Monday, August 24, 2009

thirteen; Emily, Huffy mountain bike (Craig's List $80)


She’s why people get nervous about going to Berkeley.
Yet strangely she’s nervous; about starting her graduate work at Cal (though her undergrad is from Columbia), about losing her German (not her Spanish, she was born in Guatemala while one of her parents was doing archeological research), about what she should do with her running (she ran D1 cross-country and track).
She looks at chemistry like college bachelors look at duct tape; it could solve almost any problem.
She dashes between South America’s pollution and the milk she’s getting at Walgreens without skipping a breath,
“I’m thinking about trying triathlons”

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