[ maybe that comes out too fast. maybe it's reckless and stupid and desperately, achingly familiar, but the words spill out the second the pause enters the conversation, and daisy doesn't take them back.
she isn't, though. unlike poetry analysis or history exams, her coursework ends in projects, submitted and reviewed a week prior to the end of the semester, with allowances for one digital revision if necessary. there's no in-person requirement, no awkwardly scheduled exams in large rooms. just the work that must be done, and if it isn't by then, a weekend in december wouldn't have saved her regardless. ]
My capstone's due end of November. [ she says it both to reassure him and to remind herself. ] I could probably hitch a ride.
[ it doesn't occur to her to think of buying a plane ticket. she is, logically speaking, aware that planes go between the city and chicago literally a dozen times a day, but that's an expense she would never justify for herself — and certainly not one she would think of asking him to justify on her behalf.
it also doesn't occur to her that it's not out of the ordinary for university funding of conferences to cover transportation for an attendant's plus one — but how would she know that. ]
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[ maybe that comes out too fast. maybe it's reckless and stupid and desperately, achingly familiar, but the words spill out the second the pause enters the conversation, and daisy doesn't take them back.
she isn't, though. unlike poetry analysis or history exams, her coursework ends in projects, submitted and reviewed a week prior to the end of the semester, with allowances for one digital revision if necessary. there's no in-person requirement, no awkwardly scheduled exams in large rooms. just the work that must be done, and if it isn't by then, a weekend in december wouldn't have saved her regardless. ]
My capstone's due end of November. [ she says it both to reassure him and to remind herself. ] I could probably hitch a ride.
[ it doesn't occur to her to think of buying a plane ticket. she is, logically speaking, aware that planes go between the city and chicago literally a dozen times a day, but that's an expense she would never justify for herself — and certainly not one she would think of asking him to justify on her behalf.
it also doesn't occur to her that it's not out of the ordinary for university funding of conferences to cover transportation for an attendant's plus one — but how would she know that. ]