Social Networking

I feel like I'm more a part of the Fatick team than the Woodland team.  Merely because I act like a Fatickian.  After lunch, I sat around and ate brownies and drank coffee with Kim and the girls.  Then I napped on the couch with Jessie.  Only when I woke up with twenty minutes until our next job did I think to help Sally and Cheryl with the hospital curtains.  Oops.

But I really like fitting in with them!  Last night, Jessie burst in on Liz and me in bed.  Melanie appeared in the doorway, and Jessie threw herself onto us in terror as Liz cried, "What if she'd been a real robber?  You just incapacitated me!"  Then later I remembered the incident and giggled myself into a laughing fit, at which point Liz pointed her iPod at my face to see my laughter, which only made me laugh more.

And today, Liz brought me home from the Forsythe's early in the evening so I could watch The Social Network with her roommates and Mallory.  I have been desperately wanting to see this movie, but no one in Peoria wanted to (and I don't watch movies by myself because I like the talking about it almost as much as the watching it).  I love having friends who share my brainwaves!

And let me tell you, the movie was awesome.  "I'm 6'5", 220 pounds, and there are two of me!"  "Wait, let me do the math....yeah, I got that too."  So good.  The dialogue was Gilmore Girls for geniuses.  Mark Zuckerberg is fascinating.  He understands people so well.  Facebook is a truly fascinating phenomenon, and oh my gosh, how incredibly insane that there is a movie about a 26-year-old?  Who became famous only years before?  The digital age is intoxicating and frightening.

Also, we worked at the hospital in the morning and afternoon.  Good work.  Hard work.  It's hot in Africa.