I can’t talk on the phone as my voice has all but disappeared. When I call Alexander, I need to whisper for him to understand me. My mother is optimistic because she does not want me sick for Thanksgiving. When I speak to her, she says, “You sound better today,” even though I clearly sound worse.
The weather is bleak; a cold rain fills the day. Hair appointments, eating, and shopping-without-buying are pretty much all M and I do. We are even too busy to stop for lunch, but by four we are starving. We are in a mall and find a little stand that serves all-fruit smoothies. But then we pass a Lindt Chocolate Shop where free samples are being handed out. I try an orange-filled dark chocolate truffle and then buy half a pound.
We have dinner at Legal Sea Foods and I order what I always do there--- baked stuff shrimp. What starts as a leisurely dinner ends in a rush. Alexander’s bus from Ithaca arrives earlier than expected. So much for the anticipated holiday traffic.
We get a chicken Caesar salad to go, pick up Alexander and drive back to M’s house. After Alexander finishes eating, and just as M and I and T and Harrison are about to crash, Alexander asks, “So, what do you want to do now?”
Ah, to be in college where life begins while most of the world sleeps.
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