dialogue at the mirror, Value World

[fflo]

Me (to the woman looking on curiously as I regard the reflection of myself in a funny fringed Native American-ny decorative shoulder thing---sort of a cross between a collar and a shawl): Kind of a strange item. Don't know where I'd wear it.

Woman: Do you ever go to rock concerts? You could wear it there.

Me: True. Hmmm....

Woman: It has a slimming effect.

Me: Oh, well I wouldn't want that. (turn decisively, walk away, that-settles-that)

tee hee hee

I love when I have something at the ready on such an occasion.

Comments

p.s.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

you know, i kinda like how you sometimes comment a little later than others reading these entries, and we have what feels like a more private conversation herein about whatever the subject at hand is. since most folks reading read as they go by on their friends pages (i assume), and not many would be likely to read these later discussions.

it feels kind of intimate, i guess. and i like touching that feeling with you here that way.

Re: p.s.

[sprig5.livejournal.com]

like sitting quietly at a party after the other guests have gone home. (ah, sometimes it would take me that long to "get into" a party, but that's a different topic entirely.)

i'm working at home on mondays, as you know, and i finally have internet access at home. am in the land of the undead today, as i drank caffeine for the first time in a long time yesterday (it was only "half-caff", but 4 cups) and i ended up staying up til 2 am. reading that book by norah vincent, of course. got up at 7 today--thank god for work at home day. interesting, but john howard griffin and barbara ehrenreich, she just ain't! have to meet with birdie's dogwalker now.

i just read black like me for the first time a few months ago, and it blew me away. perhaps more on my own page if i find the time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Howard_Griffin

Re: p.s.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Do post about it. I've never read it, and couldn't have told you his name, or even picked it out of a multiple-choice line-up, before. But I have heard of the work, anyway.

I didn't know about Self-Made Man until now. I see Wiki-p says Norah is "known for being a conservative lesbian," citing a broken link at the (kinda creepy-lookin') indegayforum.org (which I also didn't know about). I also see that she co-wrote the (to my mind) "whatevah"-inspiring Instant Intellectual: The Quick & Easy Guide to Sounding Smart and Cultured and How to Sound Smart: A Quick and Witty Guide.

Did you get any euphoria with that caffeine?

Re: p.s.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

oh, and i do like that after-party party atmosphere, and, yeah, it's kinda like that