if there is, i might be guilty of it with this next post. i mean I wrote it. i just posted it on the big friend blog first. i did make a promise, though, to post on here, and i just don't feel like writing it out again. enjoy (some of you twice!):
so i feel i must share a recent skype adventure. i hardly use the thing, but tonight found a chat conversation from kris (which was decidedly one-sided...the girl can talk). as i was doing this, a little "hi" from brian pops up right underneath. so i am overcome with joy that my pseudo food twin has decided to talk to me. yes, brian sharon has actually initiated contact.
so i'm pretty enthusiastic in my responses, even though it's the standard small talk. i explain that i'm eating honey nut cheerios. he says cool, he likes those too. "really? weird! you mean we like the same foods??!" is my response. it seems, however, that the witty comment is lost on my friend brian who gives the standard internet chat laugh. 'man, studying has made brian a bit dull,' i think.
a lull in the conversation...
me: how is louisville?
him: wha?
me: you do live there now, right?
him: haha, what makes you think that?
[my brain]: uh oh...
him: hmm wrong person, right?
yes, that's right. i have now unwittingly joined the ranks of the lonely and the desperate--the internet daters.
we did end up having a lovely chat, though. i expect a proposal by a tuxedo-clad emoticon any day now.
3 comments:
actually, yes. there is such a thing as self-plagiarism. While only a few people (journalists mostly) have ever been "convicted" as it were, John Fogerty (the lead singer and mastermind of Creedence Clearwater Revival and author of such songs as "Proud Mary," "Green River," "Susie Q," "Fortunate Son," "Down on the Corner,""Bad Moon Rising," and "Centerfield" to name a few) was tried for plagiarizing himself after he wrote a song for his new record label that sounded similar to "Run Through the Jungle," a hit on his old record label, which still owned the rights to his songs.
This has been your lesson for the day. Now you know, and knowing is half the battle
wow, matt. that was some schpeel. sounds like something from wikipedia. you really should cite your sources.
jen...you always did love the word schpeel.
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