Tuesday, September 27, 2011

I should be in charge of everyone's relationships

Greg Thompson has a girlfriend. This girlfriend of his is my best friend. Over the past few months (6 months to be exact- it's apparently their anniversary today. Incidentally, six months is the first time it is all right in a relationship to celebrate an anniversary. People who get worked up over "OH it's our ten week-iversary!" make me want to punch brick walls.) whoa that parenthesis digression got out of hand. Starting over. Over the past few months the three of us have been disagreeing over the best couple name for the two of them (ignoring the fact that I kind of despise couple names because I have no soul and there's a cheese sandwich where my heart should be). The two of them seem to think Greg + Emily = Gremily. GREMILY. Like, what? Here. Here is what the world thinks of when they hear "gremily."That is a terrifying creature who feasts on the dreams of innocents and physically lacks the ability to love. It had every opportunity to do good but chooses instead to wreak havoc on picnics and moves plastic bottles from the recycling bin to the trash. Now I ask you: is this what you want your relationship associated with? I think not.

My alternative is Emily + Greg = EGG. Let me paint you this picture: it's a sunny morning, you're walking across the field holding hands with a hot farm boy, and the two of you collect the morning eggs in hand-woven baskets while kittens play with your shoelaces. That is completely lovely.
So instead of an internal image of a horrifying creature, you get this:
It's like that chick on the right is whispering, "I know we just hatched, but I love you more than anything."
So while Greg and Emily may claim "Oh, we're the couple, we should decide what our couple name is and your opinion is useless to us because we have superhuman couple powers and we're secretly Sean Penn and the woman who invented the windshield wiper Mary Anderson and you can't touch this duh-nuh-nuh-nuh" I believe I have presented my argument clearly and effectively and COME ON I'm totally right about this.

Also, the google image search for "hatched chicks" is completely and fantastically adorable.


Sunday, September 25, 2011

I wasn't kidding

So I have this friend. And I also have this blog. (Well, not THIS one, but another one.) That's pretty much all the context you need for this story.
I used to write blog posts that involved this friend all the time, but since I no longer live in the same country as him, I now do not write about him with the consistency I used to. And this displeases him. Even when i was writing about him once a week, I would still get the question of "When's your next blog post about me?" Just yesterday I got that question again, through my-friend-his-girlfriend, and decided to do something about it. Because it wouldn't be fair to all three people who read my other blog if, I decided to create a blog based entirely around Greg Thompson and his shenanigans because that is a good and normal thing to do.

At the moment, Greg Thompson recently moved from London to his small hometown and is looking for a flat. He also just graduated from University for what seems like the third time (British graduations confuse me) and posted hilarious pictures from it. English guys look weird in graduation caps. True story.

Also, practically all the information I know about him now comes from my-friend-his-girlfriend. Those kids direct message each other on Twitter like rabbits. Yeah, that analogy totally works.