December 30, 2003
telophase tuesday
Harkening back to the grand old days of biology class, BellyRub and I had a little chat about smarts. We were congratulating ourselves on our individual and combined genius and further congratulating ourselves on the genuis of our friends and loves.
BellyRub was mentioning that his job in the warehouse wasn't stimulating his brains so much. (He did say that TemporarilyTitledTimidTallGirl was a clever girl. He thinks she's groovy. I know she must be. She reads this. [yes, Karen, it's you]) He was afraid that he'd get dumb.
I, of course, told him that he couldn't get dumb as long as he was doing clever things like reading and, well, watching tv. [I must remember to tell you about the satellite tv installation guy. I have several hypotheses about him.]
He said he loves his satellite tv thing. He gets the Yankees tv station (wahoo wahoo!) and he also gets local channels!
I said, "Yes it must be nice to be able to have local news from around the place he calls home. How is outer space these days, anyway? Are you still mayor?"
BellyRub answered in his gloriously off the wall way, "Well, on Telophase Tuesday there isn't much on, which makes me angry. But coming off of Metaphase Monday, you can just imagine that I can forgive pretty much anything."
I asked, "How's the Paraphrase show? And the Atmospheric Haze?"
I think we could have gone on for hours. But we didn't.
I have collected another photo of BellyRub. Here he is in his natural, unbearded state. I do wish he would go back to beardlessness. With his facial hair I like to call him Mordecai, for his resemblance to the Amish who might have that type of name.
BrilliantEditor has facial hair in fits and starts. I think that's why it always grows back in so robust a way. It's like pruning a tree. Hadassah was Queen Esther's name and it means myrtle tree. I could call him that. I don't like that name though.
I suppose AngerTrain could be called Hezekiah...but BellyRub has a very fuzzy beard these days...
