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[Thursday 14 Feb 2002|02:05p] |
so yesterday I went into work for an hour [cos I slept through most of my shift, WHY havent they fired me yet?] and chari was complaining about not being able to see her boyfriend on valentine's day cos she has to work. 'at least you HAVE a valentine,' I told her. 'you can be my valentine, stacy k! then you can go out to dinner with darrin, since I wont be able to.' 'oh good, we can be each other's platonic valentines. how comforting.'
and that's the story of how I got to be a valentine to a heterosexual couple.
yeah, then I went to film class. bekki was in the middle of having a panic attack/being in love with her best friend, so she really didnt talk to me. we watched this movie, strangers in good company, and it was all about this group of women in their 70s to 80s who got stuck in this abandoned old house when thier tour bus broke down. it started out fine enough, but all the women started talking about death and leaving their children behind and crying, so by the end of the movie, I was in tears. the part that got me the most was the character Constance. she looked EXACTLY like my great grandmother - the one who raised me as a child and is more like a mom to me than anyone else. the one who died of a heart attack when I was in 6th grade. the one whose last conversation with me, I remember just being exasperated at how much she was talking, I wanted to get off the phone so I could play sega. so yeah.
constance was depressed and fragile and really couldnt do much of anything in the movie, so she just sat and watched as everyone worked. by the end, she was dumping her heart medication in the lake, saying, "I'd rather die here than in some hospital or nursing home."
the movie ended, I was shaken, my brother asked me 'what's wrong', and I just burst into tears. he walked me to the bathroom, but when I tried explaining about it, I ended up collapsing into his arms in the middle of Gore Hall.
maybe everything else is manifesting itself in that thing this semester, but I havent cried like that in a LONG time. and in public, too. sigh. what is going on?
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