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An e-mail story

April 3, 2005 By pia

A few people have told me that they have sent me e-mails and that I haven’t responded.

Savannah Falls (my laptop) and I have been on the road, and we’ve been sick, and we haven’t received all of our e-mails.

We’re not even speaking to the desktop; won’t mention her name as she refuses to do anything at all but look very pretty with her 20 gauge steel pavilion, sleek but not young black LCD monitor and all the rest.

Savannah Falls wants to know what good is it to be pretty if you can’t do anything? Can’t really answer that can I?

So Savannah Falls crashes sometimes, other times walks into doors (oh no that’s me) and is a general wonderful laptop with a few quirks.

Bear with us as we transition back to our form of normal living.

We’re trying to find every comment we ever missed and answer them–including the ones on BE–but we might leave out a few good friends on the grounds–well we don’t have good grounds so we’ll get to them all.

We’re going to be a bit tied up for the next several weeks but Savannah Falls and I have vowed, since we did our taxes early, and all, to keep on plugging.

Savannah Falls would like to say that she’s very tired, and tired of being taken on airplanes–though she gets treated very well–in her Swiss Army laptop backpack, she no longer likes long airplane rides. She was a bit disappointed when her guardian was talking to a man in Delta’s Crown Lounge, and he got a phone call:
“Beyonce and Jessica Simpson haven’t signed their contracts yet. Have them….”

She wanted her guardian to flirt, but she (me) was busy trying not to cough, and scare a room filled with people with memories of last years non-SARS epidemic.

Savannah Falls knows how her guardian likes to make her ashamed and say things like “oh sorry, was I coughing? Was just diagnosed with SARS and….”

That was last year and I never actually said it though thought it because I had actually bought a ticket (coach) didn’t upgrade it, went through all the water and juice I brought with me in half an hour and the cabin attendants told me that I was drinking too much water.

But I didn’t say anything because I know how touchy Savannah Falls can be. These days it’s not really prudent to say anything not nice in an airplane or airport; so I try to be as nice as possible, and Savannah Falls tries to bear with me.

We’re both obsessive about e-mail and answer all mail we get immediately. So if we don’t answer it, we haven’t gotten it.

We’re just a little beyond with comments due to many circumstances beyond our control. But Savannah Falls gets even grouchier than normal if she doesn’t get any, so I don’t know how to please her.

Savannah Falls and I don’t agree on much these days but we do agree on that. And I really hate calling her by her full name but she insists. So….

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Comments

  1. mulligan says

    April 3, 2005 at 11:09 pm

    Sounds like Savannah Falls is a bit tempermental. I have to agree with her, though, what’s the use of the desktop that shall not be named if all she does is sit there and look pretty. I hope Savannah Falls doesn’t have to go on anymore airplanes for awhile.

  2. Donna Grayson says

    April 4, 2005 at 11:33 am

    The way you told that story was really cute. You have a real talent for writing. I enjoyed your story.

  3. alice says

    April 4, 2005 at 12:43 pm

    Savannah Falls sounds a bit on the hmpth-y side. LOL. I haven’t been on a plane in a long time. However, your story reminds me of flight attendents and their, um, customer service (or lack thereof). My goodness, if you were thirsty, you have every right to drink water to your heart’s content!!! -=)

  4. Opus says

    April 4, 2005 at 9:51 pm

    I second Donna, you have a lovely way of writing.

    Oh and re question, I’m a July 1st Cancerian.

  5. Eric says

    April 5, 2005 at 6:22 am

    Seriously though, you named your laptop?

  6. Pia says

    April 5, 2005 at 6:30 am

    My first computer was named Arial Black. She was a good computer.

    Didn’t name the second computer. She has many issues.

    I decided that my laptop needed some personal attention as she’s over three years old and tempermental.

    So I named her a bit late, but she’s been happy ever since.

    If it takes naming her to get her to work I’ll do that.

    It’s not as if we have meaningful conversations, or converse at all, really.

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Then I hated everything about the suburbs. Yet somehow I lived in a few great Long Island Sound towns after high school.

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