23 Jul 2006, 12:44am
When there is a phrase so infinitely precious...
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As we go through the various motions (to borrow a phrase from ESPN commentators - unlike a certain author (name not really required - she (used purely for making the language non-sexist) could not manage to hide her sources, thereby making the cardinal sin of breaking the now legendary law proposed by Albert Einstein) - I am in the habit of citing sources when I know I cannot pass something off as my own) of life, we come across phrases that are infinitely precious (to borrow a phrase from my dear Aran).
A few nights (Aran and I are in the habit of spending many a night with each other, and lest people's active imaginations should become over-active all that night-spending is done over messenger) ago, we had a small discord and I decided that enough was finally enough. And I wanted to lay it easy on the poor girl. After all, she has been through a lot for/with me over the last two and some years.
If there is anything that I appreciate about the software industry (seriously, can anything about it be appealing at all?) it is the absolute shamelessness with which components are re-used and re-purposed, how stuff is templatised. Being as it is that I happen to be a part of this industry, it was only a matter of time before I applied industry practices to my personal life. I am not happy about it but then even the best among us sometimes have bad hair days. This one, though, was especially bad.
Anyway, I intended to use the standard break-up template. What did I say? Quote:
"It is not me, it is you".
May be it was a Freudian slip. I don't know. But what I do know is that we ended up laughing our respective asses off. And Aran accorded it a place in the hall of the infinitely precious phrases.
PS: Feels good to finally be back to writing nonsense.
PPS: Using a PS in one's writing usually signifies bad writing skills.
PPPS: Sometimes, though, a PS adds to the effect.
PPPPS: Aran and I have not parted ways yet.
Current Mood: Gloomy
Current Music: David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World
A few nights (Aran and I are in the habit of spending many a night with each other, and lest people's active imaginations should become over-active all that night-spending is done over messenger) ago, we had a small discord and I decided that enough was finally enough. And I wanted to lay it easy on the poor girl. After all, she has been through a lot for/with me over the last two and some years.
If there is anything that I appreciate about the software industry (seriously, can anything about it be appealing at all?) it is the absolute shamelessness with which components are re-used and re-purposed, how stuff is templatised. Being as it is that I happen to be a part of this industry, it was only a matter of time before I applied industry practices to my personal life. I am not happy about it but then even the best among us sometimes have bad hair days. This one, though, was especially bad.
Anyway, I intended to use the standard break-up template. What did I say? Quote:
"It is not me, it is you".
May be it was a Freudian slip. I don't know. But what I do know is that we ended up laughing our respective asses off. And Aran accorded it a place in the hall of the infinitely precious phrases.
PS: Feels good to finally be back to writing nonsense.
PPS: Using a PS in one's writing usually signifies bad writing skills.
PPPS: Sometimes, though, a PS adds to the effect.
PPPPS: Aran and I have not parted ways yet.
Current Mood: Gloomy
Current Music: David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World
23 Jul 2006, 7:38am
I agree with everything. Especially about the PS.
23 Jul 2006, 9:49am
A back-handed compliment? Either way, as long as you agree I have no complains.
23 Jul 2006, 11:33pm
'Aran and I have not parted ways yet.' Yet, Scripto? Does that mean you want to break up?! Using the break-up phrase and 'yet' in the same post, is this like a not-so-gentle nudge??!
23 Jul 2006, 11:38pm
My dear Aran, it pains my heart greatly that you should resport to doing what I have so often asked you to refrain from - reading too much into what I write. Why do you keep doing it? You might as well stab me with a hundred daggers.
23 Jul 2006, 11:42pm
I'm sorry, stabbing is not my thing. That's too easy, and I'm not - you should know that by now. :p
And about reading too much into what you say... how else am I supposed to interpret it? It's all too much for my poor heart, but then, I asked you if you meant it that way, didn't I?
23 Jul 2006, 11:45pm
Aran, my heart is weeping out here. Do I really need to answer it? Does not the rhythmic sobbing of my cardiac muscles tell the tale?
24 Jul 2006, 12:04am
Stop weeping and sobbing, Scripto. Imagine what I'm going through! What am I supposed to think? I told you why I thought what I did. Your sobbing cardiac muscles do tell me how it is now. But what was I supposed to think back then?! I was distraught! All the signs pointed to it... :(
24 Jul 2006, 12:07am
Again, my dear Aran, all that distraught'ness' of yours could have been avoided if you had not read too much into it. What I said in that statement spoke of facts as they were at the time of being reported. That it had the word 'yet' in it does not imply that future events need to be extrapolated from that statement. Take things for what they are. I am not a politician. I am your Scripto.
24 Jul 2006, 12:57am
Now what can I say to that.... This doesn't happen to me often Scripto. Revel. :)