I have been systematically reading through the archives of mimi smartypants, who is one of those famous-for-the-Internet people (much like famous-for-DC people, I guess) that I can't believe I didn't discover earlier. She is awesome, and I am sure I am subconsciously going to mimic her style, so I might as well do it openly and use a list for starters.
1. Have I told you I have an aquarium at work? I do. It's awesome. It's directly in my line of vision, and I watch my little zebra danios swim around all day. One of them, the biggest one, has taken to guarding the front right corner of the bottom of the tank, where there just so happens to be a very tasteful plastic treasure chest. (My friend R. felt very strongly that all fishtanks should have treasure chests. So be it.) A greedy pirate fish? You decide.
2. I did finally send the letters referenced in the last post. Two rejections and one not-rejection which is really really not yet anything and probably will never be anything, so stay away, evil jinxing kinahurrah eye. Shh. Here, evil jinxing eye, read this part! LOOK OVER HERE: I got one "no new submissions" rejection and one "we like your 'clear prose' but not enough to take you on" rejection. Pay attention to those two instead.
3. I went back to yoga for the first time in almost four months today. We did goddess pose and moon salutes and yay, yoga.
4. J. and I are going to the Outer Banks this weekend for a mini-break, a la Bridget Jones. I have never been there before and am irrationally excited, but please don't let me come back with one of those OBX stickers for my car.
5. Conversation overheard at the gym (between two straight guys, I think, what are the odds?):
Guy 1: So then I said, dude, no way am I going to your house. And she was like, either you are or we're breaking up.
Guy 2: That's why you broke up?
Guy 1, defensive: Yeah! I mean, dude.
Guy 2: I mean, that was totally unreasonable, sure, but I wouldn't have broken up with her for that.
Guy 1: Come on! You would have broken up with her right after that zoo thing!
Guy 2, laughing: Yeah, I guess you're right.
What could "that zoo thing" possibly be? She wanted him to go to the zoo and she wouldn't? She refused to go to the zoo when he wanted to? Something extreme and crazy happened at the zoo that was so extreme and crazy it's self-explanatory to Guy 2?
4 comments:
I did the same thing when I first found Mimi Smartypants (read through all of her archives, that is).
"That zoo thing" is a conundrum. Maybe she has so many pets that her house is like a zoo? If you ever see those guys again, I think you'll have to ask.
What's wrong with her house? Why would going to her house be something to break up with her over? What would be "totally unreasonable" about that request? I feel like she would have used the phrase "home with me" if she wanted him to meet her parents, you know? I MUST KNOW.
Maybe she's morally opposed to zoos because of the cramped spaces and poor treatment of the animals, but he thinks that's ridiculous because without zoos people wouldn't know anything about different animals and they would never learn to appreciate and protect different species, and they were never able to come to a compromise.
I've heard that, um, people sometimes have that conversation... ;)
Ha. See, I -- er, "people" -- totally would totally have that kind of conversation, too... but is it grounds to break up with someone? Like, "I disagree with your position on animal rights and therefore we must never see one another again"?
I totally will ask all of this stuff if I see them again. Although I probably wouldn't recognize them immediately, since everyone in that place looks the same.
Cindy: I LOVE Mimi Smartypants. Nothing has ever, ever made me laugh as hard as some of the stuff in her archives...
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