The Best Accessories

I think someone from my past walked past my apartment as I was approaching my building in true stalker style. Probably all in my head....I had just returned from a screening of "Brick" so my thoughts were disoriented.

Movie was "Cruel Intensions" if it was a cheap indie film noir. I liked it.

This morning, put on my pink plastic necklace to best accessorize my black skirt with the 50s silhouette.

Sax: You look like you're seven going to a birthday party.

I still wanted to rock the pinkness but he convinced me to switch it out for my gold charms necklace instead.

Sax: now you look like an adult.

Its funny how accessories do that. How just a necklace or a pair of earrings can make you look hot, or like a seven year old or like some ghetto princess from brooklyn.

Sax bought me a brown necklace in Berkeley that makes me look like Tituba from The Crucible.

At a event thrown by my last job:

Client: Oh [yummicoco] look at you.... and your pearls!

She knew that they were fake and that I probably paid 2 dollars for them on 14th street and 6th ave. So fucking what?! I still looked cute and it covered my hickie most expertly.

So tonight, I am going to check out a play featuring all these old ladybats being bad. One of the old bats was in Facts of Life another one was in Moonstruck. Free tickets from their PR team! Nice. I tried to ask for a free dinner at a new hot spot from another PR team but got dissed.

I don't think that I pitched it right.

Prego!

Hi,

-Saw V for Vendetta

-Went to Flux Box in Long Island City

-Ate delicious vegan at Gobo last Thursday and at some place in Chinatown- I think I might be vegetarian.

-My computer stand broke in half.

-Sax loves to teach the kids "Dirty Grrlz". He tried to teach it to one of his students yesterday while her New Zealand dad passed out on out couch.

-Was riveted by Munich but cut it short to watch Sopranos. Why didn't he just die?

-Sax friend Issac came over just in time to watch Big Love and talk polygamy.

Yummi: Which brings us to the reason why we invited you here...

He looked visible uncomfortable. I am not the best at comedic delivery.

See ya at the Bust party!

Yo Baby! Yo Baby! Yo Baby Yo!

I love my new job! So chill and kind of corporate and stable....

Co-worker at 4:30pm this past Friday: [yummicoco], go home!

In Yummi's head: "whoa, I CAN go HOME now?! It's 4:30?! Fuck! I CAN go home! I'M GOING HOME!!!"

Didn't go home... Got my eyebrows threaded and walked the streets before meeting cousin at Happy Hour.Then we headed over to see a play called "Well" which was actually pretty good. Then met up with Aeki and Mindy Raf at 205 Christie.

I left early for a 6am shoot in the morning... sounds cooler than it really was... Told a science journalist in the green room that I thought that my cat Stella was bi-polar.

Science Journalist: Well, our pets normally feed off the energy of their owners...

Went to Sax's Jewish aunt's St. Patrick's Day Dinner the night AFTER St. Patrick's Day for corned beef and cabbage. Oh irony! Talked about her arthritis, back pain, her loneliess and her deceitful soon to be ex-husband. Played sad Pasty Cline songs in the car as she drove us back to Brooklyn....

Patsy Cline: "Crazy...I'm crazy for feeling so lone..leee..eeee..."

Wired on his aunt's coffee, we stayed up talking.

Sax: This is nice. The last time we stayed up all night was in Philly but we weren't talking.

Sax is getting his teaching certification! He is having fun in his supervised teaching classes in Crown Heights- teaching the kids how to play hip hop beats on woodwinds and brass. While teaching a little girl "Stop, Drop.." by DMX on the piano, the 12 year old girl licked her finger and then wiped the salvia on Sax's face while he was showing her the chords. He ignored it and kept teaching her.

Yummicoco: I do that to you all the time

Sax: Yeah only Black girls so that.

Yummicoco: How many Black girls you know?

Sax: Just you and the girl.

Ump!

Oh Promise Not to Cry Anymore!

So its countdown, Dear Reader to the next job! I love the last days at a job. So much expectation and so much relief all at once... And I am not going to be no one's bitch this time around sucka!

Will I like this new job? Or do I hate every job because I am a malcontent like Sax says I am.

I am never satisfied.

My replacement was hired yesterday and the only thing I know about him is that he can stink up a bathroom- which I discovered much to my dismay 15 minutes later while he was well into his final interview with my boss. Hope he washed his hands...

I KNOW WHAT YOU LOVE ME, YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU LIKE:

Interview with my new boss:

So what do you love most about publicity?

I HAVE TOLD EVERYONE THIS STORY AT LEAST TWO OR THREE TIMES...Its pretty lame and I am glad that everyone still talks to me.

Yummicoco: Well... (scanning the room, spotting some green plastic thing with paper clips shooting out of it on his desk)

Wait, what is that? a turtle?

New boss: I think its a hedgehog

Yummicoco: Well, I love taking something like that hedgehog or turtle and creating mythology...

:-p

I just ripped our bike messenger service a new one over the phone in order to avoid an extra charge for our client, yet at Citibank, I let a worker get out of helping me rectify something with my online account. She advised me to call their 1-800 number instead. I ate her bullshit happily and proceeded to B. Dog's for tomato soup and half tuna.

Its Friday and I know how to pick my battles.