Presentation, My Friend With Huge Boobs -style Wednesday, Apr 16 2008 

Last Thursday My Friend With Huge Boobs was supposed to give a presentation about her thesis. On the morning of the said presentation we spoke on the phone.

My Friend With Huge Boobs: I have no idea what to wear!

I suggested several outfits, from what I remembered her to have. She didn’t feel like any of them.

My Friend With Huge Boobs: It has to be something comfortable as I’ll have to stand there, in front of everyone…

Then she carried on for bout 20 minutes about how idiotic it was that we have to give a presentation on paper everyone has to read in advance for the meeting.

My Friend With Huge Boobs: That’s it! I’m coming naked! I’m just going to say ‘I didn’t come up with anything to wear, so I came naked!’”

She didn’t, in the end.

Lions Tuesday, Apr 15 2008 

The Finnish Elite League season is over. Most foreign leagues are over. The NHL is in the first round of play-offs, the regular season (and the season as far as BF is concerned, once again) is over. The fun is only beginning.

There is something to pick you up once the hockey season is over every spring, and that is the World Championships. For me, picking my favourites in international games has always been a process that confuses many. Given my background, it’s difficult to guess who I support. The French? The Americans? Or maybe the Finns? I solved that many years ago by picking my favourites separately for each sport. It’s France for football, Americans for T&F (except javelin), Americans also for tennis, Finns for most winter sports (except alpine skiing). Hockey? The sport I love most in the entire world? Finland. Always, all the way.

The World Championship tournament of ice hockey takes place later this spring and I cannot wait for it to start. Right now there are also the under-18 World Champs underway. By this logic of holding world championship tournaments at the end of the season it would make sense to also have the under-20 champs right now. But that’s troublesome. There are often players playing in either both U-18 and U-20 tournaments, or U-20 and the grow-ups. So the U-20 tournament is over New Year’s.

The Finnish national hockey team is called The Lions. Because there’s a lion in the Finnish arms. So The Lions are gearing up for the upcoming World Championships in Canada as we speak. I love that nickname. But what I love more is the derivatives of that. The U-20 team has long been referred to as The Little Lions. And now, reading about the first game of the WC tournament of the U-18 team (they won), I came across the derivative used for them: The Lion Cubs. Now, how cute is that??

Go Lions!

“you-thing” Wednesday, Apr 9 2008 

According to BF there’s a mysterious something about me that he called “you-thing”. A me-thing. How he got there is actually fairly simple. He was telling me about this totally ridiculous story about one of his team mates and said:

“really, it was such a you-thing to say!”

A me-thing?

Apparently a me-thing is something totally out of place in normal grown-up context and more likely to appear in either a Marx Brothers movie, or in my life. Like…

- when I managed to set a book on fire while reading in bath. I was going for the relaxing romantic feel, I got a good book, a hot bath with some really nice bath salts, some candles, a chilled (big) class of Gewürztraminer and all the time in the world. It was just lovely… Until I reached for my glass without taking my eyes off the page, held out the book for balance and, accidentally showed the book to a candle. Book caught fire, I screamed, tried to wave the book around to make it stop burning, actually not realising that fast that I’m sitting in a tub-full of water when BF rushes in after hearing my scream and just starts laughing his butt off.

- when I was pulled over by police for a breathalyzer (they were pulling everyone over). The cop, a young guy, looks down at me as I roll down the window, stops, takes another look and looks closer. I’m slightly confused until I realise he’s reading the print on my t-shirt. He starts to laugh out loud, calls over his partner to get a look of my shirt too, and finally they, still laughing, just tell me to go. They never made me blow into that straw-thingy. Oh, and what did my t-shit say? “Occifer, I swear to drunk I’m not God!”

- when I redecorated BF’s flat while he was on an away-game trip. When he asked me why I did it, I said: “I couldn’t find your copy of Coelho’s Alchemist.” He never really got to the logic behing going from looking for a book to redecorating an entire apartment, but that was probably because I distracted him with some lingerie. But I think he liked it. At least he kept it. edit: the apartment, not the lingerie. Though he did seem to like the lingerie too, come to think of it.

- when I said I need to focus on my school work instead of chatting with BF and watching a movie, and went to change into a plaid skirt and a white dress shirt. (what??? I concentrate better in that, it’s the whole school uniform -thing!) I did add knee socks but that was just for fun.

- when I was introduced to someone with a name “Lydia” and had to ask if she had any tattoos.

- when I had a debate with myself over which movie I want to see.

There are plenty of other examples, but you’re already getting quite enough potential blackmailing material on me.

Anyways, that’s a “me-thing”. Saying “I hate early. Must kill early” when the alarm goes off in the morning. Summing up my busy schedule to “thesis to write, shoes to buy”. Wearing sky-high heels, mini leather skirt, a turtleneck cashmere sweater and glasses to a dinner with BF and his agent to look intelligent and business-like.

Exclaiming “I have a me-thing!” as the last thing before hanging up with BF.

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