What's a Nice Guy/Gal Like You Doing in a Place Like This?
Why hello there, my readership (chokes on own laughter at pretension of assuming to have a readership)! Fancy meeting you here!
It's gotten a wee bit cobwebby 'round these parts in the last... uh... almost two weeks. This is due to unusual things such as vacation and a departing friend (Annie headed off to St. Lucia via Miami for a two-year stint in the Peace Corps) and a visiting foreign exchange student (that's right - Florian, who stayed with my family during the 2003-04 school year, is back for a two-week visit. Since last we met, he has grown at least three inches, which means that I now consider him tall. Bear in mind that on my scale of measurement, though, there are only two distinctions: taller-than-me, and short. Flo is now taller-than-me. Koo, for one, is short. Hi Caroline.) It is also due to mundane things such as play practice and the ever-necessary nightly watching of at least two episodes of Alias with Ian, Tom, and Dan. But mostly it is due to work. Because I write for work, and if I start to write for fun I end up with all sorts of fun ideas that shove the work ideas out of the way unceremoniously and with a little unnecessary violence, and we all know that ideas lead to trouble. Especially these violent little buggers.
So if you would be so kind, please pardon the dust, and give me a day or so to vacuum and clean the windows and finish writing my latest piece of work for work. Once those housekeeping details are out of the way, I'll have plenty of time for meditations on all or some of the following:
-my vacation in the northcountry
-another instance of passive-aggressive road rage
-my brother's favorite TV show - Laguna Beach
-the day that it felt like it was one hundred twenty-five degrees
-my recent bouts of exhibitionism
I know - the suspense is so painful. No wait, those are the fun ideas stomping on my feet with their little bony toes...
posted by Emily @ 12:32 PM
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yay for emmie (emmy? i should know this) being back! and a bigger yay for the start of the second season of laguna beach! (and yes, i counted down to its premiere for way too long)
"Emmy" in Sleepy Eye, "Emmie" by college folks - somehow the same nickname was ascribed with two independent spellings. Ali wants me to try out "Emi" for a while, to increase symmatricity between us...
I haven't mentioned it, oh giantess, since it gets mispronounced here all the time too. My dad and his brothers actually decided in April to start pronouncing it differently from the rest of us, just for fun and recreation.
I'll now be pronouncing it "Smith", at least until Tuesday.
I had a TF named Emi (Shimokawa)in my junior year. And although she was way too cute for words, that did not prevent me from failing to pass in paper after paper in a timely fashion to her. (It was my only pass/fail course - sue me.) The lesson? Emi is a name that can inspire flights of romantic fancy, but none serious enough to overcome a fundamental laziness. It is a meringue fantasy sort of a name. So perhaps worth a try in these heady summer days.
P.S. I still don't know how to pronounce Lowther. Whenever I have to, I produce the most outlandish diphthong I can in the hopes that the right vowel is in there somewhere.
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