old appliances and sentimentality

[fictional]

the video store was out of all the delightfully depressing movies that i thought i might inflict upon us this evening. so i settled for Shakespeare in Love, and the Matrix on dvd. d. wants to test his "new" DVD player (housewarming present, courtesy of kittie i think) and flat screen tv (just bought yesterday!)

i got Shakespeare in Love on video simply because he also still has the VCR that we bought together in san diego. and i remember the night that we got it. it was probably about ten pm. and i really wanted to watch a movie. (probably it was one of those evenings in that apartment where the silence was too deafening for us to even try and break it with words.) and i told him i wanted him to buy me a vcr. right that second. and he did. from kozmo.com (ahh, weren't those the days) and it was delivered to our door, in twenty minutes, along with two movies.

the vcr will probably break at some point, and then i'm going to take it from him, and stuff it in a closet somewhere as a reminder of those halcyon dot-com days. and more importantly, so that i remember that even the most desperate nights can sometimes be saved.

and now, off to movie night...

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Oh dear god...

[(Anonymous)]

Hello, TUMPA...

I know another girl with one of these; she too is a bit strange in the head. I must admit, there's something strangely addicting about conversing via such an innane medium, and you know how I am with addiction.

"One of those evenings in that apartment where the silence was too deafening for us to even try and break it with words"? Come now, if you're going to go that far you should use words like daren't.

How is our frosty upstate wonderland? I intend to avoid finding out for another week. Feel free to come by whenever you please (but given our history...), and don't tell me I can feel free to do the same; Ithaca is dreadful -- like Binghamton but under a guise of a naturalistic beauty. I'm sure it's been the untimely end of many a perfectly edible vegan.

Yours...