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This site is a continuation of my online novel-in-email, xo bri xoxo me xoxoxo love you christy. Call it a soap opera in email.

Sunday, March 11, 2007

Re6 The Exam

From: brianpressley14
To: Ledoux67
Date: 3/7/07 11:22:20 AM Eastern Standard Time
Subject: Re: The exam

Well, if you wanna match me track for track on the Count Basie, "Yesterday" just ended, with a vocalist who sounds suspiciously like he's been told to try to sound like Jimmy Rushing.

And if you ask me Rae actually seems to me more like a lash me to a tree type, haha.

I love you sweetie and I want to write more and I love you but the caffeine is kicking in and I'm feeling a little scattered and loopy so as soon as I hit send I am going to log off and I love you!!! And that's the song: "And I Love Her."

To answer your question, yes I'll take the snowshoes out while you shush. And then I will get you good later today... meet me in the garage after Becca goes to bed??

Offline now! xoxoxoxoxoxo bri

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Re5 The Exam

From: ledoux67
To: brianpressley14
Date: 3/7/07 11:16:53 AM Eastern Standard Time
Subject: Re: The exam

I know you said you were logging off, but knowing you, you'll stay on just long enough for me to write back.

I knew that they BOTH could tell that I knew they were checking you out, and if you think that them seeing you with me and Becca was a deterrent, think again. Try "aphrodisiac." Nothing sexier to a girl that age than a guy like you. Nothing sexier to me either. I mean there you are, in your black t-shirt with the cutoff sleeves, hammering away on that bass... what's not to love???

That drummer DID seem like the chain me up in the garage type, now that you mention it, lmaaao.

See you when you get home sweetie! xoxoxoxoxo me

P.S. we are listening to Count Basie too so we can listen to what you are!

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Re4 The Exam

From: brianpressley14
To: ledoux67
Date: 3/7/07 11:02:47 AM Eastern Standard Time
Subject: Re: The exam

Awwwww thanks sweetie... I'm glad you still get jealous... but I gotta tell YOU something... if you think that girls that age who don't know how to look at guys my age so that girls your age can't tell they're looking can't tell that girls your age can tell that you know they're looking, you're sorely mistaken. They didn't say anything but I am sure they picked up you picking them up. I sort of felt the rays coming my way in class a couple times before our rehearsal and even when we got out here (I sort of think that Rae --drummer-- was thinking the only reason I wanted us to rehearse out here was so I could strip her and chain her up in the garage or something) but when you and Becca got here, I felt that vibe float away up into the pine boughs. Something about seeing a guy my age at home with his woman and daughter is a powerful deterrent, I suppose.

Anyway, I didn't cut my fingernails this week, so I can scratch their eyes out myself if they try anything, although you're welcome to yourself... I wouldn't want to deprive you.

I love love love love you too, in other words.

I'm halfway done and will be there with the dawgs rings chili and Becca's birch beer by 1, latest! I'm gonna log off so I can get this done, ok??? xoxoxoxox bri


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Re3 The Exam

From: ledoux67
To: brianpressley14
Date: 3/7/07 10:49:27 AM Eastern Standard Time
Subject: Re: The exam

KAREN!! DId you ask her about Royboy?

Your order confirmation is correct sweetie, and beverages: Becca wanted a birch beer... I told her that if you got her a birch beer that by the time you got out here with it, the ice would be all melty and it'd be watered down, and she said "Then tell him to get a bottle" lmaaao. And I WOULD mind her ramming around all afternoon on a sugar high, but the plan for after yunch is to strap on the skis and go out shushin', so get her a bottle of birch beer. We have cokes here so if I want something I can have that.

Sorry to disturb you but this is writing back and forth is FUN isn't it???

I miss you and can't wait for you to get home... will you take your snowshoes out when we shush??

Can I confess something to you? That you playing those gigs with the band with the rock and roll girls made me JEALOUS and I saw the way they were looking at you (girls that age don't know how to look at guys your age so that girls MY age can't tell they're looking)... I know you're mine mine mine but still just wanted to be there at that gig keeping an eye on you so bad... not because I don't trust you, but because I just could see them checking you out and I wanted to be there to claw their eyes out if they tried anything.

I love love love you in other words!

See you when you get home sweetie! xoxoxoxoxo me


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Re2 The Exam

From: brianpressley14
To: ledoux67
Date: 3/7/07 10:38:47 AM Eastern Standard Time
Subject: Re: The exam

It says "Due to." You don't think they'll change it back, do you?

I'm at the cafe, sitting not four feet from this very cozy fireplace, and their satellite music SUCKS so I have my phones on, playing BASIE'S BEATLE BAG whilst I grade... and it appears we were both wrong... according to the exams I've looked at so far, GEORGE was the dreamy one, haha.

So let me get this straight: you want two everything, Becca wants one everything plus chili which we will share and/or fridge if she doesn't eat all of, which she won't because I'm getting a large and am COUNTING on leftovers, plus rings a'plenty, and whatever I want, and a booster on top of it.

Beverages? Or seeing as Becca is home and thus will be spending the afternoon inside with us, do you want to skip the sody pop??

I'll be here till around noon, and will stop in at Ernie's and order when I leave here, then walk back to campus, put the exams out, check my phone one last time, then get the car, swing around and pick up lunch and beverages, and then come out to see my only two girls you know who they are!!

And I'll THINK about getting you good.

Anyway I should be back around 1.

It wasn't that bad a drive in, although I had it in first almost all the way to the campground. A little slick but I just took my time.

Back to gradin'... later! xoxoxoxo bri

P.S. Karen just popped in here for a to-go... she says HI.


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Re The Exam

From: ledoux67
To: brianpressley14
Date: 3/7/07 9:58:52 AM Eastern Standard Time
Subject: Re: The exam

You haven't gotten me good in a while, you dirty boy...

I WAS on the phone with Mom ("So Becca will not be over today after school?" I swear either she's getting alzheimer's or she just wanted to make small talk, because she knows there is no school, and if there is no school, then it stands to reason that THERE IS NO AFTER SCHOOL!!! so of course Becca will not be there because she'll be HERE)

Anyway you move fast. I got off the line not two minutes after the YOI from your email and you were already gone (or maybe just standing there and letting it ring like you do sometimes). What, did you have your coat on while you typed?

I will try calling you at the cafe but if I don't get you and you don't get the messages I left at your office, YES, dawgs from Ernie's would be good. As the schizophrenic buddhist said, make me two with everything, lmaaao. And a BIG BIG order of rings. And Becca wants a hot dog and chili. Do you think chili? Get a big serving and if she doesn't eat it, we'll fridge it.

And could you pleeeeeeease get me a booster at the cafe? Your hands are gonna be full, I realize, but you did ask...

I love love love you sweetie... it's all right if you're humorless.... I know you're an asshole, lmaaao. Seriously, I know you probably didn't really want to drive down in there, but we're having a fun girls' morning here (and you BETTER come right home for yunch). Becca is painting flowers on the windows so the birds don't fly into them.

Call when you're back at your office and about to leave for home. I'll try you at the cafe in case you don't get this... or you can save me the trouble and email me back...

Love love love love love you but I already said that... have a relaxing morning grading those papers! xoxoxoxoxo me

p.s. Did you see the district web page? "Do to weather conditions there will be no school today" !!!!! I sent an email telling them to fix it NOW, because after all, we should know how to spell, since we're a SKOOL lmaaao. Anyway I checked it a little bit ago and they changed it to "due." I wonder how many people saw it and emailed them. Christy said when she checked it it was already changed.


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The Exam

From: brianpressley14
To: ledoux67
Date: 3/7/07 9:41:12 AM Eastern Standard Time
Subject: The exam...

....went fine. Got some great answers on the essay question: "Paul was the dreamy one because of his soft tender voice and smoochy lips and sleepy eyes" haha.

I'm in my orifice for a few secs and am gonna hike on down the boulevard to Ragged Edge, For To Drink Coffee And Grade My Exams. Then I am going downtown. To look for a job. Then I'm going to hang out in front of the drug store.

I TRIED calling you and got busy busy busy.

Anyway the plan is: grade the exams (should take me up to lunch), then go back to campus, stick the graded exams in the envelope outside my office door so that Interested Parties may pick them up before spring break, then ride back up the mountain to spend the afternoon with my girls.

And then when I'm done with them I'll come home and see you and Becca, hahaha.

DID YOU WANT ME TO GET ANYTHING DOWN HERE FOR LUNCH OR ARE YOU OK??? Because I can pick up dawgs and stuff at Ernie's if you want. Let me know. I'll have my laptop with me at the cafe or you could probably call me there, why not?

Later sweetie! Hope you're enjoying the snow... sorry I was so humorless about your humor this morning, but I'll get you good later... xoxoxoxo bri


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Re3 Happy Sunday Woman

From: christyswims@yahoo.com
To: ledoux67@aol.com
Date: 3/7/07 8:42:20 AM Eastern Standard Time
Subject: Re: Happy Sunday woman!!!

Well you remember what happened with me in high school (or do you?) senior year, I very seriously considered ROTC, just felt lost not being with Brian, felt lost about everything you were going through, lost about it being my senior year, lost lost lost, and of course as Daddy said that made me ripe pickings for the recruiters, he sat me down and told me "Honey don't do it. I'm all for serving my country but there are other ways you can do that. If you feel lost don't sign anything." Which I think you agree is the problem, it's not the kids who just want to serve their country and have nothing else holding them down, it's the kids who are looking for any direction or just financial help, some sort of stability, they really get preyed on, a lot of them.

And it's so wrong what they're doing now, look at Stevie, he and Beth went and did ROTC and did their time and now they're both on pins and needles constantly thinking one or both of them might get CALLED BACK UP twenty years after they supposedly fulfilled their obligation.

I don't agree that it's not about the war, it is mainly about the army and the way they do things as a matter of course and always have, but also it's about THIS war and THIS president and the way THEY are running things. This after how in Vietnam both W and our sneering weasel vp never even SERVED in combat but they have no trouble sending OTHER peoples' kids (and parents!!!!) over to do their dirty work.

(Take a breath, lol)

Too funny about Brian's class!

Snow= it didn't do much of anything up here, 3-5 inches at the most, most of the schools are open, I was in here at 5 am same as ever.

I just have a short break and now I'm going back out to the front desk.

My minutes recharge on Friday so I can call then!

Later! xoxoxoxox love you christy

P.S. I clicked on the district home page but they'd already fixed it, some english teacher (or GUIDANCE COUNSELOR, lol) probably called and gave them grief!


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Re2 Happy Sunday Woman

From: ledoux67@aol.com
To: christyswims@yahoo.com
Date: 3/7/07 7:03:36 AM EST
Subject: Re: Happy Sunday woman!!!

Christy... check out the district home page with the crawl announcing our SNOW DAY TODAY!!!!!

I quote: "Do to weather conditions, there will be no school today."

I shot an email to the webmaster. PLEASE CHANGE THIS BEFORE TO MANY PEOPLE READ IT, lmaaao.

But in other words NO SCHOOOOL TOOOODAAAAAYYYYYYY!!!! Becca is still in bed... and I, instead of running around like mad getting me and her ready to go down the mou'en, am enjoying a second cup of Tim Horton's. And Brian is going in... "what, and miss my Beatles class?" The midterm is today. Midterm. An EXAM in a class about the Beatles. I was going "What, are you going to ask them what Ringo's pet peeves are?" lmaaaao. And of course he got all high and mighty with me ("You have NO IDEA, do you?") but that just made me rag him more: "Discuss why Paul was the dreamy one" "Match the Beatle to the Monkee that was copying him." lmaaaao. I got him good and pissed off and then thought "Uh-oh... I'd better calm him down before he gets in the car; he's liable to road rage himself into the creek." So I made him coffee and told him I was sorry I made fun of his "little class" lmaaao. He's out cleaning off the Jetta. And I'm in here watching him, lmaao.

So what did it do up there? I'm too lazy to click on centre daily or weather.com, and I am NOT turning on the tube.

That thing about the grandma at the laundromat is terrible, Christy. Of course they wouldn't let her out... she might have been having those babies just to get a furlough.

You know me, Ms. Ann-ti Coulter... I never could see how anyone could support the war, but something like this doesn't seem like it's about the war, but about the army and about the choices people make. You're in for a dime, you're in for a dollar when you enlist. And I can't tell kids DON'T ENLIST! YOU'LL BE SORRRRRRYYYYYYY! but I always explain that when you go in, you are IN. And with them just extending kids' (KIDS) tours of duty whenever they feel like it (can you say BREACH OF CONTRACT??), it looks like once you're in, you stay in whether you like it or not.

I tell kids that they need to think about what that means. ANd I have told a couple kids "do you know what extended tour of duty means?" And they sort of go "Yeah" like they know what the words mean but they don't really get what it MEANS and what it will entail. They just don't have the life experience. It all comes down to them "serving their country." As if the only way to serve your country is to put your life energy into THAT.

I tell them "Getting out of high school is like getting your first real burst of freedom. The Army is like going back into high school, but worse." I tell them all sorts of things, but you can tell, there are three kinds of kids: the kind who are kind of toying with it but who aren't really going to do it (those you can kind of talk out of it because really it wasn't an option for them to begin with) and then the kind who have their mind made up, and no horror story is going to sway them. "I know. I can handle it." And then, good God, the ones who are in the middle, just looking to be talked into or out of it.

~BRB~~

Back. Brian is on his way down the mou'en, cup o coffee in hand. He left me the hybrid. I wish I had the jeep. I'm HOPING that enough will come down that Becca and me can go shushin' later.

Anyway... where was I?

I just wonder what that mom is thinking now, with three kids she never sees and won't BE WITH for another 18 months. She's missed their whole little lives. And that grandma... GOd bless them, Christy... God bless all those people.

I'm glad I never enlisted... me or Brian. Brian, Mr. Pacifist, and me, Ms. Chicken, lmaaao. THere were no wars back then, though. Back then when we were that age, you could make the army a career and know that you probably wouldn't ever get shot at or stuck in combat. Brian probably could've been a band director or something. He would have been leader of that "rock band" that always came to school that we all made fun of.

I just always feel like those recruitment people are slippery, manipulative. I always want to give an OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS after one of their talks.

Now Becca is up and she wants FRENCH TOAST!!! Fat chance missy, lmaaaao.... no... I'll make it for her. For us.

Hope you have a good one woman... later! xoxoxoxo me


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Re Happy Sunday Woman

From: christyswims@yahoo.com
To: Ledoux67@aol.com
Date: 3/4/07 5:15:40 PM Eastern Standard Time
Subject: Re: Happy Sunday woman!!!

Hi Margo, I tried calling and got voice mail at both numbers (I didn't try your # at the school, lol), you guys must be out and about.

It's quiet here too right now, Maggie is taking a nap, we're both taking a breath, I'm having a glass of milk and a couple outmeal scotchies that Marty baked Friday. You know how the saying goes that some people can cook and some can bake but not many can do both? Well, Marty is a fantastic cook, lol. THe cookies TASTE good but some of them are crispy, some of them are chewy, and that's just the few that are whole, most of them are so crumbly that you might as well put them in a bowl and pour milk over them. Which Marty actually did, he said it was really good.

He said they probably turned out that way because he made them bigger than the package said and when he took them out to cool, they weren't all the way done in the middles so he put them back in. So next time he says he'll follow

~later!!

the recipe lol

I got WAY sidetracked, I started this about 3:30 when Maggie actually was taking her nap, well then she got up and was ramming around and she asked what's for supper and we realized that we didn't have anything here to make, so Marty phoned in a pizza and he and Maggie just drove to pick it up.

So I have ten uninterrupted minutes to finish this and my milk is warm, lol.

I'm rereading what you wrote, I lost track.

So Brian's hammering the bass? What's gonna happen if he gets the gig full time?? You're right, that IS dangerous music, it led me to sleeping with Tom and getting pregnant with Maura, lol. And that was just from the RECORDS, I hate to think if I'd been playing an instrument.

Speaking of Maura and in answer to your question, Maura said she is leaving on Thursday this week, driving believe it or not, she said she hates flying and couldn't stand being without her car. I don't think she's going to do it all in a day, I hate the idea of her being out on the road alone but you know her. "I need my car, I like to stop, I hate the hassle at the airport." Who can blame her?

Anyway she will be coming back north a week from next sunday (or two weeks from TODAY, lol).

I have to tell you about the woman we saw at the laundromat yesterday, we took our comforter in to dry it because last time we did it in our drier it took forever, at the mat it takes just 45 minutes. A woman about our age, very overweight, looked very tired and had three little ones, girl about 5, boys around 4 and 18 months. I know how old the little boy is because I heard her say. Anyway she was doing her best keeping these kids in line, they were helping her with the laundry but of course acting like little kids act and she was sort of short and impatient with them, and of course Maggie went right to the little boy and he was following her around, Marty said "Get used to THAT," lol. But I noticed that the kids were calling her both "mom" and "Grandma" so of course I had to ASK... and she said "No, I'm "grandma," "mom" is in Iraq, where our wonderful president just informed her that her tour of duty is being extended another 18 months."

She said that her daughter joined the military shortly after the second one was born, at which time her (partner? husband? father of the babies anyway) "decided he didn't want to be a father anymore and vanished. He came back for one night, and then the little one came along." And three weeks after the littlest was born, she was called over to Iraq.

So the mom's in Iraq and grandma is stuck with the babies, the smallest one "doesn't remember her mom," the middle one "barely remembers her" and the girl 'remembers her a little."

I felt so bad for her, felt guilty for standing there watching her wrassle with those three before we talked and thinking "God, maam, you're being a little SHARP with those kids." Well I guess I found out, huh.

Marty said "I thought that there were regulations that if you were the sole supporter of children you couldn't be in the army" but I'm pretty sure that was just when they had a draft, you were exempt from the draft if you were the sole supporter. I guess once you've enlisted that's that.

They're back with pizza now and I barely got up on my soapbox, lol.

My minutes will be recharged on Friday so till then let's email, or call on the landline, ok?? Marty says HI and Maggie says HI! and PIZZA!!

Later tater! xoxoxoxoxoxo love you christy


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Happy Sunday woman

From: ledoux67@aol.com
To: christyswims@yahoo.com
Date: 3/4/07 7:45:47 AM EST
Subject: Happy Sunday woman!!!

Hi there woman! It's 7 am Sunday and I'm enjoying the blissful peaceful cozy cool quiet here... sitting here in the solarium, which of course is on the west side of the house, but still there are beautiful beams of sunlight filtering through the mist in the pines... deep green with these yellow shafts cutting down through... and I have the windows opened a crack so I can hear birds (Mittens has been licking her chops, lmaaao)... I am nursing a cup o coffee... some french roast from Ginny's. I ALMOST got in the car and went for a little cruise but decided against it and I'm glad I did. I needed just some quiet time alone where I was going nowhere, doing nothing, hearing nothing, just relaxing and AHHHHHHHH being.

Rita is down in Florida with the Orioles. She said if one more person offers to do something for her she's gonna slap them into the gulf, lmaaao. I said "Well, honey, you ARE three months pregnant." "But this is my LAST CHANCE TO BE A BALLGIRL!!!" She mentioned something about Maura coming down to see her for a week... any idea when that's gonna happen? Meanwhile Tony's team is still alive... last night his girls pulled out a triple-OT win in the conference semis... upset the second seed, so they play this afternoon. Conference champion gets an automatic NCAA D3 bid; on the one hand I'm excited for him, but on the other hand, as soon as they're done, his season is over and he was going to take a couple weeks off and fly down there and join his wife. So don't tell anyone but I hope they get blown out big time, lmaaao.

Brian is up. Thus endeth the reverie, lmaaao. No, he is being good (QUIET)... just sitting here on the couch next to me, sipping a cuppo coffee, petting the cat. How he loves to stroke the pussy, lmaaao.

He played a gig on Thursday night at a party at the college. THis is great Christy. He mentioned last weekend that a couple kids in his Beatles class had a band and they needed a fill-in bassist because their regular bassist broke his wrist rock climbing, and they knew he was a good jazz guitarist, and could he do it? Brian doesn't even OWN a bass but of course he could... he borrowed this guy's bass. Anyway... I figured it was some JAZZ gig, so imagine BEcca's and my surprise Tuesday night when we come home and low and behold, there are two strange cars parked in the drive and this hardcore thrash punk blaring from the garage, where Brian and these three kids are rehearsing!!! Brian on bass, this tall skinny kid with this jet black hair playing guitar that sounded like an SST landing and two girls: a very pretty lead singer, Kaitlyn, who reminded me of Liz a little... she had that whole warbling punk scream down. The best one though was Rae, this chicky who was playing drums who looked like Maura in her purple hair period. She was POUNDING... Becca loved her. "She's a better drummer than a boy!" So funny because the music was so loud and raucous and angry and passionate and dangerous sounding, and these kids were so sweet and quiet and funny.

Anyway they played at some frat party very very very late on Thursday night, and he must not of gotten laid, lmaaao, because he was home reeking of smoke at about 2 am. He said it was a blast, exhilarating. I have to admit that it was really exhilarating hearing it. That music did not sound SAFE and I liked it. Friday he took a trip to York in the afternoon and bought a handful of discs that those kids recommended to him, so he was blasting that all day yesterday. Maybe that's why I was enjoying the quiet so much.

Anyway they liked him so much that he might be filling in for them again this Friday when they play another gig on campus. Maybe I'll take Becca to see that one... she was really upset that she couldn't go on Thursday. A couple "I hate yous" thrown out, and then a big scene when Daddy left... but all was forgiven Friday.

Anyway... hope you have a nice Sunday. Tell Marty hi and give little Maggie Kay a kiss for me... write back when you can ok??? xoxoxoxoxoxo me


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