A Thread for Estela

ok, well i just remembered that i have a yahoo account too. we can just chat through that. I don't know if i'll be up in an hour, but it is possible. sign on through meebo or just straight yahoo and it should work

ok i'm back, and signed into messenger.

and if it's too late for today this is still progress.

ha i'm actually still up. but just for a bit longer. jammingjamjammy is my screen name on yahoo. add me as a buddy and im that shit.

i added you, it said you are offline.

i'm estelaisalei.

did you all ever chat?

i'm not sure. i might have been dreaming.

chat can take a person to a higher plain

i might have bored lingbert to sleep.

estela, did you dress your dog up for halloween?

no, i was a little bit tempted to but i was afraid it would compromise his dogtegrity.

Did you mean: dog tegrity

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Thanks, I'll be here all week

the other day i took my dog for a walk and a small boy of about six wearing a white shirt with rolled up sleeves and a smart vest appeared from behind a hedge and patted him, and then told me he lives in papua new guinea and that are hardly any dogs there and the ones you see usually only have two legs. i said, only two, and he said yes, and also the bees over there are so big they eat birds. he made a large circle with his hands to show me the average diameter of the bees. i put a frightened look on my face and he gave a nonchalant shrug, then his eyes landed on some jacaranda petals on the ground and he said its all right because if you ever see a bee coming all you have to do is stick a flower petal onto your leg and it makes them stay away. i thanked him for the tip. he said actually there are quite a few dogs over there but you mainly see them in the company of women who are about to take them out of the country. then he said he hoped his flight home wasn't going to be bumpy. i said i was sure it wouldn't be and he looked very relieved and then we parted ways.

how big was the diameter of the large bees?

whoa i guess you could say that expression "the birds and the bees" takes on a whole new dimension in PNG

the diameter was as big as his hands would go. i think everything he said was a lie except the bit about not liking turbulence. he was a corker, i laughed all the way home.

maybe he wasn't even from papua new guinea

i was that boy, once

well then <3<3<3 to you.

lxy, i think he was from png, he had the slightly anglicised accent of an ex-pat. so that is two true things.

haha, jergins with your smart vest and your clever lies!

i was the 6 year old girl who always told the truth, all of it, all the time, to everyone, often in song. also i was always the first person on the block to introduce herself and welcome new neighbors.

i am not like that any more.

when i was six i wrote two stories, one was about an alien who went to school on the moon and the other was about a prairie dog and used thinly disguised versions of my friends as characters

when i was in elementary school (maybe 2nd grade?), i continuously bounced on my pogo ball from my house to my elementary school and back one weekend. i'm not sure how far it was. and i actually just went on google maps to find out how far. it seemed like much longer when i was a kid, and it's only actually about a mile round trip. but still. also, wtf the city has google street view! but seattle still doesn't. it was a trip seeing my old house though! this has also provided a brief but solid way for me to procrastinate.

this is a pogo ball for those who don't know:

omg <3<3<3 to all of you.

your mother in law is french?

your husband is curiously multi-national

my mother in law is a big bag of trouble but (and) i <3 her.

my father in law is mexican, also <3. he tells me secrets, some of them are quite astonishing.

the blood of how many countries is running through your husbands veins?!

how many is france and mexico and usa.

i'm glad you're not posting as Uncle Shavedlongcock while you discuss his veins.

3

is how many

3 veins...how do u know that??

*smdh*

estswella

sweat sell

i've gone off veins as a word except when preceded by leaf.

even then

leaf veins sounds pale green and delicate.

k

thank you for your consideration.

dearest estela,

did you figure out why you got the red subscription note at the top of itr?

love,
lxy

dear lxy,

no i didn't.

<3estela

dearest estela,

did you accidentally subscribe to a daily email from robot?

xo
lx

probably, though if i did i never received it, which is good because the unhelpfulness of itr might have saddened me.

^dear lxy

as an experiment i subscribed (today) to a daily email from this board. it was sent at 4:05 pdt, and you posted "i just clicked on this board..." at 4:10, so the timing makes me wonder.

being an archivist at heart, i am going to maintain my subscription.

estela, what will you be having thanksgiving dinner?