13 November 2003
| Cheetara: tell me to study me: you should study me: it would gratify me if you studied Cheetara: I'm listening to "crazy in love" me: studying is valuable Cheetara: yes it is me: what is crazy in love? Cheetara: I should get some done Cheetara: that beyonce song me: i'm not up on the oeuvre of beyonce Cheetara: I'm not other than this song Cheetara: which I adore Cheetara: http://entertainment.msn.com/artist/?artist=106606 Cheetara: you aren't speaking to me :-( me: i'm on a call Cheetara: it's like you are busy with work or something me: *shock* Cheetara: =-O me: ok, i'm free Cheetara: free at last Cheetara: free at last Cheetara: thank god almight I'm free at last Cheetara: s. has a baby. the baby has a big head me: um your former s.? Cheetara: yep me: um, like, hydrocephalic? me: or just big? Cheetara: Cheetara: just big me: i'm listening to crazy in love Cheetara: I'm sending you a big head me: the music I listen to is rarely about the "so happy in love" phase of relationships. Cheetara: yes I know Cheetara: but it just such a dance-y song me: it's generally about dangerous obsessions, melancholy loneliness, or unfulfilled yearning. Cheetara: it makes me get up and dance me: are you dancing right now? Cheetara: no ... just woke up from nap Cheetara: body isn't fully cooperative me: it did make my toes tap Cheetara: really? me: actually, the way i'm sitting it's easier to tap my heel me: so i'm doing that. Cheetara: ok me: uh oh oh oh oh nono Cheetara: lol Cheetara: nice Cheetara: you are now seeing what's attractive in the song Cheetara: it's thursday right? me: y me: i'm wearing a tie me: ergo it's thursday Cheetara: ok Cheetara: thursday is tie day at carvel? me: is it? me: it's tie day at jupiter me: or are you implying that i should be scooping ice cream for a living? Cheetara: no Cheetara: when I was growing up me: I like how s. wants to "do" places Cheetara: carvel ads would say "wednesday is sumdae at carvel" Cheetara: yes isn't that nice? Cheetara: I was going to ask him what "doing" meant Cheetara: but Cheetara: fuck it Cheetara: I'm also glad that there is a lot to do in St. Louis Cheetara: like look at the arch Cheetara: drink beer me: oh god "Controller of our power transformer factory"... Cheetara: and hang out with a complete joy me: someone's got to do that sort of thing lord knows Cheetara: thank god it isn't me me: Does he alwasy write like that? me: always* me: such short declarative sentences... Cheetara: it was particularly stilted and formal Cheetara: I don't remember him writing like that in the past me: I've attached a photo of my son, William. He was born on [some date]. He is a complete joy. me: It's like one of those exercises from middle school..."rewrite into a more complex, interesting sentence." Cheetara: lol Cheetara: yeah Cheetara: it is not the most dynamic of emails Cheetara: but I guess some energy is sapped out of you when you are the comptroller of a power company me: "Bill S." ... He's going to grow up to be the kind of man who says "howdy, ma'am." Cheetara: lol Cheetara: apparently they are calling him william Cheetara: which makes me shudder me: hey...what's wrong with that? Cheetara: it's just all odd Cheetara: he got exactly what he wanted Cheetara: a boy Cheetara: that looks like him Cheetara: while he lives his suburban life Cheetara: and his son isn't name siddarth (my fave male name) me: um, all the kids will call him "darth" Cheetara: cooler than william Cheetara: and anyway they'd call him sid me: why "siddarth" and not "siddartha" me: ? Cheetara: dunno Cheetara: I like siddarth me: is it a common name? Cheetara: I know 2 Cheetara: which isn't many really me: i don't know what I'd name a hypothetical kid. me: christopher, maybe me: "Christopher Maybe Laszlo" Cheetara: I like Christopher Maybe Cheetara: that's funny me: Cassandra if a girl Cheetara: I used to love that name Cheetara: now it strikes me as frilly me: i just like the 'prophetess of doom' aspect me: I also like Elizabeth. Elizabeth Bathory Laszlo me: hehehe... me: >:) Cheetara: I'm missing the name me: she was an infamous transylvanian ruler who bathed in the blood of virgins me: or so the story goes Cheetara: ahh me: some of the vampire mythos derives from her Cheetara: ahh Cheetara: snack time! Cheetara: not very exciting for you, eh? me: i dont' get a snack me: though i'm going to an event at NYU law this evening me: on games and society me: where I will get dinner Cheetara: for free? me: well, no me: i'm paying to attend me: i got a free lunch today, though, from the Manhattan Institute Cheetara: how was lunch? Cheetara: you are paying for a dining services meal? Cheetara: I'm eating at icarus tonight Cheetara: While it may now draw “less attention than its trendier neighbors”, “all restaurants should strive” to be as “classy” as this “winged wonder”, an “elegant” “institution” in the South End that “soars head and shoulders above most”; chef-owner Chris Douglass’ “sophisticated” New American dishes are “deftly conceived and executed”, and they’re served by a “fabulous” staff that always “goes the extra bit to please” in a “refined” room “ideal for an evening of quiet conversation”; by all accounts, “this Icarus still flies high.” me: i don't know what the dinner's going to be like me: whatever you order, you should complain about melted wax and feathers in the entree me: lunch today was ok. at the Harvard Club Cheetara: badumdum me: had a nice lunch yesterday, at balthazar. It's SO over, but the food is still good. Cheetara: how is hte food at the harvard club? overcooked meat? oh you don't eat meat me: chicken Cheetara: why were you at balthazar? I've never been I'm so not trendy me: nono, balthazar hasn't been trendy since 1998 me: my friend L. wanted to eat there. me: so we did Cheetara: yes Cheetara: but I've never been anyway me: I had cod. with a very bacony sauce Cheetara: yum Cheetara: cod is my favorite fish me: really? me: i did not know that. Cheetara: how would you know? Cheetara: it's not like we sit around discussing favorite fish me: well, we've been having meals together since 1995...you'd think it would've come up in conversation before now. Cheetara: lol me: i like sole, but i don't know if it's my favorite me: i may not have a favorite fish... Cheetara: sole Cheetara: sole Cheetara: .... me: i make a sauteed snapper that is amazingly simple and SO good. Cheetara: really Cheetara: I do like snapper Cheetara: not as much as cod me: chilean seabass, but it's not PC Cheetara: I like that Cheetara: I'm not a huge sole fan Cheetara: and I eat salmon but don't get very excited over it Cheetara: good quality tuna is of course good me: when salmon is good, it's very very good. Cheetara: yes Cheetara: but it is usually ordinary me: yup Cheetara: so I don't have it often Cheetara: except on bagels me: pho pasteur makes a carmelized salmon casserole that is amazing. Cheetara: which I dont' eat anymore Cheetara: really Cheetara: the one here? me: y me: in boston me: i love pho pasteur me: it's one of the things i miss Cheetara: there is one in Cambridge Cheetara: PHO PASTEUR 23 13 17 $18 Back Bay,Chinatown/Leather Dist.,Theater District,Allston/Brighton,Harvard Square,Brookline/Chestnut Hill 119 Newbury St. (bet. Clarendon & Dartmouth Sts.) Boston, MA, 02116 (617) 262-8200 682 Washington St. (Beach St.) Boston, MA, 02111 (617) 482-7467 123 Stuart St. (Tremont St.) Boston, MA, 02116 (617) 742-2436 137 Brighton Ave. (Harvard Ave.) Allston, MA, 02134 (617) 783-2340 35 Dunster St. (Mt. Auburn St.) Cambridge, MA, 02138 (617) 864-4100 300 Boylston St. (Florence St.) Chestnut Hill, MA, 02467 (617) 928-0900 Cheetara: “Pure aromatherapy”, the “huge bowls of” “fragrant”, “steaming soup” prepared at this “local” sextet “inspire regular cravings” (“fortunately, addicts can choose from among multiple locations”); it “deserves kudos” for giving Boston a “sensational” taste of Vietnam’s “delectable delights”, served by a “zippy” staff that delivers “food in a flash” in digs that “aren’t intimidating” for first-timers; the “price is right” too, so even if a minority maintains that the “tame” eats are “dumbed down” for American palates, most insist it’s just “phabulous.” Cheetara: that one? Cheetara: they make a good carmalized salmon casserole? me: yes me: yup me: there's a branch in the Garage Cheetara: yep that one Cheetara: ok I'm at a crossroads me: I used to get take out from the one on Newbury st all the time me: crossroads? Cheetara: crossroad? me: no, i think the s is right me: but what crossroads are you at? Cheetara: it is 445 Cheetara: I have 3 choices at this juncture Cheetara: 1) go to gym and run; Cheetara: 2) stay in and study for another hour Cheetara: 2a) and go to Louis Boston before dinner Cheetara: 3) stay in and study for another 1.5 hours Cheetara: usually plural but singular or plural in construction Cheetara: 2 usually plural but singular or plural in construction a : the place of intersection of two or more roads b (1) : a small community located at such a crossroads (2) : a central meeting place c : a crucial point especially where a decision must be made me: um, that's 4 choices Cheetara: shopping trip is now scheduled for saturday Cheetara: so now actually at 2 choices Cheetara: 1 and 4 me: study me: study study study me: so that you can "write your own ticket" someday Cheetara: interesting Cheetara: I was thinking clearly gym me: we began this conversation with "tell me to study" Cheetara: ahh Cheetara: that was hours ago Cheetara: ok Cheetara: here is plan Cheetara: study Cheetara: and go to Louis Boston Cheetara: might be time for tea though Cheetara: what do you think? Cheetara: do you ever schedule in more things than you can possilby do? me: constantly Cheetara: why do we do that? me: we're like sharks Cheetara: ok explain me: well, you know, they have to keep swimming or else they can't breathe... Cheetara: is that true? me: y me: they lack the muscles other fish have to force water over their gills Cheetara: wow me: we do too much because accidentally doing too little is infinitely worse, and too risky Cheetara: so we overschedule so that we live Cheetara: too much is risky too me: true Cheetara: I nearly passed out today Cheetara: so sharks never sleep? me: i'm going to do very little on my grand canyon trip...though even there, i'm scheduling my time to within an inch of my life Cheetara: ok me: hiking here, driving there, seeing this, doing that Cheetara: that's fun me: um, sharks and sleep I'm not sure about... me: I think what happens is most sharks swim and sleep at the same time...some sharks find underwater currents that they can park themselves in... Cheetara: really Cheetara: what if the current disappears, do they die? and how did they evolve that they can't breathe without swimming? me: http://naturalhistory.broaddaylight.com/nmnh/FAQ_75_142.shtm me: : on another topic entirely, paris hilton did it with Nicole Lenz AND Simon Rex??? on TAPE? what a world, what a world. Cheetara: ah tea Cheetara: what me: that was the best non sequitur I've seen in ages! Cheetara: this is a different tape? Cheetara: lol me: yes, there's apparently a new tape floating around Cheetara: so now there are two? me: http://www.fleshbot.com/archives/010200.php me: : online porno blog Cheetara: THU 13 NOV03 To: Prince Charles Re: Consider Being All Gay Antigesit writes an open letter to Prince Charles: "With all respect Sir, no one likes you. No one ever has. You are the saddest excuse for a prince the world has ever known. You are odd, cold, you don't photograph well, and you're boring. As a matter of fact none of your accomplishments, from your military service to your diplomatic efforts, have ever endeared you to your people. I bet even your Mum likes Andrew better. And with good reason. He's got pizzaz, a wry smile, he's dated porn stars. But you? It seems like you can't make a favorable impression on anybody, your life thus-far has been a senseless conundrum...unless you're gay." me: y Cheetara: that is fucking awesome me: poor prince charles Cheetara: oh yeah me: gawker is very funny me: they find cool stuff Cheetara: poor prince charles my ass me: well, would you trade places with him? Cheetara: ummm Cheetara: rich and royal Cheetara: sure me: homely and slow Cheetara: silly joe me: and no one takes him seriously Cheetara: but I'd be me and him Cheetara: with the good of both me: you don't get to pick only the good things about being him Cheetara: yes I do me: you have to trade all of you for all of him me: i certainly wouldn't do it me: and that's saying something. Cheetara: well Cheetara: I'm just saying Cheetara: hard to feel sorry for him me: true me: if the anglicans are all nutso over a gay bishop in the States, I hardly think they'll go for a gay king in england me: he'll have to abdicate me: and move to san francisco me: and take up interior design. me: i bet he'd be happier, in the long run me: whether he's gay or not. Cheetara: probably Cheetara: he is clearly a tortured soul Cheetara: 5 pages 20 minutes Cheetara: I can do it right? me: go study me: y me: i'm going to log off so as not to distract you Cheetara: actually 6 pages in 20 min Cheetara: no you don't distract Cheetara: I've read 24 pages while we've been chatting Cheetara: plus snack Cheetara: spoke to mom Cheetara: made tea Cheetara: plans for weekend Cheetara: now down to 5 Cheetara: 4 pages Cheetara: 3 pages Cheetara: and windy out Cheetara: 25 mph gusting to 35 Cheetara: in ny 18 gusting to 37 Cheetara: interesting me: i'm seeking flights to the grenadines Cheetara: nice me: y, it's very windy here today me: well, it's not going well so far Cheetara: wind is whistling in windows Cheetara: why not? me: pricy, and not good times Cheetara: how pricy me: i probably should've started this process a while ago me: not awful, in the 800-900 range Cheetara: oh Cheetara: that's not too bad Cheetara: 2 pages Cheetara: 1 Cheetara: done Cheetara: hooray Cheetara: very annoying, though Cheetara: I still have 12 pages to read in the morning :-( Cheetara: no joe me: still working on flight stuff me: i think my next move is to call American me: sometimes they can find flights you can't find yourself me: i wish I had a good travel agent me: sometimes Cheetara: 1) I hate american Cheetara: 2) my dad has a travel agent me: 1) that's fine Cheetara: I called her when I was goign to Australia me: 2) really? Cheetara: I called her on a Monday Cheetara: hadn't heard back by Tuesday pm Cheetara: so I found a flight on my own Cheetara: she caleld me back Friday Cheetara: I told her she's a loswer me: yeah, sucky travel agents are a dime a dozen me: GOOD ones are very rare Cheetara: 3) my friend k. from T. undergrad was a travel agent for a highclass touring firm (she led the tours sometimes) when she was working in NY it was heaven Cheetara: I could arrange cheap trips so easily me: my friend Jared is the travel analyst at Jupiter (he advises airlines on their websites and such) me: he's a whiz me: he wasn't around today, i'll try to talk to him tomorrow. Cheetara: see you have ajared Cheetara: that'sg reat Cheetara: don't want to go out there Cheetara: did you read this past tuesday's science times? me: us air seems fairly reasonable me: i'm off to my games event me: have fun at icarus |
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