Wednesday, 8 December 2010

You Don’t Counteract A Ruy Lopez With A Lativan Gambit.

Life Lesson #154: Levantine Hummus spiked up with Jerk seasoning is almost like Margaritas, except that they function without the aftermath of a skull-sucking hangover AND they make you feel a hell of a lot warmer. You’d have to temporarily give up on the use of most of your taste buds for the day tho. But hell, who needs that many anyway?

Life Lesson #155: ‘A cup of candles, oh they flicker. Oh they flicker and they float, and I’m up here holding onto all those chandeliers of hope. Like some drunkard Elvis singing, I go singing out of tune. Saying how I always loved you darling, and I always will. Oh when you’re still waiting for the snow to fall, it doesn’t really feel like Christmas at all.'

Life Lesson #156: It’s the little confirmations that there’s one thing you’re doing right, like a cheap-ass pen that epitomises that maths equation that nobody could solve but you. Who woulda thought that a little “Shatra” from your dad and maths teacher could have you regress into your three-year-old self and you end up smiling wide enough to catch flies in your teeth?

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Life Lesson #157: Tying a watch to on of your two primary limbs will not help you keep time as much as gluing a compass to your forehead will help you have a better sense of direction. It just makes it the second most obsessed-over abstract principle ever concocted. And no, you don’t want me talking about the first. At least not when I’m experiencing a Levantine high and a Taoist low.

Life Lesson #158: “What do you mean you’re trying?  You don’t try, you do it.” – Dad.

Life Lesson #159: Knight to E4. Bishop to E4. Queen to E4. Pawn to E4. Rook to E8. Checkmate.

2 comments:

Laura R. said...

First line: "Levantine Humans..." What? "Levantine Humans..." Umm.. she eats humans? *reread* "Levantine Hummus..." Ooooh!

Suzy Joseph said...

yes, you don't try, you just do it.