Hypothetical conversation, real topic.

[mrissa]

So you'll be in California two weeks from now. Yep. Sitting on the sand, basking in the sun.... No, the other California. Sitting on the rocks, basking in the fog? Bingo.

Hey, I thought you felt really crappy all the time. Yep. I thought you weren't able to do normal things like drive and cook and walk unassisted. Yep. I thought riding in a car or on a train or in an airplane made you even dizzier. Yep. I thought you were doing PT sessions three times a day. You can do PT in hotel rooms. I suppose. Still and all, it doesn't sound like the most fun a person has ever had on a trip to California. I expect not.

So what's the deal? My friend Amber is getting married, and one has the general notion that she won't be doing it again so often that one would get bored of it. Do you think she'll be upset with you if you don't come? No. I think I will. Does this have anything to do with ongoing regrets about missing another dear friend's wedding due to vertigo issues? That's a very personal question, hypothetical person! Hush.

Hey! I have just recalled that I am part of the hypothetical livejournal-reading conversation-holding sort of person that lives in Northern California! I hope you're very happy there. And you seem to like me! Probably I do, then; I sometimes give the impression of being willing to be around people I'm only barely willing to tolerate, but if I actively seem to like you, that's hardly ever misleading. It only goes the other way around. So are you going to come see me while you're out there? No. Awww. Why not? Is it because you don't love me any more? Probably. Or else I never loved you to begin with, because ours was a doomed and tragic passion. Seriously, why not? Because I think that this trip is going to be a bit hard on me, and running around the Bay Area would move it from "difficult" into "really unreasonably hard or impossible."

Aren't you going to make any effort at all to see me? Sort of. I am going to plan a restaurant dinner people can attend if they're willing and able. Depending on other pieces of data not under my control, it will be either 5/18 (Sunday) or 5/19 (Monday). Would you like to hear whether I am around either of those nights and interested in hearing more? Definitely. Would e-mail or comments do? Of course. Will this dinner be convenient to BART? Alas, probably not. The wedding is in Palo Alto, so we will probably be getting a hotel in that general vicinity in the interest of not hauling me from pillar to post. Will this dinner be convenient to CalTrain? Quite possibly. If I can't come to dinner, will there be some other opportunity? Probably not on this trip. But, y'know, markgritter's job is in the Bay Area, and timprov and I both have family there as well as friends, so you should expect me to be out there again someday. Possibly even with the middle-ear problems cured. That'd be swell. Tell me about it.

Comments

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I really do hope they're very happy there.

Maybe I should do a phone post. Hmm. One of these days I will do a Language Lesson Tape phone post from Minnesotan to English.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Will try to remember to include that.

[matastas.livejournal.com]

You would make an absolute fortune.

[reveritas.livejournal.com]

*hypothetically will plan to be there* Woop!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Your other monkey is welcome, too, and I only wish that I thought it was likely to be a dog-friendly venue.

[callunav.livejournal.com]

I like reading the things you post.

Every once in a while, you post something that makes me just sit at my computer and think, "I like Mrissa."

This was one of them.

I hope that things go as well as they possibly can, that you have a couple pleasant surprises, and that when the trip is over and you're safe home again, you're glad you went.

Take care.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[avocadovpx.livejournal.com]

So are you going to come see me while you're out there?
No.
Awww. Why not? Is it because you don't love me any more?
Probably. Or else I never loved you to begin with, because ours was a doomed and tragic passion.

Understood. I felt it immediately, too. For the sake of Livejournal, we'll keep up appearances, but if I end up throwing myself in front of a steam-powered Russian novel, we'll both know why.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Yah, okay. And then when someone speaks your name I will get out a lace-edged handkerchief but not actually cry, and I will repeat your name gently: "Ah, yes. Poor dear Avocado Vippix. He is...missed."

[avocadovpx.livejournal.com]

I understand that that's much more emphatics in the original Scandasotan.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Ah no; I had already translated it. In Scandosotan it's a sigh.

[athenais.livejournal.com]

Dude.

[reveritas.livejournal.com]

dude! :) maybe i could finally meet you!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

And you can do a language lesson phone post, too! With the various pronunciations of "dude"!

[brooksmoses]

Dude.

[hypatia-j.livejournal.com]

If this is the Amber I think it is, give her my regards and best wishes, I haven't seen her since the_overqual's wedding.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Indeed, it is the real Amber and not some impostor.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Not that the niecelet is in any way unreal.

[brooksmoses]

I would be around both of those nights, and would indeed like to have dinner with you and all the other people.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I will poke you when I know more.

[rosefox]

Oh, oh, please do keep me posted! I don't think there's a way I could be there on the 18th, but the 19th I could manage almost for sure.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I will be sure to speak up when the factors beyond my control have resolved themselves.

[logovore.livejournal.com]

I posit we would be hypothetically delighted to join you for one of those conceptualized dinners, hypothetical family engagements of our own by supposition permitting.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I will keep you abreast of further hypotheses, then.

[arkuat]

I'm emailing my particulars.

They're very particular there.

[jymdyer.livejournal.com]

=v= I don't think that's legal in the Midwest.

[mamapduck.livejournal.com]

If this hypothetical dinner happens I might like to hypothetically come and meet you in person.

[columbina.livejournal.com]

My friend Amber is getting married, and one has the general notion that she won't be doing it again so often that one would get bored of it.

This is a fabulous sentence. In fact this whole thing makes me desire, in the back of my head, to one day see and peruse a copy of Miss Marissa's Manual of Modern Manners. Not that I'm trying to encourage you to write an etiquette book! Merely a pipe dream ....

(I realize that should have been Ms. but it was not as euphonious.)