HE: You walked in and dropped your panties within 60 seconds of entering my apartment.
ME: Damn. Really? I usually take at least 5 minutes to comment on the decor first.
HE: No, seriously, you were slipping them off AS you commented on the decor.
SAM: If I enter a Bed Bath & Beyond, I'm like, "I'm going to spend ten billion dollars on furnishings. I HAVE TO LEAVE THIS PLACE."
ME: IKEA is your friend.
SAM: Eleven billion!
ME: You can be real clever, make your own digital art frame, and just change your statement piece whenever you want.
SAM: We're down to nine billion. This is good. You are a grounding influence.
I was going through my file cabinet and found this little leaf tucked away in a folder from high school. Three of us wrote this after a day in Honors Biology:
“The Protein Song”
Sung to the tune of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”Fibrillin, the wacked-out protein,
Had a mutated code,
And if the lymphocytes saw it,
They would’ve engulfed it whole.All of the other proteins
Used to laugh and call it names.
They wouldn’t let the poor protein
Play any enzyme games.Then one strange new mitosis,
DNA came to say,
“Protein, with your weird make-up,
Won’t you come mutate with us.”Then all the cells did love it,
As they evolved through time.
Fibrillin, you wacked-out protein,
I’m so glad that you are mine!
HE: Done anything nasty recently? Well, nasty out-of-character?
ME: Just nasty in character. Y'know, the kinky sex and the threesomes.
HE: Same old, same old.
ME: I'll let you know when I fall madly in love and devote myself to one person. THAT will be a headline.
HE: So what's new in your life?
ME: Applying for grad school. I lied when I said I was giving up academia. LADY NEEDS HER LEARNIN'. GIMME ANOTHER SHOT O' THAT HIGHER EDUCATION.
ME: I wish there were an easily understandable and linkable explanation of why trickle-down economics don't work. I would write one but I'm not an economist.
SHE: Wait. You're not?
ME: Didn't you know?
SHE: No!
ME: I only found out very recently. It was very disappointing. For years, I thought my spirit animal was an economist.
It’s been forever since I’ve either participated in or gave an update about Project Catgirl. Life just got busy! I’ll be meeting with my developer buddy next weekend to test the next prototype, but until then, you can follow the updates on his blog, Paper Bits.
My friends are full of win.
