It was our intern’s last day of work and she gave me this beautiful necklace as a little gift :) She also left me with a picture that she took at Exposition park and her copy of Pride and Prejudice — a book that she was buried under for the past few weeks. She said that if she read it again she’d have memorized it whereas the only exposure I’ve had to the book (I haven’t even seen the movie) was from watching Wishbone from when I was younger (all of my classic literature knowledge comes from Wishbone). Sigh. I’ll miss her. She was fun to be around and very sweet, to say the least.
Earlier this week I gave her my copy of Norwegian Wood, since it’s one of my most favorite books and she had never read it before. She speaks as elegantly as Murakami’s writing, and I think she’d really like it. Norwegian Wood is usually a book that goes well with most people, but I’m hoping that she could fall in love with it for the similar reasons that I did. However, my dumb culturally-ignorant ass didn’t remember that Norwegian Wood had a lot of explicit sex bits in it. It wasn’t written in a way that was supposed to stir anything in your pants (and honestly, even those scenes were sad). And I have nooooooooooo idea if that’s at all a proper gift to give somebody from a country I know very little about. I spent the last hour researching about the culture in Karachi, Pakistan, to see if that was an appropriate gift. I also made sure that Murakami was translated in Arabic :B Must be okay, right? But then, maybe it’s just my ignorance on Pakistani culture that makes me wonder if Norwegian Wood and all it’s talk about porn and sex was inappropriate at all. Maybe it totally is, and that it’s just like any other big city. I just don’t want her to go home thinking, “What is thiss?” If anything, I’d rather have her think that I’m just a masochist who thrives on depressing stories (the last two books she caught me reading were Oryx and Crake and Never Let Me Go. It seems that I won’t be satisfied with a book unless everybody dies in it).
By the way, now I actually do want to visit the Karachi :o A huge city near the beach? I am so down for that. M said that I’d drive just fine there since apparently nobody can stay in their lanes (like me!).
It seems that the plans I had for tomorrow fell through . . . so I don’t know what to do. :[ I want to go to the craft fair, but I have nobody to go with. I wish my sister came up for the weekend! Then we could have totally gone together :O She was recently given the “welcome aboard” talk from a new employer today, who says that she can work after-hours. So right now she will be working on both lung cancer and stem-cell research and she is rolling in dough. She bought me a pair of shoes and I don’t even feel bad. :P I don’t know what happened during the breeding process, but somehow all the nerdy driven genes missed me altogether and landed on my kid sister. It went WOOSH right over me and filled her head. I’m very proud of her though :D
Ergh. It’s 3 am and I am rambling.