January 13, 2008 at 8:46 pm (Uncategorized)
Tags: dialogue, stupid argument, Teflon
Mary: Give it here. What are you using that for?
Bob: I’m using it on the Teflon pans.
Mary: You are not! You can’t use that on the Teflon!
Bob: Teflon is not god!
Mary: On the website, it said that it is.
Bob: God is dead!
Mary: No! Liar! How dare you talk that way about Teflon? Teflon is god! The website said so!
Bob: The website is lying to you. Teflon is not god, because god is dead…then again, perhaps I am wrong. Teflon is not alive, therefore it might be god. My apologies.
Mary: Oh…okay.
End scene.
(Four and a half lines of that dialogue actually happened (with different names) and caused my nervous laughter. The rest, I took liberties with and to no purpose.)
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January 13, 2008 at 7:48 pm (Uncategorized)
Tags: carpe diem, speech
Months back, I did a speech at a school function in front of a few hundred people. Afterward, I had people coming up to me and complimenting me on it, via saying how it made them cry, asking for a copy (to share with a class, in a professor’s case and to do who-knows-what with in others’ cases), or via a more traditional compliment. I was very proud that I’d made such an impression on all of those people, but looking back on it now, I can’t help but think that I should have listened closer to my own words. That speech was one of those (in my opinion) cheesy, carpe diem things. Others seemed to like it (and that stroked my ego well enough), but I wasn’t fully satisfied with it. Regardless, I don’t think that I’ve “seized the day.” Sure, I’ve seized some days, but all? No, certainly not.
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