Though you can still call me Lexi Kahn, I'm pulling a Cougar/Mellencamp move and re-identifying. My name is Michelle. I live in Boston, by way of New York, by way of a tiny town in Connecticut. I live with Joe. We're DINKS (dual income, no kids). It's a miracle I have made it to my thirties. Thirties! I am SO a Gen X'er -- go ahead, ask me about the 80s. I love good books, good movies, divine food, leisurely travel, smart comedy and, especially, music. For 11 years ('97 to '08) I was a regular in the local Boston rock scene using the name Lexi Kahn (Google me!) but quit the whole thing to pursue other interests. What those are...is probably what this diary will be about from 2008 forward.
So keep reading! You never know what'll happen.
While I'm figuring that out, I'd just like to illustrate TWO of the reasons why my dear friend Joe, though yes, it averages out that he's great like Winnie the Pooh, is also freakin' impossible like Owl. By the way, Don Juanski (which is one of the things I call Joe, besides "Joe," "Heartbreaker" or "Dork") revels in both of these reasons. Hm...the reveling itself should be Reason Number 3, come to think of it.
Number 1) I mean seriously...this isn't fair.
Number 2) Conversations like the one just now, which included the following exchange.
"I feel bad," he said.
"You should," I agreed.
"Why should I?"
"Why DO you?"
"I don't!"
Note, if you will, the similarity to Monty Python's 'Argument' sketch, excerpt below, between "Man Looking for Argument" and "Arguer."
M: I came here for a good argument.
A: No you didn't; no, you came here for an argument.
M: An argument isn't just contradiction.
A: It can be.
M: No it can't. An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition.
A: No it isn't.
Am I right?
Tomorrow maybe I'll write about going shopping with T Max yesterday, and how he argued with me the whole way about the route I suggested we take, until we actually GOT there, at which point he said, "OH, this WAS a good way to go."
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You know, there's going to need to be INFINITY Advil if these are the kinds of friends I'm going to insist on holding near and dear...
