Reader: Get the Bee!

Thursday, November 1, 2007

Get the Bee!

I had a lot of work to do yesterday. How did I cope? I clocked out early and took the train out to New Jersey so I could take Liam out trick-or-treating with my brother Buzz. Liam is three, as of last week, and he dressed up as a skeleton:

We went to the Halloween Parade, and the costumes were quite something.

This is where I part company with pretty much everyone else in America:

The moment I found myself glueing cotton balls to my beagle, strapping wings to my terrier, or stuffing my other terrier into a bee costume... Because of a holiday... that is essentially about high fructose corn syrup and.... deadness... well. Fit me for the paper slippers at Bellevue. I am checking in.

And yet, oddly... these people remind me of.... oh, let's see.... who's that girl I know?

Oh yes. Me.

2 comments:

Woodrow said...: I see no need for any dog that weighs less than....oh...let's say 30 pounds, or any dog that won't either find or fetch shit for me.; November 1, 2007 at 5:38 PM
Julie said...: I agree, Woodrow. Although my Catahoula shrieks and runs from the refrigerator door in about the same pitch she uses to shriek at deer.; November 2, 2007 at 6:51 AM

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Who are these people?

Bibi - God bless the guy who gets Bee. I can't even think of anything obnoxious to say about her. She can eat pasta without gaining weight, she can run the ridges at Gertrude's Nose with no fear, and she is by miles the best climber of all of us. She's going to Kili with us. Hell, she'll be leading.
Buzz Elder Brother. Cross me at your peril.
Jib computer wizard, entrepreneur, stand-up comedian, stand-up guy I can count on to catch a movie and hold hands in the dark without it having any meaning whatosever. Every woman needs a man like Jib.
Joe - locquacious, flirtatious, 40-something hiking buddy - also, ex-manfriend of Pax.
Larry, WPITW - climber, hiker, badass (not in the good way, either). At a given moment, at least half of us are not speaking to him.
Liam - My nephew, whose favorite words are "noing," "Bobby," "dumptruck," "job-site" and "Daddy." He also says "obstreperous" "pulchritudinous" and "Nina" upon request.
Merry - Australian BFF spends the summers on a yacht, nannying for a celebrity couple with two children. She lives in a brownstone and she has a chauffeur. And we have no idea who she works for.
Newsy has been my friend for about 22,000 hours. Or more. I don't have a calculator. She has about 3423% more professional and personal commitments than I do, and yet she still finds time to think about me. I find this astonishing. If you knew her, you'd be astonished, too.
Pax - climber, hiker, corporate warrior, used to date Joe. Sticks by Larry in spite of his horribleness. None of us understands this.
Skatey- he rides a skateboard. He can dance. He can throw a frisbee and he's not bad at karaoke, either.
Sri - Bengali princess who, aside from kicking my ass at climbing, and aside from being a smokin' hiker, brought down the evil empire of Larry and also once told me that "even girls' are turned on my breasts." Also never turns down "one more round."
Supajewie - Long distance drinking buddy, just about the only person I know who "gets it". And no, she's not Jewish. It's a long story.
Tex - is what happens when you take a normal man, add alcohol, subtract common sense and tact, and then buy him another drink.

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I teach English, and I sometimes get a emotional about grammar, punctuation, and usage. I sometimes write posts about other people's grammar - or mine. This does not mean, however, that my blog is without errors. I constantly go back and edit for typos and sometimes even... misspelled words *clutching skull and gagging*. If you find a mistake feel free to call me out on it. I will persist in making mistakes whether I attempt to catch them or not, and I will continue to be my bitchy English teacher self despite my capacity to screw up just as often as the next person... and maybe more.