The Council of the Sisterhood, sits with their high tea and macarons.
“She just needs to train him!”
“What? What do you mean train him?”
“Like a dog! A boyfriend is like a dog!”
“I’ve never had a dog. I don’t know how to train them.”
“You’ve never had a dog?”
“Well, not for the long term. I mean, we helped to puppy sit a family friend’s dog once. But that was for, like, two weeks? I’ve never had a dog long term.”
“Okay, well, they’re nothing like cats. So don’t bother expecting to have him around like a cat. You need to train them like a dog. Have you seen Dog Whisperer? It’s kind of like that.”
“No I haven’t see the Dog Whisperer, should I start watching it to learn? Should I adopt a dog to see how I go? I don’t really know what to do right now.”
“If you don’t know how train a dog, trust me, you’ll never know how to train a boyfriend. It’s almost exactly the same.”
(Chuckles, shakes head) — “That’s just her opinion, don’t listen to her.”
“I wasn’t going to…” (More laughing)
…
Umm… is this really how girls talk about guys?
No, silly, this is fiction genre. It’s an exaggeration. They were living their own 20-something-year-old’s Sex and the City vibes at the Melbourne High Tea.
Oh… gotcha, okay, okay… (Weird facial expression, “Holy heck these women are CRAAAAZY!”)
I think, the cognitive framing was — she needs to be more assertive. At least, that’s what the psychologist once said. “Be more assertive!”
And…? Is she being more assertive these days?
I don’t know, you tell me. What did you see today?
Today… I saw a woman who simply said, “No.” without any further explanations. I was impressed.
So I guess she’s more assertive these days.
IS she though? Because then she walked up to talk that person face to face, instead of the first chance she had to say it.
Her throat was hurting. It hurt to say more than “No” in that moment. Also her reasons were irrelevant to other people listening in. No meant no — it’s not happening.
Why is it not happening?
Because they already scheduled those shifts, I was supposed to finish work at 12:30 pm, you’re asking me to extend until 5:30 pm!? — NO —
(Laughing) Everyone else thought this was about something else up to this point.
(Chuckling) There’s no metaphors. I didn’t want to work until 5:30 pm today.
…
Thought she said she needed to sleep, why is she still writing and writing?
Writing is not that taxing on a body that is fighting an infection. Or at least, it’s a good sign the bacteria or virus or whatever it is hasn’t actually reached… my brain?!
What if it has and it’s driving you into a manic writing state?
It’s not driving me into a manic writing state. I took a nap. It’s still day time as I’m writing this. My body doesn’t want to literally sleep for 8 hours right now. Maybe I’ll take another nap, but it’s not night time sleep mode just yet.
Oh, you took a nap?
Yes.
I didn’t know you took a nap.
Well, I did.
How was it?
Good… I was listening to Lo-Fi Sundays on Apple music. And then, I suddenly woke up from this song, “Sonidos del Barrio” by Ghostnaut & Lunath.
Do you know who they are?
No. I have no idea.
What did you like about the song?
I don’t know. I woke up thinking, why am I even awake? I thought I would need to nap longer. But it’s a good vibe… I don’t know how else to describe it. I don’t even usually pick this kind of music, not with intention, let alone knowing how to search for such a title in a foreign language.
(Smiling)
What?!
Nothing.
Okay…?
Okay. (Smiles)
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