I just met this really nice woman named Cheryl on the stairs up to our apartments - she lives on the third floor. We kept trying to figure out if we had crossed paths before or if we really had gone almost a whole year of living one floor apart and never met, which is pretty pathetic. We stood and talked for quite a while. She's off to France in a bit so we compared notes - I recommended Peter Mayle of course (I wish I had a copy of A Year in Provence to leave on her doorstep with a note... I do have the sequel, Toujours Provence... but would that be considered stalking or just agressive librarian-ing?). We decided we should encourage the resident manager to throw a party for everyone to meet --- they tried it a few years back and it didn't pan out, but there are so many new people moving in lately that it would be nice to have a chance to meet them, and since there are multiple staircase/elevator landings, you only run into about a quarter of the people anyway. I hope I see her again!
Posted by Emily at July 12, 2004 09:01 PM