a good influence
Apr. 13th, 2020 02:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Dr. Friend was on the phone with his dad for a while today. His dad is a small fairly hyperactive extremely New York man who is stuck in a tiny Manhattan apartment during all of *gestures broadly* this, and he has very little outlet for anything, so Dr. F is trying to call him a lot to keep kind of a lifeline open. I’ve met the dad, he’s pretty entertaining– very dry sense of humor– and the first time i ever met him was when he wandered into our suite at the end of a semester in probably 1999 or 2000, bent over and looked at the face of then-not-yet-Dr. F who was unconscious on a chair after having pulled like eight consecutive all-nighters for his organic chemistry exam, said “oh that’s not him,” walked onward down the hall, and then came back and asked where not-yet-Dr. F was and was astonished when we pointed to the unconscious dishevelled beast in the chair, but was also very funny and said something to the effect of “Well we knew he was having a tough time this semester but I really didn’t expect it to take that much out of him,” and only after the whole conversation did n-y-Dr. F wake up in great confusion and disorientation to the news that his dad was here to drive him home.
Anyway. Now-Dr. F was talking about how I’m visiting currently, and his dad was like “Oh good, she’s a good influence,” and Dr F telling us this is like “well… I decided not to ask him what he meant, but on whom?”
Dr. Friend was on the phone with his dad for a while today. His dad is a small fairly hyperactive extremely New York man who is stuck in a tiny Manhattan apartment during all of *gestures broadly* this, and he has very little outlet for anything, so Dr. F is trying to call him a lot to keep kind of a lifeline open. I’ve met the dad, he’s pretty entertaining– very dry sense of humor– and the first time i ever met him was when he wandered into our suite at the end of a semester in probably 1999 or 2000, bent over and looked at the face of then-not-yet-Dr. F who was unconscious on a chair after having pulled like eight consecutive all-nighters for his organic chemistry exam, said “oh that’s not him,” walked onward down the hall, and then came back and asked where not-yet-Dr. F was and was astonished when we pointed to the unconscious dishevelled beast in the chair, but was also very funny and said something to the effect of “Well we knew he was having a tough time this semester but I really didn’t expect it to take that much out of him,” and only after the whole conversation did n-y-Dr. F wake up in great confusion and disorientation to the news that his dad was here to drive him home.
Anyway. Now-Dr. F was talking about how I’m visiting currently, and his dad was like “Oh good, she’s a good influence,” and Dr F telling us this is like “well… I decided not to ask him what he meant, but on whom?”
