November 20, 2003

9:39 am

you've been presumptuous: i did not go to travis's last night.  i wanted
to, but marsha wanted to go to the university (she had to use a computer)
and as she was driving (we live right by each other, so we often car-pool to
school at night), so who was i to argue?  i'm not sure if i should include
travis's on my list of
if-you-wanna-come-then-ask-me-because-i'm-tired-of-being-rejected things.  i
don't think i'm at that desparate state (yet).

i don't think you have a rash on your face at all.  stop complaining: you
are very nice to look at.  you did go too far with the self-deprecation and
you forgot to make it humourous (though the foul smell part is fairly
accurate - whoa!?! what's going on here? i've turned into you with the rude
tone of this email... i promise to revert back into nice mitchell mode).

i thought of the title of a single for us: either "i want you to be (my
scratching post)" or "(don't be) my scratching post" (not the original title
- it's escaped me now, but it, too, was in the negative).  i'm not sure
which one because i can't decide if being a scratching post is a good thing
or not.

to be honest with you, i couldn't name an alicia keyes song (though, surely
i would recognize one) and i was not aware that she only had one album.  i
try to avoid what i call "afro-music" (is she even black?  for some reason,
i think she is....hmmmm).  it's a racial thing, really.  i only listen to
bob marley because he's half white.  what was are other name (the original
one)?  remember?  i bastardized it until it had something to do with rabbis.
  oh curse this short term memory.

geez,i missed your morty joke until just now.  i mean, i got the morty
harrison part, but didn't get the ram part - i thought you were being
clever: using the ramones as an example (how they all had the same last
name).  i forgot about poor paul mccartney and his sheer stupidity.  i like
the ramones idea better than the mccartney reference.  i'd say that you were
morty ramon because your hair looks the most like joey ramone's.

with that thought, i will depart (from this computer, not from life).

peace and long life

mitchell ramon

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5:10 pm

i think we should only rip off one monkees song and, unfortunately, i
believe that "the nomad's theme" (how could we foget that name?) is more
essential than "i'm not your scratching post".  just my thoughts....

i hope that cd is ok.  also, i like hanging around with you, not just when
we have sex.  finally, i suppose you can have sex with that refugee
tomorrow, but only if i can attend and he brings his girlfriend (unless his
name is josh and his girlfriend's name is gill, 'cause then i'd be
uninterested).

i look forward to seeing you tomorrow and not having sex.

yours,
mitchell

p.s. sex sex sex sex sex sex sex
p.p.s. sorry, i'm just trying to get it all out of my system

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10:14 pm

 do you think i take everything as an insult?  that's madness!!!  i'm really
disaffected.  it's true.  except when you misinterpret what i say.  that
hurts my feelings.

let's drink some wine tomorrow before we see the poets.  poets + booze = jim
morrison... it could be beautiful.  maybe i'll finally 'understand' you. 
maybe i won't be so opaque.

i thought about starting my paper for david churchill tonight while i was at
travis's.  then i vetoed the idea and came home.  so it goes.

i think i'm going to go to bed.  or at least to my bedroom.  from there, my
plans remain unseen.  maybe i'll unvision a future world where everyone is
rewarded for their efforts instead of for their output.  but i probably
won't.

adieu,

mitchell