The class, cutting the grapevine, the girls, dream by wombknower -- Dec. 9, 2012
1. I am in the last session of my Labour & Employment class. A classmate sits beside me and she gives the professor feedback about the course. She begins by telling him that he makes disparaging comments about himself too often. He constantly talks about being old. She says that this is not helpful to him or to the class. As she continues to talk, she changes her message. She begins to criticize the prof for making disparaging comments about her age. She says that his comments really hurt her feelings and affected her. I look over at her, surprised by how her message flipped like that. The prof seemed embarrassed and defensive and surprised. My classmate begins to sob and apologizes, saying that as she was speaking to him, she got triggered. I am not sure what to do. But when the class is over, I walk in step with my classmate and ask her if she is okay.
2. I am walking down a street. It looks like it is a street in the Annex area of Toronto. The street is tree-lined and windy. I run into an acquaintance AS. She is unusually warm and friendly with me. She is very smilie. It is odd to me as she is someone who is not usually friendly, and she is not someone who I generally trust very much. Well, actually, at all. It turns out that we are going in the same direction, so we decide to split a cab. During the cab ride, she asks me (in that girly-girly-gossipy voice) that she heard that I was lovers with someone. She told me that she thinks that he is really attractive and that a friend of hers had dated him before. I am a bit taken aback by this news because I am pretty discreet with the identity of people I'm spending time with; this woman is not a close friend so I wouldn't have told her anyhow; and, it is pretty presumptuous of her to expect details from me. she then goes on to tell me that her friend dated him once. She tells me that they met at work, and that they found each other really attractive. But then they texted a bit and it seemed that he wasn't into it. But she was persistent because she thought that there was something special about their connection. So they went out on a few dates and in turned out that they were a really great match. I described to AS some of the qualities that I appreciated about him. She laughed and said that her friend felt the same way. I offered up no other details, and she asked no more questions.
3. It turns out that she and I are going to the same place and we arrive at the house. It is the home of a mutual friend of ours. She is house sitting. The house is warm and cozy and our friend is waiting to greet us at the door. I feel good about hanging out together with the three of them. We're gonna have a girls night in. I miss that about highschool.
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