5 January 2004
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Cheetara: hello me: hi, happy new year. Cheetara: hi happy new year Cheetara: thanks for my gifts I love them me: Damn. I was trying to find stuff you were sure to hate. me: I'll try harder next time :) Cheetara: I like them so much me: well, you're welcome. I kind of went looking for a nice leather planner; the shotglasses were just impulsive. Cheetara: the shot glasses rock Cheetara: they have a position of prominence on my bookcase Cheetara: and I have already started using the planner Cheetara: it is a nice one me: i was sorry there was only one notable woman drinker...but I liked the dorothy parker verse. Cheetara: yes Cheetara: but of course the best one was oscar wilde Cheetara: workign is the curse of the drinking class me: ha! so how were your travels? good time in arizona? Cheetara: wonderful Cheetara: I started doing yoga again Cheetara: I'm very happy about that me: oh, that's great Cheetara: how are you honey Cheetara: was hawaii ok? me: um, "honey"? me: i remind you of jessical alba now? me: which, I can totally see, by the way. just asking. Cheetara: you know Cheetara: I wanted to write how are you Cheetara: and at the same time the nanny said honey Cheetara: and I got an email that said honey Cheetara: so it popped out in the im Cheetara: and I was going to explain Cheetara: but then I thought I'd let it be Cheetara: but then you asked me: ah me: i see me: hawaii was very good me: it was a nice visit me: it's good to be reminded about one's roots once in a while Cheetara: good Cheetara: I'm glad you had a good trip me: i at ridiculously unhealthy foods... me: and toured a coffee plantation me: and took a helicopter tour... me: um ate instead of at Cheetara: you are becoming the king of helicopter tours me: y. maybe I'll learn how to fly one Cheetara: the euro is at $1.27 me: and make that my next career me: zoicks me: not going across the pond anytime soon me: thank goodness Cheetara: I was thinking of goign to spain for last week of january me: maybe it'll help the trade deficit Cheetara: not anymore me: hey i sent out a resume last week! auspicious way to end the year, I thought. bad news: job would be in seattle. good news: it might be fun, a good company, and something I can do. Cheetara: that's cool Cheetara: what is the job? Cheetara: have you heard from them me: not yet me: but w/ the holiday, didn't expect to Cheetara: right me: director of marketing, for speakeasy, a small, very cool, broadband ISP Cheetara: ahhh me: could, I, have, used, more, commas, in, that, sentence? Cheetara: maybe Cheetara: I think I'll cancel my trip me: you could go someplace domestic... Cheetara: I will me: like puerto rico Cheetara: I'll spend the weekend in vermont with anna rubin me: or the grand canyon Cheetara: I'll come down to NY for 3 days Cheetara: and come back up here for the wine expo Cheetara: that sounds like a nice time to me Cheetara: wine expo and superbowl Cheetara: or I may drive up to montreal Cheetara: or quebec city me: sounds like you've got a lot of options Cheetara: yeah Cheetara: much better than packign and spending money Cheetara: all of these other options are more low cost Cheetara: and allow me to see anna, go to wine expo and see superbowl Cheetara: now you are quiet me: sorry, distractions me: real world people demanding to speak to me me: i've been very obsessed with lord of the rings. Cheetara: how so? Cheetara: you think your are frodo baggins? gandalf the white? gollum? samwise? pippin? merry? me: saw return of the king last week, loved it Cheetara: aragorn? Cheetara: yes it is very good me: watched the long version of 2 towers over the weekend me: and the extras on the dvd Cheetara: legolas? me: reread pieces of the books to compare Cheetara: I'll stop now me: you know, oddly for a story I love, I don't think I identify particularly well with any of the characters in it me: Elves more than any other race. me: But i'm not really an elf of action. me: Elrond maybe? Cheetara: elrond? is ? liv tyler's father? me: yes Cheetara: ok you can be elrond me: elijah wood's frodo is easier to identify with than frodo in the book, for sure me: you're galadriel, I assume. Cheetara: oh yes Cheetara: absolutely Cheetara: that's cate blanchett? me: yup Cheetara: yes absolutely me: there are like 4 movies I want to see; I think I'm going to see the tom cruise samurai flick tonight Cheetara: though I could be whats her name Cheetara: the fighting princess in love with aragon me: ah, yes, eowyn Cheetara: I might be her me: someone who fights against the role her society has deemed for her Cheetara: yes Cheetara: I like her me: tolkien's one protofeminist bit Cheetara: soirry for underline Cheetara: ok Cheetara: did you see how happy the nerds were over mars Cheetara: nearly crying Cheetara: I've figured out what is wrong with w. me: ah, is it time for the headline review part of the conversation? Cheetara: he has mad cow disease Cheetara: now I just thought crying nerds were funny me: i can't believe the crocodile hunter married britney spears in an alligator enclosure Cheetara: lol Cheetara: that's hilarious me: bush w/ mad cow is funny, but also scary me: maybe they should test him. me: (course, only way to test for mad cow is to dissect the brain) Cheetara: ha Cheetara: doesn't matter Cheetara: it's all dick cheney anyway Cheetara: I read stupid white men over break Cheetara: it made me angry me: i'm sorry Cheetara: I need to find a way to be more committed to my politics Cheetara: I don't know Cheetara: I'm thinking I need to downscale Cheetara: maybe become an environmental activist me: ooh, a radical? me: like, meat is murder, ban electricity? Cheetara: something has to be done me: live in caves? Cheetara: I like meat Cheetara: I like electricity Cheetara: I don't know Cheetara: I am trying to figure it out Cheetara: clearly our lifestyle is having profound effects on the environment Cheetara: I don't like the idea that I'm just sitting by watching the environment deteriorate and the injustices in our society continue Cheetara: did you get M's holiday email? me: yes! me: she sounds far busier than I ever really want to be Cheetara: ha Cheetara: I don't like christmas emails/lettersz Cheetara: always about what people are doing Cheetara: me me me me me me me: even worse are ones that are about me me me me my kid me me Cheetara: yes Cheetara: I don't know if you know jane doe? me: was she the year after us? Cheetara: yes me: yup, i remember her Cheetara: I wish I could scan in her xmas letter Cheetara: it's a classic Cheetara: me me me Cheetara: I got married I conned a guy into marrying me Cheetara: me me me Cheetara: there are no single men in ny I met him minutes after he arrived proving their are no single men in ny Cheetara: me me me me me: ugh Cheetara: I'm efficient, I'm already pregnant baby is due soon Cheetara: me me me me me: ugh Cheetara: I always liked the number 3 and all this happened when I was 33 Cheetara: it is just awful Cheetara: I just re read it Cheetara: arrrrrrrrgh me: so, when do your classes start up? Cheetara: 2 pm Cheetara: I'm working on an opening statement right now Cheetara: I'm in a 3 week trial advocacy workshop Cheetara: every day from 2-9 me: what? 7 hours/day every day? me: yikes Cheetara: no shit me: just remember, whenever you're in doubt, think "WWPMD" Cheetara: what would the prime minister do? me: perry mason :) Cheetara: so not wwjd? me: what would johnny do? me: wwjcd... ;) Cheetara: johnny cash? me: cochrane Cheetara: wwmibd? Cheetara: what are civet cats? me: men in black? Cheetara: man in black but yes Cheetara: johnny cash still Cheetara: oooooh Cheetara: ok me: they're little varmints with smelly scent glands that are used in perfumes Cheetara: here's one Cheetara: wwddd? me: doctor doolittle is the only thing I can think of Cheetara: dominick dunne Cheetara: it includes the mongooes me: why the interest in civet cats? Cheetara: mongoose Cheetara: china killing them me: i did not know that me: I thought they were a species, not a group of species Cheetara: indian civet is the one for perfume Cheetara: nope it isa group me: they have mongeese in hawaii Cheetara: ther you go me: definitely varmints there Cheetara: the word varmint makes me think of that guy in bugs bunny me: one of those stupid attempts at biological pest control in the 19th c, all of which went seriously wrong. me: biologists in the 19th c must've been complete idiots Cheetara: ummm Cheetara: well, yes me: hmm, hawaii has rats. me: mongooses eat rats me: let's bring in mongooses and turn them loose Cheetara: what is his name? something sam? me: except rats are nocturnal Cheetara: lol me: and mongooses are active during the day me: so the mongooses promptly started eating all the native birds Cheetara: excellent me: we're lucky some other bright light didn't go "hmm, cobras eat mongooses..." Cheetara: ha Cheetara: this would make a good stand up routine me: yosemite Cheetara: indian civets are cats of the night Cheetara: that's it Cheetara: yosemite sam Cheetara: the spotted skunk is not a civet Cheetara: let's just be clear on that Cheetara: civets are nocturnal Cheetara: are you sure mongooses aren't? me: hmm, not totally sure Cheetara: our conversations really should be saved for posterity Cheetara: a new version of diaries Cheetara: stored IM conversations me: i save 'em sometimese Cheetara: sometimese Cheetara: sounds like gollum-speak me: there's at least four online sources that agree with my story that the mongoose species in hawaii is active during the day me: but of course thats doesn't makes it so, my precious Cheetara: wouldn't that be there are and not there's Cheetara: ? Cheetara: you better get this all sorted out before seattle-comes-a-calling Cheetara: in the books the hobbits eat and dance more Cheetara: and have second breakfasts Cheetara: I like the idea of second breakfast Cheetara: I wanted one today Cheetara: but instead I had an early lunch at 11:30 me: there's a great scene in the first movie me: where aragorn is hurrying them on Cheetara: true me: and pippen goes "we've already had one breakfast, true, but what about second breakfast?" Cheetara: I can't remember who I saw the first movie with Cheetara: yes yes me: Aragorn: Gentlemen, we do not stop till nightfall. Pippin: What about breakfast? Aragorn: You've already had it. Pippin: We've had one, yes. What about second breakfast? Merry: I don't think he knows about second breakfast, Pip. Pippin: What about elevenses? Luncheon? Afternoon tea? Dinner? Supper? He knows about them, doesn't he? Merry: I wouldn't count on it. me: hee hee hee Cheetara: yes very good Cheetara: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/31/dining/31BAGE.html me: hmm, i've been hearing for a while now that absolute is eclipsing columbia bagels me: this seems to confirm Cheetara: good article Cheetara: I agree that most bagels are too huge me: quoting: "Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, a professor of performance studies at New York University who is working on a social history of the bagel,..." now there's a life's endeavor... Cheetara: well Cheetara: at least she has a calling me: that's true me: i want a calling Cheetara: me too Cheetara: something that will SAVE THE WORLD Cheetara: and allow me to live in luxury me: need to start a revolutionary social movement that will transcend race, culture, and religion Cheetara: and gender me: and make people behave better, respect one another, and give the organization lots of money Cheetara: right Cheetara: and lots of sex me: or, really, any at all Cheetara: I want a hippe commune Cheetara: in a 5 star hotel Cheetara: with servants Cheetara: lol Cheetara: I'm cracking myself up me: willing, fulfilled, self-actualized servants Cheetara: right Cheetara: exactly Cheetara: actually Cheetara: rotating servants Cheetara: oen week you are a servant me: you mean they spin on their axes? me: oh Cheetara: the next you are the pampered me: that's like the joke about the cowboys on the ranch and the barrel... Cheetara: this is brilliant Cheetara: that way Cheetara: you have equality Cheetara: and you work hard Cheetara: and then you are rewarded Cheetara: and recognize the value of your reward Cheetara: I love it Cheetara: I will call it Cheetara: cheetopia Cheetara: what's the joke? me: lol me: i was thinking 'cheetanetics' me: oh Cheetara: cheetanetics Cheetara: that's excellent Cheetara: cheetanetics at cheetopia Cheetara: sometimes, like today, I hate my name me: cowboy, goes to work on isolated ranch, wonders about, um, sexual release, ranch hand shows him to barrel, says insert sexual organ there, any day except friday, does, gets best, um, treatment, of his life, thanks foreman, asks why not friday foreman says "that's your day in the barrel" Cheetara: that's fucking hilarious me: sorry for the abbreviated version; figure you can extrapolate the full joke. it's a good one me: how come you hate your name? me: i despised 'laszlo' all growing up me: but i've probably mentioned that Cheetara: silly looking me: recall you're talking to a guy with 3 consonants in a row in his last name me: and an 'szl' to boot Cheetara: cheetara Cheetara: looks silly me: i don't think so me: it's easy to pronounce Cheetara: yes it is me: "chitara" would be worse looking, I think Cheetara: and easy for all cultures Cheetara: chitara looks stupid Cheetara: but so does cheetara Cheetara: but yes Cheetara: cheetara nicer than chitara me: Cheatara would just be silly Cheetara: HA Cheetara: aren't you going to eat lunch? me: i usually go around 1 Cheetara: oh me: i don't know what I want though Cheetara: I have very few clotehs htat fit me: maybe a big salad Cheetara: clothes that fit Cheetara: I have to go through my closet Cheetara: and create a suitcase full of stuff I don't wear me: it's nice to be too small Cheetara: it is Cheetara: but a wardrobe I spent 7 years building up Cheetara: meaningless me: and as an environmental activist you can only wear things spun from shade-grown, small-farm, natural-dyed, non-exploitative, un-pesticided, un-GM'd, organic cotton. Or maybe hemp. Cheetara: lol Cheetara: full circle me: ok, i'm off to get a turkey burger Cheetara: where from? me: tony's burgers on 32nd Cheetara: don't knowit me: pretty good burgers me: you can't eat there, tho 'cause you smell like meat for the whole rest of the day Cheetara: mmmm meat. me: indeed :) me: talk to you later! Cheetara: bye :-( Cheetara signed off at 1:18:56 PM. |
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