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.

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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