Minutiae

When my best friend and I moved to town in 89 to go to school we sought out a certain type of place to call our place and have tea and coffee at and hang out. Les Amis and Captain Quackenbush's Cafe on Guadalupe turned out to be what we were looking for. As the years passed we stopped going to both places as often as we had and they eventually closed. When I found out Quacks was in it's last days I went in one last time and had my favorite tea and a pastry then took the mirror off the wall in the ladies room and carried it out. No one seemed to notice. I took it because at that moment it was cool to think of all the women and probably men who had looked into that mirror and it looked old and could have been there before the place was Quacks. I had overheard the place would be gutted while I was having pastry so I guess I was motivated to want to keep something for myself. I remember my best friends and I trying to take a photo of ourselves in that mirror once with a 110. The mirror has hung everywhere I have gone since.

I miss Sound Exchange, The Bazaar, Olympia Books, The Varsity, Dressed to Kill.....the drag is just that nowadays. I wish they still showed movies at Hogg or the Union as often as they used too. I'd take a lunch break if the Hogg still showed films during the day. This entry shows that I , ummmm, I've been on campus way too long.