Tuesday, April 20, 2004
It's a small, small world
Tonight, Victor and I met up with our friend Dylan to go to Mother Egan's for their weekly pub quiz. One of Dylan's friends, Molly, met us there too. I kept thinking I had met her before, and I figured it was probably at Dylan's birthday party. Anyway, we named our team The Last of the Famous International Playboys and started the trivia. We are all pretty sharp people, so we did pretty well.
About halfway through the quiz, Molly asked me if we had met before. She said she felt as if we already knew each other. She said she recognized my name, and she remembered I was from Arkansas. I said we probably met at Dylan's birthday. She said that wasn't it. She asked if I had ever been to Colorado, where she was from. I said no. Finally something clicked, and I said, "Did I meet you in Ireland?" I had spent a year there in 97-98 doing a study abroad at Trinity College. She said maybe. It all made sense to me! I said, "Are you Keeley's friend?" And she was. My overenthusiastic response nearly knocked over a passerby.
Keeley was my downstairs roommate there (and we were later roommates when we went back for the summer after college... and she's still living there now). She was originally from Colorado too. Molly had visited for a few days on her way to a semester abroad at Spain. She said she was there during a play we were doing, which could have only been my proper directorial debut with The Insanity of Mary Girard. It's so weird that we met each other in 1998, in another country, and we remembered each other.
We didn't win the pub quiz, but we did pretty well. Apparently, tigers have killed over a million Asian people over the last four centuries. Christopher Columbus was the first person to bring a firearm to North America. And Jimmy Buffet sold more albums in the 90's than Elvis or Sinatra. Who knew? We did manage to get the magic number as our score, so we won a $20 gift certificate to use for next week's beer.
When I got home, I looked at my photo album from Ireland. There was Molly, smack dab in the pictures from my 21st birthday party. It's a small world.
Tonight, Victor and I met up with our friend Dylan to go to Mother Egan's for their weekly pub quiz. One of Dylan's friends, Molly, met us there too. I kept thinking I had met her before, and I figured it was probably at Dylan's birthday party. Anyway, we named our team The Last of the Famous International Playboys and started the trivia. We are all pretty sharp people, so we did pretty well.
About halfway through the quiz, Molly asked me if we had met before. She said she felt as if we already knew each other. She said she recognized my name, and she remembered I was from Arkansas. I said we probably met at Dylan's birthday. She said that wasn't it. She asked if I had ever been to Colorado, where she was from. I said no. Finally something clicked, and I said, "Did I meet you in Ireland?" I had spent a year there in 97-98 doing a study abroad at Trinity College. She said maybe. It all made sense to me! I said, "Are you Keeley's friend?" And she was. My overenthusiastic response nearly knocked over a passerby.
Keeley was my downstairs roommate there (and we were later roommates when we went back for the summer after college... and she's still living there now). She was originally from Colorado too. Molly had visited for a few days on her way to a semester abroad at Spain. She said she was there during a play we were doing, which could have only been my proper directorial debut with The Insanity of Mary Girard. It's so weird that we met each other in 1998, in another country, and we remembered each other.
We didn't win the pub quiz, but we did pretty well. Apparently, tigers have killed over a million Asian people over the last four centuries. Christopher Columbus was the first person to bring a firearm to North America. And Jimmy Buffet sold more albums in the 90's than Elvis or Sinatra. Who knew? We did manage to get the magic number as our score, so we won a $20 gift certificate to use for next week's beer.
When I got home, I looked at my photo album from Ireland. There was Molly, smack dab in the pictures from my 21st birthday party. It's a small world.
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