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tales from my gmail inbox #003: Life’s a gas

2/23/2007

To Jennifer Finan

From XXXX

Well !

XXXX just called me. I’m thrilled. He’s wonderful. Loves India: “it’s the dirtiest, smelliest, most beautiful place ever,” says he. He doesn’t want to come home. They’re trying to get him hitched. They treat him like a raj. He misses us and sends his love. He just missed 2 separate bombings (train & at a temple). Ill tell you all about it .

Thank-you,

XXXX

2/23/2007

To XXXX

From Jennifer Finan

I miss the bugger. He would love it…I’m glad but slightly disheartened by it all. At least he’s happy. MAKES FOR ONE OF US.

Just kidding, I am fine. Yeah, to-day is the lunch(date) or something. Gasp, I don’t really know what to expect, but I am trying to keep it low (expectation-wise) because getting disappointed would only be my fault.

I have to work tonight until 2, bummah.
If you come to the city, maybe you can help me with an idea for my screenplay. I need ten pages by oh, Wednesday? Maybe Monday, I forget. Anyway it doesn’t even matter because I don’t know what to write about. I was just inspired by my IH class I just got out of. I thought it could be some cloak & dagger murder mystery except I am the killer. I wonder if these emails are scanned for “terroristic” behavior? Just kidding, you silly censors, you!! I can’t even afford a gun if I wanted to. And I have a distinct feeling I would be a bad shot.
So XXXX is providing a shoulder for XXXX? Interesting, I’m sure they are platonic but still weird for sure. How are things with you two? I haven’t really seen him, wait, actually once and we all watched the anti-Semitic spiel of Michael Richards on my computer and it was horrific. Not funny at all. I hope he was being serious because if that was a joke, I need to adjust my level of tolerance for ironic humor (which I thought was pretty high to begin with) After all, I do live with a Brit! And yes, I realize this happened like, 10 years ago but I skipped over that nugget of pop culture and went straight on to Brangelina and Anna Nicole instead, so forgive me for trying to catch up.
Oh man , you missed a fun night out Wednesday. XXXX and her sis were in a fashion show at Cebu (sp?) in Old City and it was crazy. I videotaped it and it was all these (Phil)ebrities and champagne, GLORIOUS! Who could ever want to be poor, short and ugly? Not me. But it was cool and this great Armenian named Ugeo (you-gi) came and he’s a pro photographer and we got Gatsby-ian drunk and went out on the town, fellow paparazzi snapping our every movement in tow.
Eh, Russian and I cooled off. He really wasn’t right for me and he got real clingy. I heard he came looking for me at the Irish Pub on Tuesday but I called out and went to a speed dating thing instead. Haha, but it wasn’t for dating, it was put on by the Phila. Film Office as a networking event. So I made business cards and met like 40 people by playing musical chairs. So every 3 minutes, you meet someone in the industry, exchange info. potentially make some cash money. It was good. And later on, I met two interesting Penn neurology students because a few of us from the event got vegan food and European hot cocoa, which solidified in like, 5 minutes of me not drinking it. I never felt more aware of fat content in food/drink and I silently thanked my lucky stars I didn’t come near to finishing the glass.
Alright almost time for my next class and I have some reading to do. Come by the pub tonight if you’re in town otherwise hopefully I’ll see you later.
J

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