the girl with two dogs
June 5, 2013
There is a girl —
Who walks her two dogs down the path outside. She is little, about 5’3″. With long straight dark hair, a very white smile, and an hour glass figure a little over what Victoria Secret hires for.
The dogs are small dogs, black, about 20 pounds each. One one is Poodle, one is Terrier.
The dogs were not sure about me and gave me the eagle eye when we first met. One barked. The Poodle, not the Terrier. But they decided they like me. Now they do the dog grin at me.
The girl is really sweet, and not American at all. Americans have these communication rules about insincere greetings. When someone says how goes it or what’s new, people say “fine” or “things are good.” They don’t really answer. They give the polite programmed response. It is a thing.
My small dogs friend doesn’t talk that way. When she stops and I ask some small polite question, she really answers. And tells me stories. About her day, her weekend, what just happened that is news.
I wonder whether this is cultural or she is lonely. I am not sure. But we talk.
It always makes my day more interesting.
Then I wonder whether that is cultural or I am lonely.
I will be moving soon.
I will miss the girl with two dogs.
workshopper makes good
June 5, 2013
and then a friend said, put on lipstick….
May 30, 2013
So then a friend said put on lipstick and fluff your hair and do the Marilyn thing.
So of course I did.
This is not the first time we have done the Marilyn thing around here:
cute new haircut
May 28, 2013
Yeah yeah yeah, ya bastards.
I know most of you have no appreciation for cute new haircuts.
But some of you do.
Let’s go!
oh yez, the chalice wins the prize
May 28, 2013
This is very cool news. Nancy Bilyeau’s The Chalice book trailer just won the YouGottaRead trailer contest. Yay!
Oh why am I yaying, you ask? Doy. Nancy is an AFW student of mine and a 5150 peep and so is Christie, the book trailer creator and founder of Trailer Works — which also created the TNSSG trailer.
Yez, we are nepotism times twelve. Get over it. That can also mean soldiers in arms.
