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Thursday, July 31, 2008
How Does Ovechkin Wear His Skates
(theft and more theft)
square table in the bar that is glued to the window there are seven objects. In the center are the common elements: an ashtray still clean and a rectangular box containing packets of sugar and sweetener. On the left, a pair of Ray Ban tortoiseshell-rimmed, eye drops and a cell of minimum dimensions of a brand that does not exist here. On the right, at the opposite end, a common enough crushed Marlboro and a Bic lighter, black, the little ones. Caro jurisdictions and Mili are somehow defined, despite having been best friends at one time either would dare to put something of yours in the space implicitly corresponds to the other.
Mill, the owner of the glasses, the droplets and the cell phone, just sitting, while Caro has been waiting for more than ten minutes.
_Que're cute, but do not you have cold? _In Fact, Mili is wearing a white muscle and a very fine silver cardigan shows a collarbone and sternum Caro did not remember so evident a few years ago.
_A little. Is that I just last week and really that I have almost no mid-season.
_Claro. What, there? _Pregunta Caro scared, because he knows the answer.
_Y, look, it's all crazy. What do I know, is another world. It is another way of life, the number of people, things there are to do, and you want them all ... well, you can imagine. Caro
imagined. How would rise early, work during the day into something creative, sautéed zucchini fritolim lunch and then visit rooms, shows, cafes, openings. Could do, really. His city was not so ugly after all. But things have changed. Without knowing why, do not get up before eleven. What remains of the morning is to clean the house and eat, then to her office job and then back to the house, watching TV, grab a book and finally sleep.
Mili is talking about something that Caro did not listen, but to pay attention again and is on something else.
_Pero Tell me about you, what do you do? Are you still in the editorial?
_Yes. _Contesta Caro. In fact, it does not sound so bad. "I work in a publishing house, working in an editorial." He likes to say. How good it would actually work as an editor of novels historical or science fiction. In reality, however, your job is to correct score to articles on economic theory to a monthly magazine that nobody buys for years.
_ And what, you like?
_Yes, yes, quite.
_ What happened to the TV show told me by mail?
What boludes, by god. Caro much regret having mentioned it in an email from a year ago. He shrugs his shoulders.
_No, no, not left at the end. But better on the one hand, because was all day, would be very tiring ...
_Decímelo to me, who works like crazy. _The Waiter brings them their coffee. Caro immediately puts him two packets of sugar, stir and start to take it. Mili does not touch him, and only drink a sip bitter when cold. Keep talking. _When I called for the interview I was excited, because obviously, is the communications department of Cover Girl, I know, I never thought I would take me, especially with the Argentine accent, which conceals more than it shows. To make matters worse, I was told that since he had never had someone under thirty, so I imagine, is a lot of responsibility ...
_Claro.
_Che, what about your boyfriend? Are you still with him? _Mili Uncovers the dropper, throws his head back and put one drop in each eye. Contact _Lentes not get used. _Dice Meantime.
_No. Cut a few months ago.
Mili has moist eyes after the drops, but the mascara is not running. Cover Girl. _No
I can not believe you. I was sure you were going to marry that guy, such a goodie that was, "Manuel? _Daniel
.
Both laugh.
_Que ugly name. _Dice Mili, and Caro stop laughing. _The
who married Joseph and the Vale. Mili
opens her eyes and laugh again.
_ I can not believe it! Poor Vale, if you knew ... _The
truth. _Ambas Laugh then, thinking the same thing. What friends are again at that moment another laugh. But the moment passes when Millie takes a picture from inside your wallet.
_Mi novio._Le says. Mili and a tall, cute t-shirt with the Washing Machine are sitting on a black couch and each has a beer in hand.
_ What's your name?
_Tobías._A Caro seems a terrible name, much worse than Daniel, but says nothing. Instead, he mutters.
_Hubo a time when I really thought you were going to marry Sam. Mili
laughs out loud, and Caro bothered him a little rest as much importance to the issue. But then remember that Mill always been so. _
But please! Did not last even three months. I actually always said "you have to get back to you Caro, because it is the only woman to hold you." And I still think of it, so I that you'll find out if you singles. _No
not think so. _
But c'mon! Do not be silly, perhaps the love of your life as you were saying when they were together.
_Bueno but it was a thousand years. He left me and went, came back, he started dating you ... give me a lot of things to be with him now. _In
were never really sweethearts, I'm honest. I never really wanted, and if I was with him that time was because ... I do not know, will not be alone. It is good to be alone, makes me very badly. _de
anyway, would not even know how to locate it. "You will communicate with him? _To
anything. I sent an email once from there and told me that it hurt to write and that would change his mind. I felt half guilty, you change your mind about me, but hey, I'm in another, I can not take care of everyone.
course not. Mili was not going to take care of everyone.
_Creo entiendo._Mentira you number one, because not even remotely understood. Mili looks out. _When
this city I remember I always do with sadness. So much garbage, so long perdido.Y when I come, I have the feeling that nobody is happy for me, so I go However, it exceeds this.
_Yo vos._Mentira yes I'm happy for two. Mili smiles, as if to say "thank you, and if not I do not care."
_Vos'd have to go from here. That ought to do. Listen, a young graduate in communication, are in the same job since we studied, it can be. It's good to change, leaving behind everything bad, whatever. Would suit you.
_Bueno, yes, it's easy to say but ...
_ you thought it was easy for me to go, be alone somewhere else? For nothing. I did everything to I worked as a waitress, but I knew that anything was better than being here and look at me now. I tell you it's worth trying. Do one thing. My boyfriend is deputy director of a journal of literary criticism and film, there. I give the mail to send him your resume. I know, one of those ...
Caro gets excited, he smiles and his eyes shine.
_Dale, dale.
_Ahora diculpame but I have to go, I have a dentist.
_ Dentist?
_Yes, there is very expensive. So I want to make me all acá._Dice while placing the Ray Ban overhead. Smile. His mouth does not seem to need any settlement.
_ Can I have the mail ...?
_Te call and give it to you over the phone, okay? _Ya Rose from his chair.
_Bueno. Mili
kisses on the cheek and leaves local honking their tacos. Take a taxi at the door and said one direction. Caro always gave a little sad, but the truth is that nothing ventured nothing gained, and she can go through life not solve everything to others. Enough already have one with their own problems.
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