L.A. Connaissance
7.
The Line Between
Have you ever had that dream where you're two years old alone in the park and
some random old man gives you a shiny silver balloon and tells you that it has
magic powers only instead it turns into a frog and eats you?
Yeah, me too.
Only not recently. In fact, I may have made that up just now. I don't really
remember. Excitement does that to people you know. I don't mean turning them into
compulsive liars, i mean that it can make then extremely excitable.
And oh I am.
Why?
Okay, seriously, you're on like part 7 of my extremely-well-written memoirs and
you're still asking this? Okay okay fine. (whispering) it's michael.
Okay, so, the last thing I told y'all about was me completely humiliating
myself and going against basically all the rules of womanhood by telling him
that I might be vaguely interested in him. I mean I don't think
"you know perfectly well by now that I think that you're attractive and I
came all this way to talk to you and I had to pretend to understand that
secretary's directions and then pretend and lie about some malfunctioning
account… and you're still being egotistical enough to ask me what I'm doing
here." is that clear right? There's still the chase right? RIGHT?
Yeah, I thought so. He still wants me... I mean even if you/I/anonymous woman
were just the teensiest bit forward and aggressive, it doesn't mean that
you/I/random woman are/am/is suddenly condemned as sluts that no one wants to
deal with!! Oh god... I shouldn't have done that... He's definitely not going
to call.
I mean who would call a lowly "bank teller" who lies to the CIA,
worries about getting poof-tahs whenever she sees a wrinkle, and talks to her
shirt in hopes of persuading it to stretch itself and make the neckline lower?
And it gets even worse when you take a look at the people that claim to be my
friends... I mean come ON! Marcy with hair big enough to make up for Rob's
own...deficiencies where size matters and then Rob himself... Chicken farm date
boy who, despite his chicken noodle, makes love so weirdly that the noises his
"lover" makes sound like those of a dying sea monkey with no eyes and
16 ears!!!!!!
God. Oh GOD what the hell was i thinking?
Okay you guys... This is what i wrote about 2 months ago. And I think it might
be dead. Maybe when I'm stressed, I'll deal with it with humor again. And
Junior Year spells out stress so you may see more of this story sooner than you
thought...
that is... If any of you still remember this... Or like it anymore... Or read
it... Yeah.
Let me know what you think.
-jenn
