Planting Planets

Captain’s Log

My dear, dear friend Kyle Patrick sends me some of the best emails in the world. For a while there I considered creating a second blog that was just correspondence between me and KP. He’s just a rad guy. Sometimes I think I should marry him just so I would have the coolest name ever. Patricia Patrick. Pat Pat. Patty Pat. Patsy Pat. Patsy Patty. I hope this doesn’t scare you KP. Anyway, here’s an example of what our blog would look like:

KP to me:

11:41 - decide to send email - I hold back from sending random emails. Because if I did it as much as I wanted to I wouldn’t have any friends. Please don’t feel like you have to read any of this or even reply. It just kept me sane all day. 

11:45 - Just stood up to see if someone was off the phone. She wasn’t. She looked at me. I felt invasive. I sit down. 

11:49 - I find myself reflecting on the episode of Boy Meets World  I watched this morning when Corey and Topanga get married. Who is my Topanga. I challenge you - who on television has portrayed such a love like Corey and Topanga?

11:54 - just congratulated @salsa4codydemi on Twitter for winning a promo contest I held for a free book. This person is from Indonesia and is obsessed with Demi Lovato and probably can’t read English very well. Enjoy the book. 

12:00 - have “Butterflyz” by Alicia Keys stuck in my head

12:09 - just edited 11:54

12:19 - if there was one thing I could do in life, it would be building treehouses and driving ice cream trucks. those are two things though. so i’ve just lost all credibility. 

12:20 - i accidentally bought plain lays chips yesterday by pushing F twice instead of FF at the vending machine. I left them on my desk. I looked at them now and they expired yesterday. that’s 2 bad things. 

1:23 - don’t worry. I’m still here. 

1:33 - 6’5” black woman just called me curly. scared to tell her that’s not my name. she could destroy me. 

1:38 - just agreed to work the “trail of terror”. will be scaring high school kids all night. 

2:25 - my female boss called me boo. i cannot tell you how much i hate that. unless Nelly is singing it. 

2:33 - “My Boo” by Nelly stuck in my head. 

2:53 - just finished my pbj - to avoid confusion that’s a peanut butter and jelly

2:54 - opened adweek.com (this is to make you think I’m well read)

3:09 - “My Boo” still stuck

3:22 - Phil got married this weekend. 

i feel like you’ve had enough for today. 

Me to KP:

Nov. 2, 2011

6:15pm- Saw I got an email from KP. Are you serious!? Yaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

6:19pm- Read email. I love this email. I am happy I have someone in my life that would send such an email. Wanting to respond immediately to KP’s email, but I’m going to have to wait to add more things to my log.

Nov. 3, 2011

8:55am- Got to work late, headed to a meeting in 5 minutes. Not happy. Not even a little bit. 

8:58am- Wearing a black shirt and forgot to lint roll. No time now, meeting is in 2 minutes. Not good when you have a white cat. 

10:04am- Got back from my meeting. A lady who is pretty unstable in general had to leave because she was crying. We were supposed to meet individually at 10am, but I’m assuming it’s cancelled because she was pretty obviously upset. 

11:57am- It’s almost lunchtime. I will be indulging in a Lean Cuisine. I miss my cat.

1:30pm- I have a two hour meeting starting in half an hour. I’m not looking forward to this at all. Thursdays are filled with meetings. I wish they were filled with meatings. Meatings would be like regular meetings except you’d eat a different type of meat at each one and then discuss it. Like, today we would be eating pork chops. I still miss my cat. 

10:09pm- What just happened? So much time has passed. I don’t want to send this yet, but I don’t want you think I am ignoring your email. This is the hardest part of all.

10:10pm- I’m listening to Ani Difranco.

Nov. 4, 2011

10:35am- I was hungry so I asked myself, “Why wait?” so I ate a Snickers. I regret this decision. I should have waited. 

10:40am- My knees hurt. I wonder what arthritis feels like. I’m not going to look it up because I don’t want to know. I’m too young for arthritis right? Oh dear. 

11:32am- I’ve been more productive this morning than I have been all week. And, I haven’t been too productive today, so what does that say about the rest of my week!? It says I haven’t been productive. 

11:36am- A friend just tried to convince me that bacon is a drug. I am inclined to believe him. 

12:36pm- Exactly one hour has passed since my last log in. How peculiar. 

12:57pm- I’ve been sneezing and hiccuping a lot today. Do you think my organs are trying to escape or something? I hope not. 

Nov. 5

6:55pm- Listening to Ryan Adams. I think I hurt my coccyx.

6:58pm- I don’t want to wait anymore for better things to happy to log about, so I will send this now. I hope you come out to Tiffany’s bday next weekend!!!

KP to me: 

I want to thank you for this luscious email reply. I was not expecting to receive one, much less a well nurtured one. I read it 3 or 4 times. 1 because i was bored at work. and 2 because your days were interesting. Everything is interesting when you only write down the interesting bits. 

I do hope I can make it to T. Kims festivities as I’m sure it will be nothing short of a hoot, however, I am supposed to go to Annapolis for some art thing my friend is doing. So I am torn and nowhere near emotionally ready to make this decision. 

I hope you are having a splendid day and that everything is going along swimmingly and that fairies make you dinner and tuck you in tonight.