Life Unexpected

Today I was inspired to write a blog by a complete stranger. The biddiewatch hiatus might be coming to an end!

I'm currently on the Bolt Bus to NYCitay to spend New Year's and an indefinite amount of time after that (insert standard doubts of returning to college from the best place on earth here). I came very close to not making it on the bus after a coffee date with Tracey and her wonderful asian friend, JP. Being asian is a key point.

They escorted me to the bus at Union Station in DC, and left me to stand in line in Bolt to NY...which I was. I would have stood in that line a WHILE because it wasn't for the bus I needed to get, which left about 1 minute after I got on it.

Seeing as how I was the last to get on board, there weren't really any seats left...except for one next to a cute boy my age, so naturally I asked if I could sit down. He politely moved his strategically placed "don't-sit-here" backpack in the spare seat, and I put my stuff down.

He had headphones in, and I was on the phone, so we are awkwardly ignoring each other. Until the bus driver started saying some words, and I made a joke about how the website told us we were being dropped off at a Sbarro ("the best pizza joint in NY", to quote my friend Brian). He introduced himself! Phew, we are on speaking terms.

As luck would have it, my new friend and coincidental seatmate is a Music Theater major at Elon, where I was a cointoss away from being a student. We start nerding out about music, Tituss Birgus, Miranda Sings, shows in NY, and Florence and the Machine.

Not only that, but he is friends with multiple people in my life, including Connor Smith (shout out)! Now we are FB friends so the world can know our love story. He himself wrote a blog about the small world we live in, so I decided to give my take :)

See his blog here!

Meanwhile, the guy across from us is writing in a spiral bound notebook about fairy zebras in a pumpkin patch with rhyming names...welcome to the city-to-city transport system.