Today I ventured out to the University District in Seattle. It was thoroughly pleasant getting there, and I met some interesting people going to and fro the city.
I went to go see and support the dancers who I know are developing into beautiful choreographers in the UW dance program. They had a showcase in which there were good pieces, and some not so good pieces. But the two choreographers that I know had good pieces. While I was waiting in the studio for the show to start I started talking to the girl next to me.
Hi, I'm Carole! What's your name?
Alexisss she replied.
Alexisss I repeated because she had said it into my slightly-less-than-"normal" hearing ear (the left).
So, do you know anyone here? she asked
Yep, I know two of the choreographers. I replied. Fausto Rivera, and Heather D'Arnell. and I pointed to their names in the program.
Oh cool! she said
What do you do? I asked her.
I'm currently taking a year off, but then I'm planning to transfer to Central.
That's cool, I said, What are you planning on studying?
I'm not sure yet, she said
and this is where I can TOTALLY relate because I have several paths in front of me as well.
She works for KEXP occasionally as a part-time back-up-intern. But she said that she hasn't really gotten to do it a lot. She likes working with/around music and it's fun and exciting to meet/greet/pamper the bands that come to visit the radio station.
I asked her what her most uncomfortable situation working there had been.
Well there was this one time where I had to welcome a band, and I guess I had to get them coffee, but I don't know how to make it, so I made it, but it was really gross, and I could tell because I tried it, but I had to serve it to them anyway, and I guess that was sort of uncomfortable. I mean it's a good thing to know how to make coffee around here!
I agree, I kind of know how to make it french press and with a machine, but not with an espresso machine, that's way to advanced for me right now.
Later on when I was trying to get home a fellow asked me if I had a dollar for him. I said no becasue I'm saving my dollars for school.
He gave me a knowing you're lying smile and asked me what I was studying.
Art I said
Oh so you're an artist! Do you ever look at picturs of other artist's works? You know what, you should look at Michaelangelo, and Rembrandt, you know Rembrandt?
I said that I did know him, and asked if he knew about Velásquez.
We chatted away about artists' names and he said that I should go and see pictures of their works for free in the library.
His light shone so brightly!
As we approached the bus stop where I was to wait for 1/2 of an hour he said goodbye and wished me a good evening. He had three bags and a knit hat on his head. he was missing the right lens out of his glasses and was smiling all the while.
At the bus stop I met a man named Oliver.
What struck me was that he actually made eye-contact with me and smiled, so a conversation was able to take place.
"How is your evening going?" I asked
"It's going well, he replied. I just got back from a flight down to the bay area for a job interview"
Three days ago he finished his PhD in Science/math/engineering. He was quite passionate about what he is doing and I commended him for it. It isn't often that you meet an engineer or mathematical scientist who actually loves what they are doing!
He had shattered his knee playing soccer in Brazil now he has a metal plate, a cadaver bone and seven bolts holding him together while he waits another 2 months at least to heal. He like Thai food and explained his thesis for his PhD in terms that were comprehensible to me. A mathematical way to re-reconstruct something.
"Imagine you had a whole bunch of legos and you made giant buildings out of those legos, you didn't complete some of them, but you did for others, now you then go and knock them down with a baseball bat and take polaroids of them, some of the pictures turn out fuzzy and others turn out kind of ok. If you give me the ones that are ok, in theory based on the stattistical evidence you should be able to re-construct the buildings made out of legos that were knocked down."
Oliver left and I turned to another woman who was also waiting for the 522, she made eye contact too!
"You wouldn't know if the 522 has come yet would you?" I asked her.
"You've been here longer than I have, she said, and it hasn't come in the time I've been here"
She was downtown celebrating her daughter's 26th birthday. Ann graduated with a degree in fine arts in drawing and painting and is an occupational therapist for the UW. Her daughter (the one that turned 26) actually went to evergreen College for a quarter before figuring out that she didn't like it at all. we talked about my plans, my education, and how the budgetcuts will be terrible for the school system. How Community colleges are wonderful places to get education...
And I realize how wonderful God is in creating such amazing people! Making each of us so very unique that it's a beautiful experience to have when you come in contact with them.
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