Last night I had the pleasure of having dinner with Denise of Life, Law, Gender, and the blogger known as Unblague. I have been reading Denise’s blog regularly for a couple of years and after having the chance to talk w/her on her birthday last year it was great to finally meet her in person. She’s every bit as fun, funny, and wise as she sounds on her blog.
That’s also true of Unblague, with whom I also had coffee on Monday. She, too, is witty and fun with just a bit of a sarcastic side reserved primarily for those of a Republican persuasion (so we obviously get along very well)—again, just as you’d guess from reading her blog. I only regret that it took us this long to finally meet, but I’ll have to take comfort for that lost opportunity in the fact that she’s been so busy through the last year that we probably wouldn’t have been able to spend much time together, anyway. Yeah, that’s it.
At any rate, we had a terrific time joking about trees falling on Prii (Priuses? Denise’s car may be cursed) and whether we ought to be posting pictures of shoes on our websites. (The consensus was clearly “yes.”) We also discussed more serious things, such as how hate begins, who benefits from it, and how to reduce its presence and effect in society; Laramie, Matthew Shepard, and hate crimes legislation; and whether it’s better to support a politician who agrees w/you 65% of the time and gets elected, or to support a politician who agrees w/you 100% of the time but is not elected. Along the way Unblague learned that I have three shirts that are identical except for their color,1 we both learned that Denise has had so many different experiences she must have lived a dozen lives, and I learned that they are not big fans of my footnotes.2
So thanks to both Denise and Unblague for a great evening! I hope we will meet again someday soon. Montana really isn’t as far away as you think…. [tags]friends, blogging[/tags]
- If you find something you like at a good price, why get only one?↩
- This I do not understand. Footnotes are so much fun! Ok, I admit: footnotes are often an indulgence for a writer and are not always user-friendly or beneficial to the reader. But they’re easy to ignore, aren’t they? Hmph. Perhaps this will be the next poll…↩
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3 Comments so far. Leave a comment below.Oooh, what’s the third color for the shirt? LOL. Okay, after giving you all that crap, I will cop to owning one or two identical sweaters in different colors. Like you said, if it’s a bargain and you like the piece of clothing…
It was great hanging out with you two too! Fun times. Next time you’re in town… or (cough, cough), I make it to Montana, gimme a shout.
BTW, I noticed you didn’t mention the incident involving the phone in the pocket…? Hmmm.
Anyway, have a great trip out west. Good luck with the move — and don’t let those CDs put you to sleep on the drive, even if there isn’t much to hit.
:)
Re: footnotes. Who do you think you are, David Foster Wallace? (Heh.)
LOVED meeting y’all in person, finally! Thank you, Ambib, for your kind words. I agree with She says — why no comment about the vibrating phone in your pocket (or so he says), hmmm?
And, as long as confessions re: clothing choices are the order of the day, I’ll confess to owning the same pair of shoes in more than one color. :)
Finally, I have to say — the footnotes are ok, not truly obnoxious, just funny — and something we could pick on you about.
Thanks again, both of you, I had a blast (and, yes, I convinced The Girl that I was NOT out picking up lesbian law students….)