The Battlefield Where the Girls Say I Love You



That's just the thing: we will never tell you we love you. In fact, we're here only to hold hands across state lines and yell at the world. We're here to try to touch you across this chasm of flown things. Not even that. At most, I will teach you how to make a gin smoothie when there's nothing left in the house. Hannah can teach you several languages and what to do when your car breaks up with you. Thanks for coming out.

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

it's not that we haven't been blogging:

it's just that we haven't. hannah's been polishing her book, which is the most pleasant way i know of saying she's been sweating and consuming numerous french presses each morning. i, most certainly, have not been taking myself on dates to p.f chang's. to see vicky christina barcelona. scarf shopping. pleading to my defiant outback. falling into platonic love with the line cook who saves all the chicken and dumplings, pours them into quart containers, and labels them "mamie's school lunch." also, i have not been flipping between the convention and john cusack's serendipity. and, we've been reading our students' work. i've been conjuring up strange situations wherein the other first graders are mean to morgan. and i, of course, wreak havoc upon their lives. finally, because we're so busy, we absolutely have not been watching jon and heather make edamame on dooce.com. but, but, there's this:

in lieu of blogging

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Widespread Panic? God.

Mamie said...

really? really? i don't think you want to get me started. um, just the other day you wrote "sense" instead of "since" and other such atrocities. it's on, maryland.

eric said...

Let's get it started in here. HA!

sallylynn said...

i love mamie's musical tastes.

because they are also mine.

don't go revengin' in my name.

(mamie: new hold steady album. yes yes yes.)