QUOTE : Please don’t take this the wrong way, but you’re so weird,” she says. I look at her, or at least her chin, and discover that an offhand comment by Kit can disrupt my respiration. “But good-weird, you know?”<br /><br />Good-weird.<br /><br />Good-weird is what I’ve been telling myself I am for years, when being just plain weird was too much of a burden to carry. Good-weird is the only solution to the problem, when normal isn’t a viable option. Good-weird may very well be the opposite of cool, but I’ve never aspired to cool. At least not the version of it I’m familiar with.<br /><br />“Thank you.”<br /><br />“Speaking of weird, I have a random question for you. What can you tell me about quantum mechanics?” Kit asks, and a shiver makes its way from the bottom of my spine all the way to the top.<br /><br />Miney suggested that I think up some small-talk ideas in case Kit came back to my table today.<br /><br />Top of my list?<br /><br />Quantum mechanics.<br /><br />It’s almost enough to make me reconsider the entire concept of fate.