Mighty Life List
Sep 22 2003

Things That Happend at My Bachelorette

  • Had three seemingly innocent cocktails at the hotel. Noticed I was having trouble balancing. Turns out Vodka, Tequila, and Watermelon Schnapps (with a twist of lime) are pinkly delicious.
  • Almost climbed into a Toyota–occupied by a family of four–because I was under the mistaken impression that it was our cab.
  • Climbed into an actual cab with aforementioned Pink Terror cocktail in hand. This was less of a problem than you might expect, as the cab driver already had a bottle of beer in his cup holder.
  • Danced with another bachelorette’s giant inflatable penis.
  • Thanked my dear friends for not making me carry a giant inflatable penis.
  • Danced with a bridesmaid near a wall of cheering Latin gentlemen. When one of us tipped too far off vertical, said gentlemen caught us, tilted us upright, and resumed cheering.
  • Wore a pink, leopard-print G-string on my head.
  • Accidentally sprayed cherry-flavored whipped cream all over a friend’s blouse.
  • Assured my roommate that it was fine that she was making out with my high school sweetheart, who happened to be dressed as a very unattractive woman for the evening.
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Sep 18 2003

Overheard

Scenario: A 13-year-old girl in a thrift store holds up a trucker cap, showing it to her approximately 20-year-old shopping companions.

Girl: What do you think?

Guy: Of that?

Girl: Yeah!

Woman: For what?

Girl: For, like, wearing.

Woman: Are you serious?

Girl: Yeah. (Puts cap on.)

Guy: It’s ugly.

Girl: You don’t like it?

Guy: No. It’s ugly.

Woman: He’s right.

Girl: These are, like, really cool right now.

Guy: No they’re not.

Woman: It doesn’t look good on you.

Girl: Are you sure?

Woman: Very, very sure.

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Sep 17 2003

Stuff I Learned from Reading

  • How to figure out when it’s your dream. From O Magazine’s interview with Salma Hayek:Salma Hayek: …This is one thing I learned: How do you recognize what is your true dream and what is the dream that you are dreaming for other people to love you?

    Oprah: How?

    SH: The difference is very easy to understand. If you enjoy the process, it’s your dream.

    O: Correct.

    SH: If you are enduring the process, just desparate for the result, it’s somebody else’s dream.

  • I want to read Common Shock by Kaethe Weingarten. O’s book reviewer describes the premise like this: “In a society rampant with binary thinking–good versus evil, us versus them–how do we move toward understanding and forgiveness of those who are different? How do we hold onto hope and let go of fear?”
  • I’ve been watching too much T.V. Painter Robert Henri says, “You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a certain thing: wanting it so much that you are practically blind to all other things, that nothing else will satisfy you.”
  • North Koreans are living in an Orwell novel. From this week’s New Yorker, “Alone in the Dark” by Philip Gourevitch:”Pyongyang is North Korea’s model city, full of model schools and model hospitals and model people: residence is reserved for the Party’s chosen, the political and military elite, the commissars and cadres and their most faithful followers, and the population is regularly cleansed of those deemed ideologically lax, as well as the old, the sick, the disfigured, and the lame, who are banished to the provinces and replaced by a fresh crop of loyalists.”
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    Sep 16 2003

    Aperture

    Jish put together a sandcastle-building party last weekend. Heather, who is a very inspiring person to have around, set up her pinhole camera and took a lovely photo of me.

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    Sep 15 2003

    Animism

    Whenever I change from TiVo back to live TV, the station is invariably tuned to “RV Today” or a Cantonese news program. I’m pretty sure our TiVo is a 75-year-old Asian man.

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