Friday, October 15, 2004
Previous Post Continued...
Now, if you haven't read the previous post (because I've been such a bad blogger!), scroll down right now and read THAT post before you read this one. It's imperative. :-)
So ... Thursday morning, amidst e-mailing back and forth with my friend about the Barry Manilow concert, I also e-mailed a different friend about possibly catching a movie this weekend. I will quote certain parts of certain e-mails that went back & forth that day between myself and friend #2.
I had already written to ask friend #2 about a movie this weekend, and heard back from her that she would be out of town this weekend. You need to read her reaction to finding out that I was going to the Barry Manilow concert:
- Part of my answer to her e-mail: "I have a few errands to run, and then I'm maybe going to the (are you ready for this:) Barry Manilow concert at the MCI center with Kristi (wanna come with?) It's a lot more $ than I would even want to pay for tickets to see my favorite Christian artist (Stephen Curtis Chapman), but Barry is quite a showman, so I'm sure it will be worth it. ANYWAY ... I'l be a bit tired tomorrow (the concert doesn't even start until 8:00), but it should be fun! I'll chat with you next week.
- Friend #2's answer: "As tempting as an expensive evening with Barry Manilow (insert gagging noise here) sounds, I will have to leave that inexplicable pleasure to you and Kristi:). Actually, sometimes Barry doesn't make my skin crawl...it's just most of the time;). I don't know why I don't like him...maybe I've seen too many episodes of Murphy Brown... [skipped another paragraph about unrelated topics] ... Enjoy Barry, in all his spikey haired big nosed glory;)...I'm kidding...sortof...he he he...Maaaaaaannnnndyyyyyyy!"
Yup - that's about the extent of most of my friends' and colleagues' reactions to my going to see Barry. When I came in this morning, one colleague started singing at me: "I remember all my life ... raining down as cold as ice....." And another, who HAD read my blog late last night just shook her head and said, "I saw your away message at about 7:00, and it said 'At the Copa ... Copacabana....' and I couldn't figure out what the heck you were talking about. Then I saw your blog this morning ... I can NOT believe you went to see Barry Manilow." Yup ... the target of much laughter from friends and colleagues.
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This cannot be! Two posts in a row!!! And BOTH of them are about BARRY MANNILOW? What is this world coming to?
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