What's Your Flavor?

I had this though that people's personalities can be characterized in food terms. I've decided that I am Key Lime Pie.

That's it. No elaboration. Discuss amongst yourselves.

Friday is a good thing

The story of my love life isn't even a tragedy anymore. It's just boring. Here are my thoughts (which is kinda the point of a blog isn't it) ....

I've been contemplating my situatuion with the fireman and the fact that I've been unable to establish complete radio silence with him. I think I need to have one last great round with him. Then I can just erase his number and all traces of his previous existance. I truly can do that. But I really want to take one more wild ride first. Is that crazy? The answer is plausibly yes, but I don't seem to care about that. I want it, even if it's a terrible plan. Then I can move on. Right?

The AB thing is also an issue. Everytime I get togther with this man, I end up getting together with this man. It's ridiculous. Especially considering that we spend most of our time leading up to that with me giving him advice on how to repair his invariably screwed up life. But there's just something about the way he looks at me with his flashing blue eyes, like he can somehow see through me, that affects me every time. And after years of being friends with him, he can still say something that totally surprises me, then follow that up with doing something that I could have predicted to a tee. Anyway, I know that he's a terrible option, so I leave him alone, but some days he just gets to me.

Then there's the great unknown aspect. I am meeting no one, or at least no one that I can even remember an hour later. I'm going out to French Quarter Festival this weekend, maybe my luck will turn. At this point I'd just like to go out on a nice date or two. It doesn't have to be a love connection (although I wouldn't mind that either). Anyway, that's enough gripes for today. Here's hoping that the tide is about to turn.

Mine broke

Someone buy me this. I have moments to capture.

I won't hold my breath. LOL

A Glossary of Ignorance

Last week my mother called me and asked for a favor. Moms is a professor at a HBCU and wanted me to gather some interesting words for her class. She requested 20 words that were not to obscure and could be easily used in intelligent conversation. I got a little carried away and listed 45 words and brief definitions for each. Here are the words (in no particular order):

1. temerity: unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger.
2. esoteric: intended or understood by chosen few.
3. elucidate: to make clear or manifest.
4. feckless: ineffective; weak; worthless
5. laconic: using or marked by the use of a minimum of words.
6. egress: the act of going out or leaving; exit
7. subterfuge: a deceptive device or stratagem.
8. copacetic: very satisfactory
9. ennui: a feeling of weariness and dissatisfaction arising from lack of interest.
10. dissolute: loose in morals and conduct
11. trepidation: a state of dread or alarm; apprehension
12. taciturn: not inclined to talk
13. expunge: to strike out or erase; to obliterate
14. sedition: incitement of rebellion against lawful authority
15. malcontent: one who is discontented or dissatisfied
16. stanch: to stop the flowing of; to check
17. acrimony: bitter, harsh, or biting sharpness
18. treacly: overly sweet or sentimental
19. chicanery: the use of trickery to deceive
20. implacable: incapable of being pacified
21. sporadic: occurring singly, or occasionally, or in scattered instances
22. cacophony: harsh or discordant sound
23. inveterate: deep-rooted; of long standing
24. denizen: an inhabitant
25. halcyon: peaceful; undisturbed; happy
26. deride: to laugh at with contempt
27. ubiquitous: being everywhere.
28. exculpate: to clear from alleged fault or guilt
29. diaphanous: allowing light to pass through
30. bellicose: inclined to or favoring war or strife
31. contrite: feeling or expressing grief and regret for sins or offenses
32. tirade: a long angry speech.
33. filial: of, pertaining to, or befitting a son or daughter
34. crux: the essential point or feature
35. inscrutable: difficult to fathom or understand.
36. obsequious: servilely attentive; fawning
37. missive: a written message; a letter
38. encumbrance: a burden, impediment, or hindrance
39. abscond: to depart secretly.
40. proclivity: a natural inclination.
41. recalcitrant: stubbornly resistant to and defiant of authority or restraint
42. collude: to act in concert; to conspire
43. sycophant: one who seeks favor by flattery; a toady
44. capricious: whimsical; changeable
45. predilection: an established preference

So, my mother takes these words to her class and asks them how many of the words they know. It's a vocabulary building exercise, you see. It turns out, that in a class of 20 people, the average amount of words known per student was 3. THREE!!! I am aware that these are not quite on the level of see Dick run, but these are college students. They should know more than three of these terms. Did I mention that these are journalism students? That my mother is a journalism professor and the publication director of the campus newspaper? And that several of these students are involved with said newspaper? I can't take it. I really can't. This is too sad. Apparently, there was one girl who knew 5 words and the rest of the class wondered where she went to school (as if she might have said The High School of Super Nerds).

Wow, I guess a mind really is a terrible thing to waste. What the UNCF didn't tell you is that plenty of kids are going to college without ever having their minds engaged. Or at least not engaged by lexicon.

Maybe I'm overreacting. After all, I am a super word nerd, who used to read the dictionary and encyclopedia for fun. But this seems tragic to me. What do you think? How many of the words do you know?

Deja View

Apparently I'm not the only person still nursing an innappropriate love for Vin Diesel. Fast and Furious made $100 million worldwide on it's opening weekend. That is crazy! I love it. You can bet your ass there'll be another sequel. I hope my favorite sexy gravel-voiced, balding, pectoral heavy action star will be back. (I say favorite because I have more than one. LOL)

Anyway, leaving this movie I had a bit of a flashback to the time I saw the first movie. I recall that both Mauro & I were super excited to see it, for completely different reasons. But what struck me is how remarkably my life has changed since then. I looked up the release date of The Fast and the Furious (as opposed to F&F) and it came out in the summer of 2001. At that time I was still in Houston, working at NAMC, just a few months gone from Bombay. I lived on Timberside, and hung out at the Davenport and danced at the Gallant Knight. But most of all, I was in a completely different space, mentally and emotionally. It feels like a lifetime ago. I will definitely say that I haven't fully completed the task of growing up, but I look back at who I was just 8 years ago and I feel so much older and wiser. I guess that's what time does for you.

If only I could have had the 10 cent martinis

I enjoyed a wonderful extended lunch today with my favorite VP. We went to Bacco and I ordered the 2 course pasta lunch special. I had Lemon Parmesan Salad and Crawfish Farfalle. Delicious! It was only $15 and she paid. Not a bad way to spend a Friday afternoon.

Don't hate because you can't be like me. LOL

Spring has sprung

Today I'm feeling really good about the upcoming seasons (festival season, travel season), so I'm giving myself some flowers. Yes these are only pictures, but if I'm going to enjoy these seasons, I can't be spending money on real flowers. I'm broke. LOL.

Anyway, I posted some more gorgeous flowers on my photoblog. Check it out.

Choices

I know two things to be true. I don't just mean that I believe them, I KNOW with an unwavering will that they just ARE.

1 - Romantic relationships with good friends do not work.

2 - Long distance relationships do not work.

Those two things are the reason why I continue to stick to the decision that I have made (as difficult as that can be sometimes). That is all.

Paging Joey Greco

This program is both dedicated to the faithful and presented to the false-hearted to encourage their renewal of temperance and virtue.

I am not a person who thinks that all men (or people for that matter) cheat. I am however, a believer in keeping it simple. For the most part, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a freaking duck. I don't know why that is such a hard concept to grasp. It's not me thinking the worst of people; it's me being realistic about the nature of people and our poor choices. In the past few months I have had more than one friend who suspects that their significant other has strayed. And on at least 2 occasions the suspected parties (who I still believe cheated) has basically just said that they didn't cheat and the whole thing gets dropped. Now I am aware that I don't have to live in other people's relationships and that the choices they make are their own. But I must confess, I just don't get it. Is it that people just don't want to believe that infidelity could happen to them, or do they just truly have that much faith in people who typically have already demonstrated their untrustworthiness? I don't know, it's all greek to me. Anyway ...