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Wed | July 05, 2006

The First Five Things

In writing there is the "first five things" rule, which is that when describing something, the first five things you think of are cliche and should be discarded.

I saw my old friend Chrissa this weekend. We did about five things. On Saturday, we walked around downtown Summit, visited Curtis at the record shop, and sat in the park across from the Y. On Monday Chrissa and I had lunch at the sushi place with all the polaroids in front, and then later we all had dinner at Curtis's house.

It was all good but we could have done better. Especially since when we talked on the phone Friday night, she asked, "Is there anything you need to do? I could just go with you to run errands." It's so rare for me to have someone to hang out with in NJ, let alone someone willing to do anything. Yet I couldn't think of anything. Or actually I thought of batting cages, X-men, and bowling... but none of those ideas stuck. Now I am thinking I would have liked to go to Ikea. I bet she would have done that, even though she doesn't like shopping.

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