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Laurie Anderson Wrote A Song About This, I Think
A man walks into a flower shop and says... Of the three people I met face to face through the online dating service, only one is a keeper and only in the friend category. His name is Matthew, of course, and he is this year's incarnation of The Aka Demon. Of course. What flower expresses: Days go by...days go by, endlessly...endlessly pulling you into the future... By that, I mean that he's incredibly intelligent, a musician, studies languages, is pursuing an advanced degree in a highly specialized field, very politically liberal but very religious...the comparisons go on and on. Days go by...endlessly...endlessly pulling you into the future? On Saturday, I was having a massage and I told all of this to The Demon Who Always Does The Right Thing (also, conveniently, my massage therapist). I said, "I wonder what lesson it is that I was supposed to have learned from the first Matthew that I'm having to repeat this experience. I mean, I just want to know what it is so that I can learn it and move on." And she said, surprisingly, "There's a flower remedy for that." And the florist says, "White lily." I almost sat up in the middle of the massage and laughed in delight. "What is it?" I asked. "I'm not sure," she replied. "I think it's chicory." Everyday Miracles I called Matthew to see if he wanted to join our gang for sushi on Saturday. He called back, saying that he was in Denver to give a talk--which was a stroke of luck considering how ill-behaved May was at dinner. I mean, several times I found myself getting annoyed with her. She drank, of course, sharing sake with x, and used this little buzz to act like a complete idiot, making passes at me, being rude to the sushi chef and the servers, loudly announcing our trip to the porn store to everyone, telling me to shut up. At one point, I bit my tounge because she and I were sharing some maki and I offered it to the xbry, who had just shared his maki with us. She said loudly, rudely, "Wait! What are you doing? I want that!" And I almost said to the poor thing, who has gained probably about seventy pounds in the last year and a half: "Do you really think you need it?" But I didn't. I just sat back and watched her continue to make an ass of herself. Today's Lesson I was shopping in Vitamin Cottage, looking at squashes, selecting a spaghetti squash for dinner. A woman was stocking the vegetables behind me from big bins perched on a rolling cart. The cart gave way and several of the bins hit the back of my leg, sliding down, scraping my calves. "Oh my god!" she said, "I'm so sorry! Are you okay?" I had to fill out an accident report and I asked for a first aid kit to put some arnica gel on the bruises. And, yeah, it's a health food store, so they had arnica gel in the kit. Anyway, I know you're all worried about me, but I'm fine.
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