sometimes this old farm / feels like a long-lost friend [brief hiatus]
Thursday 16 November 2006 | I like a cookie
Sadly, the Un must leave you now, for a week or so during which she takes in the many miles of interstate highway en route to (and back again from) East and South Texas—Rice and Pipe Creek and Rice again, respectively. She will return with a black cat, an electric piano, and possibly a few extra pounds of Tex-Mex cheese-enchilada-induced avoirdupois. There may be also some desperate parental-overdose posting, but we don’t plan on it, because there’s also studying for the GRE subject test in literature (though why? since not studying served us so well last week), as well as gulping and shaking and getting over it and approaching referrers; and requesting transcripts and writing Statements of Educational Philosophy and all that PhD nonsense.
Oddly, though it’s nearly 1 am and we’ve been packing and doing the ten thousand things, many with the tender help of the Brujo, who fed us non-Tex-Mex Central American comfort food earlier, at the joint we like to call the Dead Enchilada—ah, the savory black-bean refritos, the chubby gordita-like corn tortillas, the “revolted egg” (huevos revueltos, which Babelfish translates endearingly as “scrambled eggses,” no joke) and that sweet thick peach-colored crema—where the hell was I before I suddenly became a food writer—right, I was saying that oddly, despite terror and exhaustion and general OCD freakout, I really want to go home. Thinking about it, I get (as the Brujo says is still true for him and Cornwall Street of Bethlehem, PA, decades into adulthood) a warm fuzzy feeling which usually endures the first night of my arrival and sometimes even into the next day.
I am taking lots of paper and many pens. And will be back on the ground here by December 2 at the absolute latest. And I love you all more than revolted eggses—nay, as soft, curving fields of black clay and green winter wheat.
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