The basement of Geisel Library has these super-sweet headphones that you can borrow with your student I.D. — the kind that curls around your ear and makes it so\u00a0that Taylor Swift can serenade you as you write your e-mails and do your homework.<\/p>\n
I tend to go into the library during the same times, so I see the same folks behind the receptionist counter. One woman in particular has a warm smile that can brighten the entire room.<\/p>\n
“Hi there, could I borrow some headphones?”<\/p>\n
“Sure”, she would say. Or: “sorry, we’re out.”<\/p>\n
“Okay, no worries.” I knew her in no other context, although I would find myself hoping to see her again whenever I\u00a0borrow headphones.<\/p>\n
Then last Friday I saw her up in the town of Del Mar; apparently we both knew the birthday boy. We had a solid conversation about what we wanted to do with our lives in the backyard. She wants to be a middle school or high school teacher, “even if they’re\u00a0a handful”. I didn’t have a straight answer myself, but I said something about education or healthcare looking interesting, since I’ve found that “uhh, I don’t know” never really gives anything for the other person to build off of or respond to in conversations (even if it’s true).\u00a0She gave me her beer.<\/p>\n
This morning she recognizes me. “Wesley, right?”\u00a0I’m elated that she remembers, but now I feel doubly bad for not remembering hers.\u00a0Most library employees wear a name tag, but she is not wearing hers today. (Of course that would happen).\u00a0 I remember everything else!!<\/em> I wanted to say.<\/p>\n “Nancy, right?”<\/p>\n “It’s Haley.”<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n There are bigger things to worry about in the world, but it’s still embarrassing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The basement of Geisel Library has these super-sweet headphones that you can borrow with your student I.D. — the kind that curls around your ear and makes it so\u00a0that Taylor Swift can serenade you as you write your e-mails and do your homework. I tend to go into the library during the same times, so … Continue reading “not nancy”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,22,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-misc","category-ucsd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3MSpn-uy","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1894"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1906,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894\/revisions\/1906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}