day two: Words are working hard for you

nablopomo Whenever a particularly good, interesting or significant email comes my way, I will quickly move it to my “personal” box and promptly forget about it. This is why I have 477 messages in this box. I guess that’s not bad, considering this archive goes back to 1999, but still! Electronic pack-rat am I.

I particularly like to keep little bits of prose that make me happy. Well-written, kind, funny gems that spring from the minds of my pals (and other sources.)

In this installment, we will focus on boy-talk/gossip and accompanying advice, news and observations from my girlfriends (and one anonymous magazine scribe).

From Jeanie, after she filled me in on some juicy news (2000):

So all this and more is yours on your next stop to the gossip shop located just to the right of whereever I am.

My friend Nora and I would get epic, boy-talk email threads going for weeks. Here’s a choice observation from 2000:

men can be pretty awesome — in moderation.

From my mom just post-9/11, after I starting seeing someone (caps hers):

DATING SOUNDS GOOD. HOPE IT GETS BETTER AND BETTER. A NICE ROMANCE MIDST THE RUINS OF OUR NATIONAL LIFE IS WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERS.
LOVE, MUMSY, M.D.

Classic girlfriend support from Alison after I briefly dated a really inappropriate man (2001):

what a dumbo asshole dickweed.

This is one, not from email, but seared on my memory. From Esquire Magazine, in one of their “Dubious Achievement” issues (date unknown):

Michael Flatley is a “wet-chested twinkletoes bent on world domination, one desperate woman at a time.”

5 Comments

  1. ANDREW on November 2, 2006 at 8:29 pm

    As a newly-christened emailer back in October of 1999, I received my first email from Becky, congratulating my upon my techno-step and informing me that

    “I told a select, trusted few about “the dare.”
    Really there are only 2 camps: utterly appalled or completely freaked. Also, there is a clear 50-50 division regarding which dare people would rather do: sock or gum.”



  2. Dagda on November 2, 2006 at 8:42 pm

    Oh to have trailed my fingers down the wet and self-importantly-heaving-chest of the LORD OF THE DANCE!!! Seventeen year old me would have happily volunteered to be a stepping stone to world domination. Seriously.



  3. me on November 2, 2006 at 8:47 pm

    Wow, a lot of information in these two comments, eh? Andrew’s: shrouded in tantalizing mystery. Dadga’s: laid out bare for the world to gawk at.



  4. Scatter on November 3, 2006 at 8:21 am

    Gosh I can’t believe:

    “it’s the real you and guess what.. you’re a tool.”

    didn’t make your list!!

    So on another topic – you will see on my blog that I have NO FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS..but you do… :::grin:::



  5. kerri on November 15, 2006 at 10:32 am

    I thought Michael Flatley was gay…