is he sees in me that makes him want friendship. I suppose, and hope, that it’s the same genuine quality in me that I see in him.

2 Comments.


I like this guy already. Not as much as I like you, of course.
Re:c Ahhhhhh, now I know why he looks so familiar.
» Zanzibar on 2012-04-09 11:55:26

THANK YOU VERY EFFING MUCH!
Lived in Saigon? woohoo.
» peanutmelon on 2012-04-10 06:52:48

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