Taking Myself in Hand at a Time of Transition

Take this in-between, through-the-cracks moment, and be quiet:

You are a person made of dust.

If there is glory to be had, don’t reach for it.

If the office is quiet, and the internet is down, go ahead and breathe.

Work will come, or it won’t.

Remember tea in Lachelle and Brian’s kitchen last night?

Remember sleeping in that big bed for the last time?

Remember entering the dorm office, the air scented with something that harkened you back like laughter continuing from a distant room of friends you’ve just left?

Remember that it’s time to go, and that’s right.
Leave now.

You won’t be alone along this road.

But even if you are alone for a while, and your fears materialize: (they haven’t,  yet, but supposing) your car battery fails, and your phone is maddeningly right where you placed it last night and trustingly left the house this morning---supposing all your first and second plans don’t pan out, I mean:

just wait a moment longer.

Your job becomes simpler: breathe and remember.

Someone has jumper cables. You’re someone’s son, someone’s daughter.

The only real disconnection is separation from God. And, thank God! That’s 
something you can remedy even now.

But back to the car: just know that a thousand possibilities swirl around you in times like these.

Raise your head in wonder, reach up, and pluck one star.

You can keep it.

Best of the QuoteDoc (3-Year Edition!)

Insights

“American food isn’t something you need to explain: just put cheese on top, and then eat it… with your hands.” -Vy (2014)

“There’s one thing I need to point out: I said your voice is ‘lovely.’ Did I say it was good?” -Gao (2013)

“Facebook...yeah, I give it 2 months tops before it’s completely dead.” -D’Angelo (2012)

“This looks like a condom package. But it’s actually a love movie.” -Jeffrey (2012)

[In a sing-songy voice] “An apple a day, don’t need to see a doctor!” -Vy (2013)

“Sounds Spanish for ‘I’m pissed.’” -Ben B. (2012)

“The difference between democracy and Communism is that in democracy, you have a cow, and the government takes a percent of milk. In Communism, you have a cow, and the government takes it, and puts you in jail.” -Ivan (2014)

Carolyn: Is there anything you don’t get tired of hearing, Chad?

Chadwick: Yes. “See ya later.” (2012)

“[Chad and I] don’t talk; we just parent.” -Monica (2011)

Carolyn: How unethical is it to use a toaster I confiscated?

Ben B.: It’s called "recycling." (2011)

Exclamations

“F*** my English!” -Song (2012)

Song: Carolyn, Ben died.

Carolyn: What!?

Song: Ben died... B-A-N-D-A-I-D!  (2012)

“You can ask me, I’m a narrative speaker.” -Andy X. (2012)

Vy: Frank, you are dressed like half Ben, half Luis!

Gao: That’s a mixture of disasters. (2014)

“Aww, you would look cute if you had cancer”- Yokabed to Vy, who was wearing a nylon stocking on her head. (2014)

“Hey, don’t be so gaycist” -Vy (2013)

“You have a Moomoo and a Nono. And now a Queenie? Someone has to tell them that these aren’t names. I won’t do it: I won’t say ‘would Queenie please report to the office?’” -Rachel D. (2012)

Could You Repeat the Question?

Adviser: How do you feel, Steven?

Steven: I feel myself. (2012)

Adviser: Frank, in New York, did anyone steal anything from you?

Frank: My father. (2013)

Adviser: Johnny, who are you living with now?

Johnny: My backpack. (2013)

Written:

Andy’s “sickness” was that he “couldn’t move” because his skin hurt when it was touched.  This happened because he took a shower last night, and the window was open.  It “takes a long time” to dry off, and the wind blew on him the whole time.  Ben said that he needed to take care of himself and close the window, but he insisted that he couldn’t do that because it was a was a public area and people would say he was a bad person. -Incident report by Ben H. (2013)

The joy of a misunderstood idiom:

Carolyn: Lachelle, remember that student that tried to hit on us?

Vy: Oh I do that all the time to you guys. (2014)

To lie together vs. to lie together:

(Carolyn to Ben H.) “That’s what our job is, to lie together.” (2014)

Worst-case scenario:

“The first thing we do if there’s a meningitis outbreak is hire a documentary film crew.” -Chad (2011)