Yesterday, I read my friend's blog.  Like, the whole thing.  One time he said he always thought I looked like Cate Blanchett, but I saw her in Indiana Jones, and she was really good at being ugly.
But after reading his blog, I felt extensively writy.  Everything that I did seemed like it would make a really good blog.  I'm going to write the things that I remember now.  I went to this store by the place where I work.  It was a ritzy place with all sorts of aesthetic kitcheny things that you could just stare at.  There was a battle there, because I might be rich someday.  And I couldn't help but hope for it so I could have some kind of aesthetic kitchen.
It was beautiful when I saw it.  Salt and pepper shaker and a butter dish with a nice little spreader.  They looked like metal instruments - sleek and simple and new.  Perfect for tinking.  And when I say perfect, I mean perfect.  I try not to use that word loosely, because I think it's very rare that perfect exists, if ever.  But no one under the age of old could have helped themselves.  I felt, at that moment, as though I was born to tink that piece of aesthetic kitchenware.  And the sound.  I have goosebumps; and I'm not even cold.  Or worse, I'm not even kidding.
That's when a foghorn interrupted my kitchen music.  "Can I help you."  But it wasn't a question.  It was a definite reprimand.  "That is stainless, and if you keep doing that, you're going to scratch it."  I think she asked me again because she wanted me to leave.  "Can I help you with something."  She glared at me.  I wanted to walk up to her and stick my nose right up to her neck (because that's where it would've naturally gone) and yell, "No!  I'm POOR!" (with a "p" that would've made her neck wet) and then stay in the store for a long time just to spite her.  But I didn't.  I said, "No.  I'm just looking."  She probably thought, "No. You're tinking and you're ruining all of my aesthetic kitcheny things."  I lingered for another moment and then strolled out like Meg Ryan would've, with my nose slightly in the air, but my step still playful.  At least, I like to think Meg Ryan would've done it like that.
I wish he would've said that he's always thought I looked like Meg Ryan.  But then I would've fallen madly in love with him, because he was tickling my ears.  So I guess the femi-nazi in Indiana Jones does the job just fine.
Monday, July 14, 2008
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