high compliment

My friend Monique, who is in Zimbabwe visiting her family there, IM'd me just about the nicest thing anyone's said about me in a good long while.

As an aside, there's something very weird to me about IM'ing with somebody in Zimbabwe. Something about the distance, and my perception of how low technology the place should be. I picture my friend Monique in a pith helmet, with giraffes and elephants walking by, tapping away at her laptop. I'm sure there's zero accuracy to that, but that's what I imagine.

Anyway, my friend Monique said to me:

you're brilliant, easy to listen to--you dumb things down but dont talk to people like they are idiots, you make complex things clear, you have a kind aura (although you are horrible inside) and you're nice to look at.

For context, she's trying to talk me into pursuing a career path as a talk show host of some type. It kind of made my day.