Byebye, Brain
Thursday, July 20, 2006
Margie stares at the computer screen, going over bits of her thesis proposal with much lethargy. The phone rings. Margie picks it up.Margie: Pubey Boy.
Pubey Boy makes a low-pitched hum.Margie: Hello?
Pubey Boy: You know that scene in “Adaptation” where Meryl Streep and Chris Cooper are on the phone and they do that dial-tone thing?
Margie: Yes.
Pubey Boy: That scene is brilliant.
Margie: Yes. Okay. So you do the low tone while I do the high tone. Game?
Pubey Boy: Game.
Both do their respective tones. The result is shitty. They stop. They scream.Pubey Boy: Oh gaaaaaaaaaad! Maaaaaarge!
Margie: Aaaaaah! We have no musicaliteeeeeeeeeeeee!
Silence.Pubey Boy: How will you write your methodology?
Margie: (mumbles incoherently)...or something like that.
Pubey Boy: Bye.
Margie: Bye.
Margie returns to the computer screen.
posted by marguerite @ 8:25 PM
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