I guess technically you could say we "met" in September of 2009 in Computer Science 110... but that would be assuming that each of us actually knew who the other was. Nathan knew who I was and I suppose technically I knew Nathan existed—does that count?
Our teacher, Mr. Schaub, decided that everyone needed to know who everyone else was. He passed out sheets of paper with everyone's name and picture on them, and we were instructed to study the sheet because we would be taking a quiz on it the next week. Being the overachiever that I am, I studied that sheet for real and memorized the names and pictures of everyone in the class. I then aced the quiz the next week, so I had to have known who Nathan was!
Nathan, on the other hand, had a distinct advantage since there were only three girls in the class, and all three of us sat in the first two rows—alphabetically.
We were both interested in other people at the time, and at pretty different places in life. I was a junior in college and still super motivated to do well in my classes to get into graduate school. Nathan was a freshman and... significantly less motivated.
A year later, in September of 2010, we met again. For real this time! I was working as the snack shop student bookkeeper and Nathan was the weekend concessions manager. Every Friday night, he would bring the registers full of money and receipts to me and I would count them down and get them ready for another day of concessions.
I remember on the first concessions Friday of the year I was working in the back office when the new concessions manager walked in with the registers for the night with a cocky half-laughing look on his face. The thought that ran through my mind was "Wow, I get to work with a cute concessions manager for once!" I had absolutely no idea he knew who I was and 100% thought we were meeting for the first time when I took the drawers out of his hands and thanked him for bringing them over...
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