My friend Adam--he's a card and a brick. Here's more proof!
In which my absence ruins a trip:
Thank you for your sympathy about the Stratford trip. Yes indeed, if you had been there of course the plays would have been better. You know for next time.
Sadly, I don't believe there's been a next time for me since then...and that was in 2002 or thereabouts. I miss Stratford. :(
In which he explains the facts of poverty to me:
In answer to your question about how I financed the last out east trip. 1. I am now broke. 2. I slept in my van most of the time and ate 'things from home'.
A series of interesting closes to emails:
Write back & let me know if you'll be in town.
Seriously,
Adam
P.S. Oh, and I didn't call your house and hang up. It sounds like something Bill Kerr might do though.
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Good to hear from you.
I have not picked up smoking or anything else.
Adam
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I hope you're doing well and I'll talk to you soon. Kasey, I will.
In which Adam writes one of the worst travel advertisements ever:
Thank you for your well wishes regarding my trip to the wilds of S. India. It was indeed wild, it involved being locked in a train bathroom, being borderline assaulted by eunuchs (3 times), being sunburnt beneath my level 40 sunblock in the Bay of Bengal, and visiting an oprhanage full of the nicest little kids I ever met but will not adopt.
Are you involved in the Willow this year? I already asked you that didn't I. I apologize, it is the heat, it is 104 here today.
Regarding an inundation of advertisements from eHarmony:
I hear your in-box is full of Christian singles. I'm sorry to hear that, at least they are Christians. If you do decide to utilze a Christian dating service, I would suggest that you bring at least one friend along with you. In fact, if you utilize a dating service, I will come along.
This is unlikely to ever be necessary (I am constitutionally unsuitable for e-dating), but I appreciate the thought. If I had remembered this when Mom was meeting Don though, I would certainly have passed the offer along.
In which Adam shows perspective is key:
Katherine,
Did you know that there is a Shakespearean character named after you. Several of them! It doesn't matter much though because neither of us will be going to Stratford this year, because I and I believe you, are the dirt poor.
I thought I'd start off with something dismal, and let the letter progress upwards.
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And now, just to balance things out a little bit, I offer you one of the many moments in which Adam is not funny, but rather deeply wise and encouraging. I value these moment just as much, if not more:
Emotional memory comes in waves. There are stretches where you don't think about it twice, and then stretches of time when you think about it quite vividly. Knowing that there is some pattern to it, helped me prepare myself against despair.
My friend Adam, ladies and gentlemen!
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I will probably have more to say later, but now I just have to nit-pick. eHarmony is not a "Christian dating" site. The founder is, that is all.
Sorry, it's nearing the end of the day and my humor is lacking. *yawn*
Granted. And really, I was condensing a bunch of different sites (most of them with 'Christian' or 'church' in their names) that were sending stuff around then, if I recall correctly. I used the best known example on the blog for shortness, but you're right.
Still, mostly he was just being silly. :)
Mmmm...crunchy salty Adam bits.
A lot of people have that misconception so I tend to jump on it. Yeah.
Adam has a unique and excellent sense of humor that I miss. I haven't seen him in four years. We aren't really close enough to correspond, though.
What does it mean when you call someone a "brick"? Googling didn't help, unless you are calling him a large amount of cocaine.
I am not referring to him as cocaine. (This made me giggle.)
Apparently this term is yet another of my inadvertant Britishisms. I found this on Wiktionary:
(informal) A helpful and reliable person
i. e. Thanks for helping me wash the car. You're a brick.
-- 1863, Elizabeth Caroline Grey, Good Society; Or, Contrasts of Character[1], page 72,
"It's easy to see you're a brick!” replied Lady Augusta, and the laugh again became general.
-- 1906, Edith Nesbit, The Railway Children[2], page 168,
‘Somebody had to stay with you,’ said Bobbie.
‘Tell you what, Bobbie,’ said Jim, ‘you’re a brick. Shake.’
--1960, W.W. Jacobs, Cargoes[3], ISBN 0828314306, page 45,
“Well, I’ll do what I can for you,” said the seaman, …“If you were only shorter, I'd lend you some clothes.”
“You're a brick,” said the soldier gratefully.
This is i-hubby. Love the "Britishism", and Adam sounds like a hoot and a half!
Is it Stratford in Ontario which is mentioned? My friends just got back from that Stratford. (If it's another Stratford, I don't think they're back from there. That I know of.)
constitutionally unsuitable for e-dating
My first thought was it was unfair that the Bill of Rights prohibited you from dating. Cause, you know, that makes sense.
You know, you can just call yourself "Jon" or "IP Jon," if you prefer. :) And yes, that Stratford. With the Shakespeare (etc.) festival. I went there for about nine years in a row and then...nothin'.
Jen, I adore you. For obvious reasons. :) Honestly, sometimes it does feel like it's a vast conspiracy by our founding fathers against me dating. It makes a certain amount of sense and takes a WHOLE lot of pressure and guilt off me. I blame Button Gwinnett!!!!
"Jon" it is. "IP Jon" would open questions about frequent trips to the restroom. ;)
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