Mundane Turbulence

I had a kinda strange experience this past Friday…

I was heading to my sister’s house for a Halloween party (decked out in possibly the easiest costume I have ever put together – I was a bandido, all sombrero and blanket-from-my-couch clad), walking down the Park Street red-line stop. From the other side of the track, this dude yelled out, “Harvard ’09!” Because, basically, I am in fact graduating from Harvard (granted, the Extension School) in the class of 2009, I thought I would turn around to see who was calling out. The guy was costume-less, and I didn’t know him from Adam, but as soon as I looked at him, he started pointing at me, yelling, “YOU! YOU!” Taken aback by this weirdness, I vaguely pointed back at him and then awkwardly kept on walking.

So. How the hell did this person know this information about me? Sure, they could be one of my thousands of secret blog readers, who had simply put together the facts from my posts…but wouldn’t that person have known my name? Who exactly would remember my graduation information, but not my name? And I doubt it was someone from one of my classes, because if they’d known that info, I would’ve recognized their faces…it’s not like we all share our dates with other students or something – and certainly at least not in any memorable fashion (I sure don’t remember doing it).

Or maybe Pointy was just randomly yelling graduate date information, assuming that someone would be graduating during that time and from that institution? Seems unlikely, but so does the rest of the situation. WHO IS THIS MYSTERY MAN, I ask!

Then again, he may have seen my awesome costume and just assumed that I’d be the kind of genius with an impending Harvard graduation. Totally likely. *ahem*