So after a really crappy start to my Tuesday involving losing a contact behind my eye, white flies on my tomato plants, getting cursed out by a crazy homeless woman and two work crises, one of which required defending myself at length, I received a phone call. From SuJi. My long lost college friend. Okay, she wasn't lost, she's just been living in Seoul for the past 10 years. She's calling from a payphone at the Met Museum of Art. She's in town for 36 hours, do I want to have lunch tomorrow?
The answer to that is YES in spades! This is so cool, I've got to tell Bda. So I email her the news and then as an afterthought ask if there's any way she could ditch work and join us, really not believing that this is going to happen, not with a seriously demanding job, two small boys and the expense of the train up from D.C.--but the effort has to be made. 90 minutes later she responds that both her boss and her (happily) most benevolent and beneficent husband have agreed to her day of playing hooky.
Bda arrives around 11, walks to my office. We go to meet SuJ at Barnes and Noble. SuJi does not know that B is joining us. I approach her, give her a hug and tell her that I hope she doesn't mind, but I invited someone else to lunch. She pulls back and says, "Oh, your boyfriend?" I step back and B steps forward. There were many shrieks in the B&N.
Great afternoon: good lunch/crappy sangria at Pipa, lots of chatting/catching up, wandering to Washington Square Park, took B to Penn to catch her train back. SuJ and I then wandered up to Bryant Park and hung out for another couple of hours before she had to meet up with her host and I went home.
Awesome afternoon. Awesome surprise. We'll have to try another mini-reunion like this in another 10 years, or hopefully a little sooner.
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