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Thursday, March 6, 2003

Zip Crackle POW

Dang, this doesn't happen very often, but when it does, oh man, I'm on cloud 10... of course, maybe I should actually act upon it once in a while. Huh? Oh, I just went and saw "Russian Ark" at the Lagoon and on the way home swung through Whole Foods to get some soy milk and Soy Dream Organic frozen treats and the young lady at the checkout was ... stunning. Not in an obvious way, but behind her tribal jewelry and her grocery store smock was an amazing woman with bright blue eyes and dark long hair. We did the usual customer-clerk verbal exchange, but there was much more to the exchange than was audible. So now I'm wondering, what exactly is happening when your eyes lock and sparkle and you fill with a bouyant glow and feel buzzy and tingly and an entire universe of information and possibilities is instantly blossomed between you? Is there some sort of swapping of data or code, like we are each other's specific retinal scanner, zipping compatibility along our eye-beams? The look she gave me, and I know I wasn't imagining things, was beautiful and powerful and melting and intentional... and I returned it. So now what the heck is wrong with me that I just bathe in this fabulous experience and don't pur it any further and simply smile giddily and walk out the door?

"And rapt'rous Hope, and unrestrain'd Desire
Bathe in her brilliant eye-beam's fluid fire."
-- Dermody


posted by jeremy at 10:38 PM


visitor chattering

those are the expierences that make every day an exciting adventure.. the question is how fast can you drink a gallon of soy milk so you have to go to the store again..

posted by: bill on March 6, 2003 11:15 PM

screw drinking the soy dude...git yer ass back over there....tomorrow....or tonight still..what are you waiting for??? Think of something that you have to go back and buy everyhour or so..or better yet go over there and buy some flowers and then after you pay for them...give them to her...leave her your card in the flowers with a phone number and an offer of dinner or drinks ..she can pick the place...also mention you are going to keep giving her flowers every day till she says yes........come on....do it... come on........I'll sing for free at your wedding...

take a risk what do you have to loose?? a few bucks on flowers for a beautiful women???? .........that is poetry

posted by: jack on March 6, 2003 11:59 PM

sounds like the swank new clothes, haircut, and hard drive really worked!

my problem with feeling sparks is that i overthink it.

me: i think that was lightning.
myself: yeah, i felt it.
i: hm, but did he?
me: what?
myself: she said, "did he?"
i: yeah, how do you know? maybe he had something in his eye.
me: i dunno, i think he felt it. i swear he was flirting.
myself: maybe you should ask him out.
i: no, let him ask you out.
me: that would be cool.
myself: don't be such a lame ass. come on, make gloria steinem proud!
i: aw, hell. let's go. if he really likes you he'll come running.
me: *sigh*
myself: hey, grab that city pages. see if anyone saw you this week.

posted by: irish-girl on March 7, 2003 12:49 PM

irish-girl, you have summed up my life expierence with women in such a short sentence... I too used to over think things.. heck, when I met Michelle I was going through this whole I think she dug me.. we sure were talking alot on the plane.. I should ask her for lunch, no, I can't.. you should.. finally she asked me for lunch, thankfully, she almost got away because of my mind running circles.

posted by: bill on March 7, 2003 1:25 PM