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So. Shannon, Mary, Russell, and I are driving in Russell's car down Elmwood Avenue, right? We're driving to Delaware Park to continue this whole walking-is-healthy thing. So, we're driving and across the street, walking by Everything Elmwood, is somebody who looks awfully familiar. "Ohmygosh," I say. "It's Ani Difranco." I wasn't absolutely certain, but the face structure looked about right. As did the currently down and curly hair dyed purple.

Shannon was like, "TURN AROUND," so Russell turned the car into a parking lot and we turned back around into the opposite direction. I didn't want to disappoint anybody, so I was like, "You know, it might not have been her. So don't get mad at me if I'm wrong." But as we drove up past Everything Elmwood and that whole block, I found that I am really quite good at spotting people, because it WAS Ani Difranco. Cue freak out.

We pull up in front of the Acropolis Restaurant and I hope that Shannon will stick her head out of the window and shout something totally crazy like, "OHHHMY GOSH! WE LOVE YOOOU, ANI!!!!" Instead, somebody has rolled down my window and Shannon is telling me to say hi to her. So, then, for maybe like thirty seconds, we have a little, "No you, no you, no you!" argument until Ani has walked passed us. Sick of this, Russell says out the window, rather unenthusiastically, I might add, "Hi, Ani." Ani turns around and gives us a little wave. I am freaking out laughing in the front seat of the car.

Other than feeling spectacularly retarded for not doing something or at least saying hello, I feel a huge rush of adrenaline and am totally excited. We saw Ani Difranco! Being total losers, Russell and Mary are not Ani Difranco fans. For the next few hours, Shannon and I tried to reach Jill, perhaps the only other Ani Difranco fan I know to tell her our exciting news. Even though I met her in like, the sixth grade, this was still a huge super big deal. She WAVED at us.

May 11, 2005 at 10:53 PM

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