What I like about E
Nov. 6th, 2005 11:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zdashamberSilent E was my housemate for five years, and is now in Boston. She is an exemplary friend in many, many ways. I have three in particular that I feel like mentioning here, perhaps because they're so rare.
1. E is a ninja. In middle school when I read all those spy nonfiction books about photographing the files while leaving no trace you were there? Like that. If you tell her something for her ears only, that's as far as it goes. If you send it in email, even, she'll pick it out from the dross around it. She has care for the things that you think are important. Not to get all office-space, but I remember once years back being unable to find the stapler my mom gave me, and asking her if she'd seen it since she'd had some people over working on reports or something; and she replied how she'd searched out a different stapler because she knew how much that one meant to me.
2. E can move through a crowd as well as I can, or better. Honestly, people, it's not that hard! Group X will occlude spot A in 1 second, but group Y is just meandering and force of personality will slow them so that spot A can be yours at .5 seconds, and from there spot B before group Z will make it there... You look at the crowd vectors, you speed up, slow down, change direction, or walk in unexpected places as necessary. You're a leaf on the wind. And by god it's nice to find another leaf, because standing at the end of a crowded aisle waiting for some dead weight to meander on up with the rest of the shufflers is a waste of the things that make life fun.
3. E gives excellent directions in the navigator's seat of a car. She reads maps and thinks ahead and gives you understandable directions a good time in advance. There's never a "Turn right. No, here! You missed it! Oh, god, watch out for that truck!" With E as my copilot I made it out of the wilds of SF many a time without wanting to strangle anyone.
1. E is a ninja. In middle school when I read all those spy nonfiction books about photographing the files while leaving no trace you were there? Like that. If you tell her something for her ears only, that's as far as it goes. If you send it in email, even, she'll pick it out from the dross around it. She has care for the things that you think are important. Not to get all office-space, but I remember once years back being unable to find the stapler my mom gave me, and asking her if she'd seen it since she'd had some people over working on reports or something; and she replied how she'd searched out a different stapler because she knew how much that one meant to me.
2. E can move through a crowd as well as I can, or better. Honestly, people, it's not that hard! Group X will occlude spot A in 1 second, but group Y is just meandering and force of personality will slow them so that spot A can be yours at .5 seconds, and from there spot B before group Z will make it there... You look at the crowd vectors, you speed up, slow down, change direction, or walk in unexpected places as necessary. You're a leaf on the wind. And by god it's nice to find another leaf, because standing at the end of a crowded aisle waiting for some dead weight to meander on up with the rest of the shufflers is a waste of the things that make life fun.
3. E gives excellent directions in the navigator's seat of a car. She reads maps and thinks ahead and gives you understandable directions a good time in advance. There's never a "Turn right. No, here! You missed it! Oh, god, watch out for that truck!" With E as my copilot I made it out of the wilds of SF many a time without wanting to strangle anyone.
Your Ode to E
Date: 2005-11-07 07:59 am (UTC)Re: Your Ode to E
Date: 2005-11-07 05:26 pm (UTC)Did your gig go well? I'm sorry I had to miss it.
Re: Your Ode to E
Date: 2005-11-07 06:35 pm (UTC)Re: Your Ode to E
Date: 2005-11-07 11:49 pm (UTC)No worries. It did indeed go well, and three friends managed to make it out for it on a Sunday night. :-)
We enjoyed playing together and may do a followup gig.
Re: Your Ode to E
Date: 2005-11-07 11:52 pm (UTC)Feh. That's almost worse than its being sold out. Hmmm.
What do you think the odds are we could get cheaper tickets if we showed up at the theater that day?
Well, I've managed to do just that both times I've seen Stephen Hawking, and this will be the second of his local appearances. I just checked Craig's list and there's nada for the Thursday show (I definitely can't make tonight's).
That said, with prices at $65, it might not actually sell out (his previous speaking engagements did, but those were each one-offs, unlike the two-fer we have here). So we could always go and attempt to get $35 tickets from someone at the door, and if there are $65 seats left at the start of the lecture bite the bullet or just go get dinner.
Re: Your Ode to E
Date: 2005-11-08 07:10 pm (UTC)Also, do you ever have need to fly to Nashville? I note Southwest is offering $200ish round trip tickets for Dec-March travel times.