I dug up the issue of the Vassar alumni magazine that featured the emergence of real life quidditch. There is an action shot of one of assholes running across a field with a broom. He was in the heat of a contest. The look on his face was intense, focused; the game was on the line and he was in the zone.

Now that I see it, it’s as plain as day but at the time, my brain could not process “quidditch” and defaulted to lacrosse which is what I convinced myself it was. Even when Mary Milan brought it to my attention, I still couldn’t understand what was going on.

I think I said, “Yeah, Vassar kids play lacrosse. So what?”

She left it alone because as a psychologist, she must have known the sensitive place my psyche was in.

On Sunday, Mary Milan TiVo’d Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azerbaijan to mock me.

Yes, she has a pretty good sense of humor and she will see my rollicking sense of humor when I delete that shit.

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