Two People Can Change the World

Today, I rushed around going to the Bursars Office, the Financial Aid Office, class, lunch, class, finally got home, did a bunch of financial stuff, cried, laughed, talked to Tony, then went to my room to study for the GMATs.

Take a deep breath. You need it after that sentence.

So then I took a deep breath and got on my laptop and checked my email right before I was going to leave to go hang out with some wonderful friends. An old, dear friend g-chatted me! [Funny how gchat really effs with the spell checker...] This dear friend is part of a pair. Let's call them Matt & Kim (bt-dubs, check that band out, it's wonderful). But their both girls....so...Louise and Thelma. So talking to one always makes me miss the other, because they're kind of a pair. Like, gloves. If you put one on, you obviously want the other one too. Bad analogy. Anyhoo.

So Louise gchats me: In response to my I HATE ALL THINGS FINANCIAL AID RELATED status....

5:46 PM Louise: me too

me: me three

i hate them all

Louise: i hate money

5:47 PM we should revert to barter

me: i agree

5:49 PM Louise: hows life other than that

me: shitty

but, it'll get better soon i'm sure

5:50 PM Louise: just school shit?

wanna tlak about it?

5:51 PM me: not really

i'm actually on my way out

but thank yoU!

Louise: okok

me: i want an email from you

about your life

Louise: ill catch you another time

me: b/c i miss you a bunch

Louise: lol ok will do

me: or a phone date

Louise: I MISS YOUUUUU

me: youre gonna make me cry!

5:53 PM okay i love you

<3>

5:54 PM Louise: lol, i love you too. i guess ill catcha next time

Three reasons why this conversation reflects why I love this pair.

1.) Louise promptly agrees with my absurdly angry status and makes a witty comment about it that is neither pretentious nor stupid. It's just funny. And very supportive. And I totally agree with it right now. (As a business major, totally something I don't support.)

2.) She doesn't ask me about the status, rather asks how everything else is. Important for two reasons. One, she knows I've already been worked up about it forever and probably not something I wanna type out. And two, she probably can guess everything I say, and it's pointless, because it's just Drexel giving one more poor, broke, and overworked student the shaft up the ars, and HARD. Owww, the chafing, you can't imagine.

3.) I say I have to go, and she promptly understands and lets me go. After my 5 psychotic, NO NOT YET I STILL WANNA TALK TO YOU BUT CAN'T, PLEASE KNOW I STILL LOVE YOU last statements.

And this conversation has not just happened once. The same type of deal with both of them, all the time. Thelma and Louise are just some of the nicest, most genuine and reliable people I've ever met. But during this particular conversation, as I started to miss both of them a lot, I teared up. I realized how different my life is now without them right around the corner. It's not like Thelma and Louise visited the Bermuda Triangle However, it's one thing when you can run out of your house screaming because of a stupid little mouse and meet someone at 2 a.m. to let you sleep on their floor, and another when you just have to rely on gchat and occasional drunken Skypes or phone calls.

[Picturing the next time I'm going to eat pie]...Here's to you Thelma and Louise. Two people can change the world (or to be more anthropology-correct 438's world). ;)