9:55AM: woke to aggressive door-knocking sounds. voice on the other side said ‘you have to check out by 12PM.’ i said ‘i’ll just pay for another night.’ the voice said ‘you have to call the front desk.’ barely remember calling front desk to do this.

11:02AM: woke to door-knocking sounds. it was maid service.

4:17PM: alec had sent a facebook message around 4AM. he apologized and said he had fallen asleep. thought ‘he definitely ignored my knocking on purpose. no. it’s possible that he didn’t. he would, though. maybe. i would understand if he did. there’s no way to tell for sure, i think he’d say he didn’t if i asked him in person. whatever the reason, it is okay.’ i called him from the hotel phone. he was at a café with a friend. i said i’d meet them in 30 minutes.

parked across from the café. talked with alec and his friend, alexandra, for a few hours. i liked her a lot. alec and alexandra are going to brown university this fall for masters programs and moved in early. one of the first things alec said was that he tried to call my room at the la quinta inn after he saw my facebook message, but the check-in woman said no one with my name had checked in. i thought ‘shit, he thinks i lied.’ i said that was really weird. we talked about how it was probably a legal issue, they’re not allowed to give out information about who’s staying at the hotel or something.

talked for a long time about woody allen and fellini movies. also another movie about hannah arendt. remember trying to access my ‘hannah arendt: what you know about her’ file in my brain and could only think of something funny zachary said and an essay i remember not enjoying reading in a women’s studies class i dropped after something like two weeks, my first year at depaul. the movie seemed good. hannah arendt wrote an essay about how the ‘evil’ part of the holocaust was that people who didn’t seem outwardly ‘evil’ were nazis. remembered this after alec and alexandra talked about it…don’t think this is the essay i had read. the movie was about how hannah arendt’s friends turned against her and called her an anti-semite after she wrote the essay.