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My Tutorial professor always expands on whatever I've said whenever I give an oral presentation. Is she clarifying my muddled thoughts or simply providing more to a presentation already full of meaningful insight? Is this good or bad?

Yesterday, in the radio station, while chatting with Alison, up came the subject of french camp, to which she went for something like five years, the second-to-last of which I joined her. We discussed memories and skits and sports and food and stuff and, most importantly, people. She brought up a familiar name: Amelia, Alison said, lives in Ames, roughly an hour from Grinnell. It hit me all at once. "She goes here!" I exclaimed. "She goes to Grinnell!" Mass amounts of mind-blowing ensued.

And, yeah, okay. I guess it's not that weird that we happened to run into each other at school. She only lives one-plus hours away. I only live four. Not that strange. But it dawned on me, after e-mailing Amelia, that the very same summer I went to french camp, I also went to New York. There, I recalled running into a familiar friend. I wasn't sure. Was that Amelia, too? I quickly sent another e-mail. A phone call, received not ten minutes later, confirmed that that, too, was, in fact, Amelia. And she had pictures of, and e-mails from, other Waubunites.

I never expected to run into any of those people once. Not that it wasn't a welcome surprise, -- Amelia is one of the coolest, nicest people I've ever met, and I think I recall having had a crush on her at camp. -- I just didn't do a very good job of keeping in touch with those people -- those great people -- after I left. I figured, two weeks. Neat. That's that.

I remember thinking what an odd coincidence it was that Joe, when I finally started talking to him in English 10 IB, had been at Waubun only a week before me. I didn't think it could get any weirder than that.

Peace.
-Todd