Ep. 10 - Finders Keepers
In a week when my life began its 180º turn it was surprisingly calm. Nevertheless, Graça is a neighborhood full of surprises. I think it’s because it’s so windy, this way things tend to never remain in the same place. This way, for the last two days I have been putting hundreds of papers in order, alphabetically, into three large files. So the next time I need any of those papers I’ll find them quickly, my life will be easier and no time will be lost. I am very organized and I like things to be that way. This is why I don’t need some guy to come into my life all of a sudden and invade my alphabetically organized feelings and shuffle them all over. We met casually, had a casual coffee followed by a wonderful walk while having a wonderfully insightful conversation. He took me to a Chinese supermarket and bought me some instant soup: «Eat it in a gloomy evening, like those women in Sex And The City do!». «I don’t feed my rainy evenings» - I replied - «I’ll eat it through Desperate Housewives!». He smiled his approval and we could feel the complicity was already installed. Alphabetically he’s attractive, angry, big, cultured, hunky, interesting, insurgent, older, has a nice voice and a whole room full of tennis shoes (so he told me). I have a whole shelf with my tennis shoes and an empty folder under the letter L. When we said goodbye he said: «Kid, you have good skin velocity, I like you!».
Skin Velocity… which folder should that go to? He’ll definitely go to K as in Keeper but I am looking forward to what I’ll find in next encounters.
July 5th, 2008 at 2:15
Skin Velocity??? Who is that guy? lol