I'm sitting here in Panera Brad taking advantage of free wi-fi and unintentionally listening to phone conversations of an unemployed young woman(YW) in a booth just beyond an adjoining table. There's been a lot of "Who said that?" "Who told you?"
YW has used the word Christian a lot, but confessed to using it "loosely". She's left her husband who is a truck driver who doesn't shower often, gone down the corkscrew of divorce and is now living with her female lover who has made her a better student. She has a 3.11 grade point average to prove it! Obama's incentives for young mothers to pursue an education seem to have helped her as she earned less than $7000 last year. Far as I know she only has a dog, but we haven't actually spoken to each other or shared life stories for me to be able to confirm that detail.
YW's dad's a minister and a friend has asked her to perform an upcoming wedding. Now she's concerned that her dad will be mad if she's stealing weddings he could have performed. I guess it is an income stream.
The friend gave YW her fiancee's birthdate and other vital numbers so YW could do a calculation to see if they are likely to bond. Seems the numbers came out right and YW's given approval for the upcoming wedding. YW's also just done a test on Facebook and come up with similarities to her favorite actresses. She's excited about that affirmation.
YW's asked if her phone friend is going to church. Nope. "Well try again. There are other churches out there. Go to my dad's church."
YW's parents were mad at her when she eloped with Jared, her former husband who made about $27,000 last year and started smoking again, but they got over it in about two months. They're made at her now too, but this too will pass, she thinks.
A friend has just had a loan approved for a car with a moon roof. She's held down a job for a year and her bankruptcy was long enough ago that she can qualify for credit again. She's ecstatic about this cool car.
She's writing a trilogy about vampires and feeds the chapters to an editor or her agent one by one. Part's of YW's story sounds like J.K. Rawlings. Parts of the story sound too strange to be grounded in anyone's reality. Someone is confused. I'm pretty sure I am, but others must be too, not least of whom is YW.
You know how Toastmasters assigns table topics at the last minute and members get up and speak extemporaneously for a number of minutes? How about the storytelling workshops where people are given components of a story and have to weave them in to a cohesive whole? I feel like I'm in a Matrix somewhere between Middle Earth and Mayberry.
YW has used the word Christian a lot, but confessed to using it "loosely". She's left her husband who is a truck driver who doesn't shower often, gone down the corkscrew of divorce and is now living with her female lover who has made her a better student. She has a 3.11 grade point average to prove it! Obama's incentives for young mothers to pursue an education seem to have helped her as she earned less than $7000 last year. Far as I know she only has a dog, but we haven't actually spoken to each other or shared life stories for me to be able to confirm that detail.
YW's dad's a minister and a friend has asked her to perform an upcoming wedding. Now she's concerned that her dad will be mad if she's stealing weddings he could have performed. I guess it is an income stream.
The friend gave YW her fiancee's birthdate and other vital numbers so YW could do a calculation to see if they are likely to bond. Seems the numbers came out right and YW's given approval for the upcoming wedding. YW's also just done a test on Facebook and come up with similarities to her favorite actresses. She's excited about that affirmation.
YW's asked if her phone friend is going to church. Nope. "Well try again. There are other churches out there. Go to my dad's church."
YW's parents were mad at her when she eloped with Jared, her former husband who made about $27,000 last year and started smoking again, but they got over it in about two months. They're made at her now too, but this too will pass, she thinks.
A friend has just had a loan approved for a car with a moon roof. She's held down a job for a year and her bankruptcy was long enough ago that she can qualify for credit again. She's ecstatic about this cool car.
She's writing a trilogy about vampires and feeds the chapters to an editor or her agent one by one. Part's of YW's story sounds like J.K. Rawlings. Parts of the story sound too strange to be grounded in anyone's reality. Someone is confused. I'm pretty sure I am, but others must be too, not least of whom is YW.
You know how Toastmasters assigns table topics at the last minute and members get up and speak extemporaneously for a number of minutes? How about the storytelling workshops where people are given components of a story and have to weave them in to a cohesive whole? I feel like I'm in a Matrix somewhere between Middle Earth and Mayberry.
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