Hello?
Hi. Is this Kelsie? Yes it is. Who is this?
Kelsie, my name’s Trevor Calero. I’m the magazine editor at The Michigan Daily and we’re doing this new thing called Random Student Interview. You’re the first one. I was wondering if you’d be willing to do an interview with me? Yeah, I guess that’s OK. I’m in the car right now but I have a little bit of time.
Are you driving? Yes I am.
I don’t want you to get into a car accident because you’re talking on the phone. Oh no, it’s fine. Don’t worry about it.
OK. What were your new years resolutions? One was to exercise every day.
You and every other student at the university. Yeah, I know. That’s annoying. Because the gym is always packed the first month of the year.
Why do you think that is? Just cause everyone falls off their resolution.
Are you going to fall off? I hope not. What’s your resolution?
Mine’s just as lame as yours, to eat healthier, which is extremely ambiguous and really means nothing.
[Laughs.]
And also to go to the gym more, so I’ll be seeing you there.
[Call cuts out.]
[Ring, ring, ring.]
Hey sorry I think I cut out.
No, that was my fault, someone was calling and I tried to ignore them but I just turned the phone off. So are you curious how I got your number? I’m guessing it was off of the umich directory.
No. So I was randomly Facebooking people and trying to find people who published their phone numbers online, but it’s harder than I thought. But one of my friends went on one of those, I-lost-my-phone-so-can-you-give-me-your-number Facebook groups, Mandy (last name removed), my friend knows Mandy, and you are friends with Mandy. Oh, wait, that’s so creepy. Mandy and I went to middle school together.
Well, you gave Mandy your cell phone number on Facebook. Wow, I’m not going to lie, that’s a little creepy.
It’s a little creepy. How does it make you feel that some random guy can look up your number on the Internet? I think I might take it off.
So who’s this girl on your Facebook profile pic? Oh, that’s one of my friends. This is really creepy.
Yeah. But I guess everybody Facebook stalks.
Do you Facebook stalk? Of course you do. Whats the worst Facebook stalking you’ve ever done? The worst?
Yeah, the thing you’d most regret if other people knew. The most time I Facebook stalk is when I have a big exam and ...
Oh I’m not talking about that. I’m talking about, like, creeping on some boy, or an ex-boyfriend ... I think that creeping on an ex-boyfriend is understandable.
Have you ever met someone and all you know about them is their first name and what they look like, and then you spend hours on Facebook trying to find their profile? I don’t think I’ve ever done that.
Yeah, I’ve done that.
[Awkward laughing.]
So if you meet a girl, and you learn her first name and you know who she’s friends with ... so you kind of have this trail to track her down. But then it’s, like, she doesn’t remember me, and she obviously didn’t want to remember me cause she didn’t give me her last name, so do you friend her? I don’t know. It’s very tricky. That’s true.
I’ll let you go now, you probably have to be somewhere.