the other side of D...my life in private

i know it's easy to say but it's harder to feel... this way

"Interesting..."

-my good friend J's response to all things that should be surprising and aren't.

I decided I was going to go for things I didn't think I wanted, so that if it turned out I couldn't have them i wouldn't have to deal with being too disppointed.

I would simply like to point out that in case any of you thought "Wow, D! That's a fantastic idea! It must work really well for you!", you are terribly wrong and should stop taking advice from me. If you, like most smart realistic people, know me, you realize that I am incapable of not wanting anything [especially when 'anything' is a smart, funny, attractive, jewish male].

What i think is truly fantastic about writing as an art form, is not the words, but rather the syntax. There are an almost unlimited number of words in the english language; millions of ways one can say anything- but it rarely seems to be the words that bring the meaning. As a noun, syntax can refer to either linguistics or logic; maybe even both. J's use of the word "interesting" can mean many different things, but in this case i believe it was followed with a verbal elypsis [...]. Meaning, since J knows me quite well, she knew I was bluffing.

After the occurences of this past weekend she asked me if i liked this individual. After going back and forth in my head between the least embaressing and most neutral of responses, i replied "let's just say, I'm interested".

J's response?

"Uh huh interesting."

posted by D @ 9:55 AM