So, does anyone else wonder what this blog is for? Because to be honest, I’m a little confused about it. I don’t see anything about Chinese Medicine, which is my thing, after all, and worse, it’s so serious, and so freaking earnest. I think it’s time to shake things up and find the fun in this experiment, and hopefully post here more often.
Let’s start with a confession. It’s true that I seem like I’d be a very nice and dutiful student, the sort who would have several sharpened pencils on hand, but that wasn’t the whole story while I was in school, and I spent a lot of years in school. In reality, I had an obedient and earnest exterior, but it hid a seemingly inexhaustible supply of inappropriate observations and comments, and many of them would kind of puff out, under my breath, so only the folks who sat right next to me knew this part of me, for better or worse.
I would rather spend time with inappropriate comment making Eliza than earnest Eliza, though I am sure that there are those who prefer the “normal” seeming version of me. You know – the nice girl. The one you met towards the beginning of coffee hour at church. Yeah – the fucking minister’s wife! I can get a little tired of her.
I can’t tell a joke to save my life, except for my “interrupting cow” knock-knock joke, and I don’t quite have the timing of that one down yet. But sometimes, there’s a great and hilarious moment when I can see the beautiful ridiculousness of the human struggle in an instant. And then, puff, unexpected and inappropriate comment. I want to stop editing those out, because I love those moments. They give me room to breathe and smile and love our flaws and our idiosyncrasies, love our insane attempts to control the uncontrollable, and to deny the obvious. We are incredible creatures, and I feel more like dancing with that reality than ruining it with too much thought.
The new name of this blog is “Under your breath,” because I kind of like it. Your comments are most welcome!
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Of course, I know the inappropriate-comment-making Eliza, and I wholeheartedly recommend that you let her out to play as often as possible. Why? Because with that kind of wit, who needs knock-knock jokes? (And the whole minister's wife thing has got to come crashing into the 21st century--why not start with you? I promise to be there as your evil sidekick--and after last week, we KNOW I can do it!)
ReplyDeleteIt's great to have a volunteer sidekick, but isn't the one making snarky comments under her breath usually the sidekick? How about I could be YOUR evil sidekick? ;)
ReplyDeleteLove,
Eliza