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Day 1: Friday, 8/19/2005

I get up for work and have just gotten out of the shower (around 6:45am) and ScholarshipWinner is yelling my name from downstairs. I say, “Just a minute,” rush to get dressed, and run downstairs to find out what she needs. I get down there and she asks me how to get on the internet. I explain that our wireless network is password protected and I can give her the password for it, but I don’t really know how to set it up, since other people have always done it for me. She asks where she needs to enter in the info and I repeat that I don’t know off-hand. She seems ok with it as long as she has the password, confident that she can figure it out.

She also asks to make sure we have free long distance anywhere in the U.S. Uh… no. We don’t have any long distance plan that I know of. Oh, well she made a bunch of long distance calls last night. She’ll have to pay us back when the bill comes in.

I leave her downstairs to figure out her computer stuff and head back upstairs to finish getting ready for work. As I’m walking out the door, I hear ScholarshipWinner calling my name from the basement again, very urgently. What could possibly be going on? I drop my things in front of the doorway, leave the front door wide open, and run downstairs.

“How do I get the cable to work?”

Oh. Use this remote and change the video input. That doesn’t work. Look a little closer… Oh, how did the VCR get turned on? And the cable box turned off? And the TV on the wrong channel? Ok, so she’s not very technologically savvy. It seemed like her method was to push buttons like a monkey in the hopes that it would work out. Explain the set up and the remote. Say my farewell and head off to work.

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Day 0: Thursday, 8/18/2005
So, the plan is set. I will meet ScholarshipWinner at baggage claim at 8pm. I print up a sign: “Scholarship WInner: [Her actual name]” to hold up at the airport. I get to work a little early that day so I can head out early and avoid some of the traffic and get home to make sure everything is set in her room before I go to the airport to pick her up.

Did laundry the day before, put fresh sheets on the bed, cleared out the extra stuff we had been storing in that room, re-vacuumed (although Yenny’s Dyson did an amazing job already), and took a few miscellaneous things out of the closet. After that, I check online to make sure the flight is on time. Canceled. Most of that I wrote about last week download View from the Top dvd .

She calls just before midnight and I agree to go pick her up. She’s very gracious when I get there and we make small talk on the drive back. She tells me how she didn’t sleep the day before her flight and then couldn’t sleep at all on the plane and the whole debacle with the delay and stuff. I find out a little bit more about her and I point out some of the things in the area that have changed while she was overseas.

We get back to the house and I show her the kitchen, explain the state of the living room (windows), and show her the basement. As soon as we get in the basement, she seems excited about Sonny’s DVD collection. She says that she’s not really that tired just yet and maybe she’ll stay up and watch a movie or something. She doesn’t want to keep me up, so if it’s ok, she’ll stay down there. Yeah, whatever. I’m tired. I don’t care. We go back upstairs so I can show her to her room, point out my room and Sonny’s room, and the bathroom we will be sharing.

I say goodnight to her and she, again, thanks me and commends my brother for doing something so nice. She tells me how she “has done so many nice things in [her] life” and she “deserves this.” She’s glad she’s finally getting something to pay her 13 Moons divx back for a change. At this point, she also came over to me and gave me the most awkward handshake-hug to thank me.

So, that’s a little weird, but maybe she meant it as, “I’ve done so many nice things, I’m glad other people do nice things too.” Maybe it’s because she’s tired or some other reason, who knows. She’s definitely weird, but I know plenty of weird, quirky people that I have as friends and with whom I’ve lived. So, maybe this will work out!

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