Saturday, 29 March 2008

  • Simple things

    Quick break from working/studying:

    It’s sunset time. I step out of Beverly Cleary, dressed in an overworn gray shirt and training shorts. My running gear. The first thing I notice is rain. This entire week has been sun and shine, and at the very moment I decide to get off my bed and do something physically productive, the sky decides to rain. On the other side of Channing Street, John waves. He’s finally back from spending his break at home (and abandoning us poor 4th floor kids… jk!). He asks if I’m going to RSF. I say maybe, because I hadn’t been considering it until he asked at that moment, and with the rain and all, it seems a reasonable option. But as soon as I depart, my feet are taking me away from RSF to the Berkeley campus. Very typical of them :)

    I’m one of many people running in the rainy weather, surprisingly. And it just happens that one of the people I run past keeps staring at me as if thinking the same thing, ‘why the heck is she running in the rain too?’ I stare back, then decide to acknowledge our common experience by tossing at her a happy grin and an over-the-head thumps up sign. I must look funny, because with my other hand I’m holding up the phone against my ear. But she breaks into a smile, waves, then runs past me. She paces herself well.

    The rain, the smile, the sweat. So simple. But they basically made my day.

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