Day no.2, Ramadan

"...and nearest among them in love to the believers wilt thou find those who say, "We are Christians": because amongst these are men devoted to learning and men who have renounced the world, and they are not arrogant."
-Qur'an 5:82b

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"We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves, and have neither thoughts nor feelings to impart to them."
-William Hazlitt, from On the Pleasure of Hating

On Aggressive Apathy

Based on my recent blog entry titled Not Lives of Girls and Women, I was asked to write about apathy. It's a little more philosophical than most rabble pieces, so I do hope you'll enjoy it!

Am off to Austin for the week,and completely off-line. Enjoy the next few days, please!

Not Lives of Girls and Women

I've just dined with Alice Munro. It was relatively quiet as I didn't say one word and instead let her letters slip off the page and create for me an alternate universe.

Every once in a while, I would be pulled from her pages by the loud voices of two late 20-something young women seated at the table next to me.

"I was with David Friday night."
"Whose David?"
"The guy I'm dating. He's why I couldn't see you Saturday. We spent Friday night together, went out for breakfast Saturday and rented movies and hung out with, like, his dog that night. It's what we do...but it's not a relationship. The sex is GREAT! And then there's Andrew."
"Whose Andrew?"
"The other guy I'm dating. He's perfect. He's a homeowner, he owns a vehicle and has an excellent job. He's tall, too, and the sex with him is GREAT also."

Pause. Check bberry. Look out window at protestors (Sri Lanka / tamil), and ask "who the fuck are they?"
"Who cares. They, like totally held up traffic last week. You're in Canada! God. Get over it, right?"

Pause. Check bberry, then continue
"Anyway. So like whatever happened to Mikey?"
"Sex with Mikey is even MORE awesome. I'm seeing him tonight."

Pause. Check bberry, then yell "WHAT!"
"Omg what's wrong?"
"READ!"
"Omg. Mikey has a girlfriend?"
"Yeah!"
"You're, like, The Other Woman. That's slammin' cool."
"And he's breaking up with her. Right. Now!"
"Awesomeness. You're a rockstar!"
"To the max, yo. I'm totally updating my FaceBook status to tell everyone about this...f*ck YEAH!!"

Droooooooone.
Focus on white tuna.
White noiiiiiiiiise.
Your daughters will not be like this.
Ugggggggggggh.
Tataki. Tataki. Tataki.
Huuuuuuuuuurrl.

I hate girls.
Also, I wish to run into the hills and hide.

Argh

I don't have the words to express anything...but...maybe that if she enjoyed herself so much, they should have left her there.

Happy "recreating", Dumba**.

(P.S. There were rumors that the above was an April Fool's joke, only now her "official" page says that it wasn't. Dumba** she remains, then.)