To: Jess

January 12, 2006 10:56pm

Subject: The story

Message:

Okay, so earlier today I had to meet with the school psychologist to talk about why I left Yale and why I decided to come back. It wasn't supposed to be a big deal at all. I was completely prepared to say that I had wanted to explore my options but realized that Yale was the best place for me but of course two minutes before I have to leave Logan ambushed me at the apartment so I was already a little crazy and then the psychologist just jumped right into every single detail of my life! I just mentioned spending time with my mom and he was trying to pry into our fight and then he brought up the boat incident and spending the night in jail and I just babbled for like a minute about Martin Luther King. Then I started crying and we talked for another two hours about Logan and Dean and meeting Paris at Chilton and going to Europe with my grandmother and my mother getting engaged and now I get to keep going back for the next two months. I held it together for maybe five minutes and then it all just fell apart. I think it was probably one of those "you had to be there" kind of things.


To: Rory

January 12, 2006 11:32pm

Subject: Good story

Message:

It sounds like you've had a pretty busy day. So, why did you really leave Yale? They didn't kick you out once they found out about the boat thing, did they?


To: Jess

January 12, 2006 11:48pm

Subject: Yale

Message:

No, the two things were only sort of related. It's kind of a long story.


To: Rory

January 12, 2006 11:54pm

Subject: Re: Yale

Message:

You just told me a long story. I think I can handle another one. I didn't have an allergic reaction to the first one.


To: Jess

January 12, 2006 12:12pm

Subject: Another story

Message:

It's kind of embarrassing now. It was a big deal at the time but now it just seems so stupid.


To: Rory

January 12, 2006 12:16pm

Subject: It can't be that bad

Message:

Unless you got caught stealing ketchup packets in the dining hall and they asked you to leave, it's probably not that embarrassing.


To: Jess

January 13, 2006 12:38am

Subject: Fine, another story

Message:

Logan's dad owns a lot of newspapers, so he gave me an internship at the Stamford Eagle Gazette. I worked there for a little while but then he went to focus on other newspapers so my internship ended and he told me that I was a great intern, but that I probably wouldn't make a very good journalist. He said I could be a great assistant and you don't need a degree from Yale to be an assistant, so why put so much work into something I wouldn't even be good at? I guess that didn't really end up being that long of a story.


To: Rory

January 13, 2006 12:46pm

Subject: Another story

Message:

You didn't really believe him, did you? You worked as an intern for what, a few weeks? Unless he spent the whole time reading your articles, there is no way he could even know what your writing is like and how good your articles are. He just saw you as an assistant because that's all an intern is.


To: Jess

January 13, 2006 12:51am

Subject: Re: Another story

Message:

I told you it was embarrassing. I was pathetic.


To: Rory

January 13, 2006 12:59am

Subject: No

Message:

You weren't pathetic. He was an asshole. He had no right to treat you like that.


To: Jess

January 13, 2006 1:06am

Subject: Re: No

Message:

Well, he was my boss so he was entitled to evaluate my performance.


To: Rory

January 13, 2006 1:14am

Subject: Good try

Message:

You would think he'd be a little bit nicer to his son's girlfriend.


To: Jess

January 13, 2006 1:18am

Subject: I thought so

Message:

He's the nicest one in the family, trust me. So the gist of the story is that he told me I told me I didn't have what it takes to be a journalist and I got upset and stole a boat and dropped out of Yale and moved in my with grandparents while I did 300 hours of community service and worked for the DAR while I didn't talk to my mom for six months. Really, it's no wonder the psychologist wants me to come back.


To: Rory

January 13, 2006 1:23am

Subject: Don't sweat it

Message:

Everyone does stupid things. Some people steal boats, some people don't graduate high school and then try to get their ex-girlfriend to run away to New York with them.


To: Jess

January 13, 2006 1:31am

Subject: Re: Don't sweat it

Message:

Well now, that would be embarrassing.


To: Rory

January 13, 2006 1:35am

Subject: Re: Re: Don't sweat it

Message:

Oh now, don't mock. I was being so nice to you.


To: Jess

January 13, 2006 1:44am

Subject: True

Message:

Yes, you were. I didn't mean to mock. Okay, I'm going to go to bed and hopefully forget that this day ever happened. Goodnight!