Tuesday, July 17, 2007

a realization

before the age of ten, i could:
  • change a tire (car, bicycle, tricycle, you name it)
  • balance a checkbook (not that there was much to balance)
  • speak french (horribly-mutated, below-average french)
  • cook myself food (if kraft mac-and-cheese can be called food)
  • vote republican (at least that's what I told my father)

in other words, i was a woman of the world. strong. independent.
able to take care of myself.



these days, i can:

  • call AAA
  • unbalance a checkbook
  • speak spanish
  • order out
  • vote however i want to

in other words, i still am a woman of the world. strong. independent.
able to take care of myself.

that being said, boys, a compliment will get you anywhere . . .

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

A Vindication

At an unspecified point in my life, I may or may not have said, "It's only funny when you fall down," or something to that effect.

I would like to point out at this time that although it is an alleged statement, it is nevertheless true.

I would like to further assert that while the above alleged statement may or may not be slightly sadistic in nature, it also illustrates my hidden philosophical depths, as illustrated below:

"It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified." -G. K. Chesterton


Just think about it.