Encounter

Went again with Boyfriend to the little fish market that we both like and got crabcakes and scallops.

While we were there, a former professor of mine, whom I knew very well in college, came in. She wrote me a rec letter a few years ago for law school and philosophy PhD programs which is still on file at LSAC, but I was so disorganized and also immature at the time that I never wrote her a thank-you note or let her know what I was doing.

I was too embarrassed to say hi to her, and wasn't sure that she recognized me anyway. She stood next to me for several minutes ordering this and that (2 softshell crabs, 1 rach roe, a pound of scallops), while I hid behind my hair and hoped she didn't look my way. Awkward.

In college I really liked and admired her and took 3 classes from her. We were never clsoe, though, because she always intimidated me a little. She was aloof and elegant and was definitely NOT warm. But I thought she was brilliant.

As I was graduating, I heard that she was denied tenure from her department and took an administrative job at the university. I think she was severely disappointed at first, but seemed to like the administraive position when I saw her a year later.

In a rare warm moment shortly before I graduated, she gave me an advance copy of her book to read. It was all about Homer and Horodotus and Aristotle and Machiavelli. It was hard to read and I never finished it.

Anyway. A little encounter brought so much memories. I must be getting old!