random encounters.

[lololololola]

it wasn't entirely random but more just a matter of time, but i ran into le_cassy on amsterdam yesterday as i was on my way to my first accounting class (which, incidentally, is going to drain the will to live from my very being). so it got me thinking about all the coincidental run-ins i've had in new york. for such a gigantic and populated city, i've

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[marlenahooch]

I've only been here a couple weeks so I can't say i've had any yet...but I know I will. my roommate has had several in the past 2 weeks. an uncanny number, I would say. how do we know which subway car our friends are in! crazy.

[faux_teak]

Man, I've had so many of these since I've been here.

I think the strangest was running into one of my best friends from middle school while waiting in line for the Chinatown bus the first winter I was here. We then proceeded to not only see eachother a few more times on the bus, but also to run into each other at the farmer's market in Union Square one weekend *and* at a fancy schmancy anniversary screening of Raging Bull in midtown.

Odd. I'm half expecting to see her again sometime in another random place.

[skryche]

And yet I never see you on the subway.

A few months ago I was in the E. Vil. and I ran into someone who had been my boss on a temp assignment... in San Francisco.

[aaaaaames]

mine isn't that coincidental (since he works three blocks from me) but i thought it was pretty weird when i ran into my dad one day on my lunch break. it was like my worlds colliding...i was like, "Get back into my childhood home, where you belong!"