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You could be an everyday superhero- Ask me how

Do you name people you don't know? It's not necessarily to be mean, although it certainly can be. But often it's more out of necessity. For instance, in college, there was Scarf Boy ('nuff said), Scary Scary Skull-Cap Man, Goat boy, Pixie Girl. Basically, little titles you and your friends had for people that you don't know, but you kinda do, because you see them everywhere?

I kinda thought it would end with school. I wouldn't be in such a micro-cosmic environment, the chance of running into the same people day after day after day seemed smaller. It's not. I still have nicknames for people, but i have to admit, i feel better knowing other people do it too.

My friend Sean for example, went to a bar the other night, and when he recieved his check, it said 'Joiner Man' at the top, since he joined the group last. The first guy there was 'solo man' and the woman next to Sean was "Caesar Salad".

I hope she ordered the Caesar Salad. If someone called me Caesar Salad, and i hadn't ordered one, i would probably take a close look at my grooming habits. My check probably would have read 'unfortunate dorothy hammil haircut girl'.

But the other day when i was talking to Chris, we were discussing Grandpa Pants, and he was talking to a girl that i called 'princess yellow shirt' or something. it's almost become kinda habitual. I don't mean to pigeon hole people, but i do think it's kinder than pointing.

So, anyway, back to Joiner Man. I decided that his superpower would be to join groups of people and not disturb them or have someone say 'wait. who the fuck are you?'.

There's also a neighborhood girl, who's, i have since found out, name is Nicole. She showed up over the summer dancing on the train tracks that run about 20 feet behind our shop. I got really nervous, because she was up there dancing, and i was working all by myself, and i didn't want to see her hit or be the person who has to make the phone call to 911.so i asked her kindly to not play on the tracks.

UH.....didn't go over so well.

So anyway, two weeks ago, she's knocking on our doors, asking what we are, can she have some paper? who works next door? can she help? do we have anything she can have? can she use our bathroom? that kinda stuff.

She is now 'suspiciously helpful girl'.

suspicious, because, well, she is. Helpful because, well, she's not. and girl, because, well, she is.

i love superhero's.

one summer, i was Gondella. I had an invisible gondola that i could drive anywhere, and this one guy i worked with was 'lean man'. not that he was skinny (although he was) it was more that he had amazing powers of gravity so he could lean at extreme angles and not fall, or balance 20 peanuts, end to end, on one finger. (which he couldn't really do, but it sounds cool huh?)

Do you ever kinda like bands, and then not really, and then it's like MAN! What was i thinking?

i've owned the Promise Ring's 30 deg. everywhere for about 4 years now- times listened to: three? maybe? and that's pushing it. Now i can't get enough of the damn promise ring. 'best looking boys' just kills me, and now i can't stop listening to 'very emergency'.

Know what else i'm excited about?

jets to brazil.

Know what else?

Next week is tech for Timon, which means it's opening soon, which means days of working from 9 am until 8:30 pm are almost done.

which means i can actually, you know, have some fun and not miss stuff like, you know, trans am in clarendon.

man.

reason i *heart* barcelona #667- their song 'buying records won't make me feel better' they sing about a record store in Princeton, which *has* to be the princeton record exchange which is one of my all time fav-O-rite rekkid stores.

xoxo

beth b.

14:09:54 - 2000-08-19

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