Remain Funny

One of my regular clients, Peeves, came to the bank today, looking frostbitten and truly glum. He asked how I was, expecting me to say “well,” which I did. I asked how he was, expecting him to make a gibe about how he’s the opposite of “well,” which he did. We tend to joke about how I’m the happy one, and he’s the sad one. “Somewhere there’s an average,” Peeves said. I thanked him for his business and said, “You really don’t look happy.” Usually, he is full of momentum, fired up about how horrendous everything is. Today, he looked absolutely mournful. He said, “Thank you for cheering me up,” and, then, he slipped in a joke. “This,” he said, referring to his appearance, “is cheery.” Thank you for joking anyway, Peeves.

Oh, man, it’s so good, so good, so good
to offer good things continuously and
not shut off from the good.


Sleek in one of her Much Ado About Nothing costumes. November 1, 2008.

"I close my eyes and I
smile, knowing that everything
is alright
to the core
so close that door
is this happening?"

Be Brave

I just want to say one thing in my opening post: I will be borrowing my blog format from my friend Dough. I mean, my blog could evolve and everything. But for now, I love her format so much that I can’t help but use it. Her blog [http://aliceoutofcontext.blogspot.com/] is my favorite reading material.

Ideas I will appropriate:
(1) Making up code names for people I write about in order to protect their privacy
(2) Including a photo in every post
(3) Featuring quotes from others at the bottom of the blog

I'll make the author of the quote the label of the post.



Dough and I as roomies in Winter Quarter ’10...I promise she likes me.

When you love something,




you just love it.
You don’t want to change it.

"I’d assemble all the sand that covers wedding beaches
To build a castle so your mom would have a place to stay
Behind the water slide and down the hill where heaven reaches
Land and time is left to float away."