More Holiday Talk with Ellen Lin

Back for more, after our lovely conversation about Labor Day. We could make this a quarterly thing. And Thanksgiving is the always the fourth Thursday of November, apparently.

Ellen: hey what day is thanksgiving?

 me: thursday

 Ellen: but which one?

 me: 11/24

  the last thurs of november always.

  or is it the thursday of the last full week in november

  i forget

 Ellen: hah i have no idea

  but i think that sounds right!

  haha

10:36 PM me: why do you ask

  do you need me to google things for you again

  http://lmgtfy.com/?q=when+is+thanksgiving%3F

 Ellen: hahaahha i hate you

10:37 PM i love googleeee :D

LMGTFY may or may not be a love language... Questionable.

 Ellen:  is labor day a national holiday?

hahah

 me:  lol yes

 Ellen:  oh haha okay

whats it for

 me:  women giving birth

just kidding...

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=labor+day+history

 Ellen:  HAHAHAH

oh thanks

 me:  oh youre welcome

anything for you

i will even google things for you

 Ellen:  lol how did you do that

 me:  http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+do+you+lmgtfy

 Ellen:  hahah stop it!

just tell me

i dont get it

 me:  LOL

 Ellen:  ohh wait

i got it now!

hahaha

 me:  step 1. go to lmgtfy.com

 Ellen:  found it!!!

hehe

Team Rocket!!

to protect the church from condemnation!

to preach the gospel to every nation!

to pronounce the goodness of truth and love!

to extend our praise to heaven above!

*wistful*

JESSICA!

JAMES!

:oB

Comparing top teeth with a Florentine. A train, 2011 March.

 Joshua Liu:  WHAT is THAT?

:oB

a rabbit?

 Sent at 1:18 PM on Tuesday

 me:  it's me lol

people keep saying my front teeth are rounded

 Sent at 1:45 PM on Tuesday

 Joshua Liu:  LOL

SO TRUE

 me:  hahah see?

 Sent at 2:01 PM on Tuesday

 Joshua Liu:  I KNOW

i used to file them while you were sleeping

And that's how the bunny came to be.

Feeding me his birthday cake. Warrenville, 1990 August.

"Easter Bunny" was my least favorite Josh-given nickname,

even worse than Fatch, Fuggle, Faggle, Fatchlette, Futch,
Mei, Meishua, Stir, Stirring Stick, Tuh, and Tubby.

Family Fun

Uncle Tim, Dad's little ninja brother who lives in the city and who has a glass eye and who married a Brazilian lady whose last name is Castro and who we like to call Uncle Ted a la "Bobby's World," came over today.


We told him his eye needed polishing and suggested Windex, then glitter, and then wasabi; when it gets dull you can tell that his left eye is fake. I never could tell as a child which one was real, and if he told me I wouldn't remember. I'm pretty certain he alternated his answer each time anyway. And I would ask to poke his eyes to verify.


He asked about life in Harlem and my week in South Bronx, and of course the stories included Minnow's of Shadynasty [ʃə˧-daI˦-nə˧-sti˨]... which steered the conversation to other favorites like La-a (Ladasha) and Lashlasha, Lacomma, Watermelondrea, Usnavy, Cherokee (Shiraq-i), Lemonjello, Orangejello, [ə˧-ʃo˦-leI˨], [ʃə-θid]...


In the words of Jonathan Walton's embarrassment: "Are we blacks the only ones who do this to our children?!" Well, Jonathan Paul Walton himself having maybe the whitest appellation ever appears to have been spared.

E: Uncle Ted, if you were black, what would you name your children?

Tim: 那個... and... 這個 (Nigga and Chigga. Their approximants in Mandarin mean "that one" and "this one" respectively.) 

At one point this afternoon Ma had Josh and me stretch her by the hands and feet. Hello? Did this actually happen?!? Also she let me punch her armpits as a "massage."


Around 8:30pm on 3 April 2010 as I was about to make a 10-min drive to Franklin's:

Ma: Remember to drive carefully, don't come home too late [...clipped...] and if you are getting tired, call and we can talk and I can keep you awake ... but don't call while you are driving ...

Josh: ... and if you need to pee, do it in little spurts so you can wait for it to evaporate. Also if you need more advice, call me. 

Friday Funnies

Jessica:  they call "us" team rocket
 which was a pokemon reference i didn't get
 until they said the peoples names were jessie and james

Pearl: haha you giddy cheeseball

Norman: "its 4:38 pm. do you know where your children are?"
 I DO!

Kevin: dranks are like unwholesome lovers
 they take you for a spin
 and then leave you reeling

They're watching, they knoowww!!

Today our apartment received an anthropologie catalog in the mail addressed to ESTHER SHIBATA.

Be a part of God's system

"... I’m going to soon reach a breaking point, and I will want to throw everything down..."

Steve's tumblr post reminded me I've been meaning to share this awesome work of my dear friend Rebecca who I miss every day. For their IV-equivalent of Epiphany she and friends parodied Andy Samberg's SNL digital short "On the Ground"

(WES THROWS MATT'S PORN TO THE GROUND)

I was walkin' through the freshman dorm
And a man walks up to me, hands me the latest issue of porn
"More pleasure, your desire"
--MAN, I'm not gonna let you poison me

I threw it on the ground
You must think I like sin!
I ain't gonna be part of that system--
MAN! Pump that garbage in another man's face

(REBECCA THROWS MATT TO THE GROUND)

I go to my favorite SI session
An unbeliever says,
"I think you're mighty fine! You can have me for free..."
I said, "MAN! What I look like? Proverbs 7?"

I took him, and threw him on the GROUND!
--I don't need your temptations!
--I'm a royal priesthood!
Puh-leez. You can't buy me, unclean man!

(WES THROWS REBECCA'S BOOK TO THE GROUND)

At the bio lab with my so-called partner
She hands me her textbook, she says "OMG!"
--MAN, this ain't my God,
This is a TEXTBOOK!

I threw it on the ground!
What, you think I'm STUPID?
Idols ain't part of my system
My God's not a book--DUUH!!

(MATT THROWS PHARISEE-WES TO THE GROUND)

Some poser invites me to a worship party
Where's he at?
I'll check on him. What's this?

Hypocrite to the ground!
I threw the pillow on him, too!
Welcome to the real world, Pharisee!

Rebecca: So many things to throw on the ground
Matt: Like lust, and hate,
Wes: and fear, and even shame
All: I'm a POLISHED ARROW!

(REBECCA CONVERTS MATT & WES)--hits pamphlets out of their hands

Two atheist phonies try to feed me their religion
---GROOOOUUND!---
You can't have na world without God, phonies!

Then the two phonies got up
Turned out they lived in Glaser
And then I whipped out my Bible
Knees to the ground
The phonies didn't get up
I was preachin' bout Jesus over and over

They were repentin' and believin'
Their souls were on fire
The moral of the story is

ALL:

Be a part of God's system

... MAN!!

She's wonderful. :)

Lucy

Yesterday I was getting on the 1 train after Redeemer's evening service, and there were 3 rowdy hoodlums in the car -- probably around my age. Early during that 60-block ride from 79th one of them stops paying attention to his friends and begins to stare oh-so-awkwardly, as I try without success to avert his gaze in Maslow's Religions, Values, and Peak Experiences.

I'm stepping off the train now and he grabs the other guy's arm... "Man I saw dat girl in dat movie Keill Bill!" "Awwwww shoooot..."

If I had still been on the train and clever enough I should have said meng I knows you! I seen you in the Gangster's Paradise. Or JayZ's last vid.

This Week in GTalk

My brother, on flying home the weekend of 10/8.

Joshua: you saved us
mom just called and was like
esther is coming home, so me and dad are no longer going to go visit you guys
Sent at 11:14 AM on Saturday

Calvin Chung, on saying "oh I'm sure" when I said I had a tiring first week in NY.

Calvin: i'm being non-sarcastic
travel back and forward is a lot of work
Sent at 12:03 PM on Friday

Mallory Baysek, on the cruelties of Yale.

Mallory: THERE IS NOT CHIPOTLE HERE IT'S REALLY REALLY BAD FOR ME
Sent at 3:19 PM on Thursday

Paul Liu on google chat.

Dad: what's up meimei
Sent at 2:43 PM on Thursday

Ed Hsu, on mutual missage.

Ed: :/ we all miss you a ton!!
i wish you could be closer by
or at least more often visitable/visited
Sent at 10:26 AM on Thursday

Laura Chou, on potential love interests.

Laura: that's confusing you can only pick one
You can't be a sports jock, a softie, and a nerd
that's what categories are for
and not a vinn diagram
Sent at 3:59 PM on Wednesday

Leo Hua, on NYC.

Leo: gotta love the 3rd wheel action
me: but it makes me sick for home or something
not that theres a boy waiting for me at home
but it just makes being alone even more glaringly obvious
Leo: nothing wrong with being alone :o
me: err i dont mean single i mean alone
Leo: yeah alone =P
well it's better to choose to be alone
than to try to make friends and end up alone
harhar
nyc is a pretty lonely place
i hope to make some friends someday
Sent at 10:44 PM on Tuesday

James Jih, on Staedtler Triplus Fineliners.

Jimmy: and then finally seeing the benefits of color coded note taking
one look of a boring all pen or all pencil note taking i get so zoned out
and think that these notes are boring
Sent at 10:40 PM on Tuesday

Bobby Wei, on my lasting legacy.

showmethewei: check this out
one of the survey questions that we had to fill out for our dorm building
was what movie/book would you recommend
4) For films, I would recommend either “Remember the Titans” or” Zoolander”. The former is an inspiring story while the latter a classic comedy, bringing spiritual enlightenment to all who see it.
Sent at 10:11 AM on Tuesday

Ed Hsu, on the inner workings of the male mind.

Ed: guys do not invest time on a girl unless he 1) likes you or 2) likes your friend
period
Sent at 11:24 PM on Monday

Laura Chou, on being feverish.

Laura: the fever is burning away the intelligent brain cell
and yes i do mean "cell"
Sent at 8:08 PM on Sunday

I love love love my funny friends. :)