If her dress were orange and had flowers and butterflies on it, maybe people would say River looked like me.
Because I own a boatload of dresses and never wear them, I wore this really summery sundress. With my combat boots. And I’m small. The first thing my friends said when I got in the car? “People are going to think you dressed up as River!”
Sure enough: two people took pictures with me in my “costume.” I win.
A woman who came in the same group as me, but who I just met tonight, said that I carry myself like River too. A normal interpretation of this statement would be that I present as a goddamn lunatic, but I prefer to think it means I kick ass.
-->Feed me text
July 12, 2009 at 3:06 am
Or maybe she meant you carry yourself like a dancer? Totally complimentary
July 12, 2009 at 5:16 am
I love River! So now I love you even more
July 12, 2009 at 10:30 am
Operation Woo Lenore: Success!!!
You know, the dancer interpretation hadn’t even occurred to me, but I love it. I loved dance as a child, despite being god-awful at it — I was the nine-year-old who got left back in dance. Which I discovered the following year at the dance school’s end-of-the-ear recital, when I saw all the kids I’d been in class with the year before and one of them asked me why I hadn’t moved up to level two with them. I said, “There’s a level two?”
But lately, I’ve started going to the gym for various reasons, which has made me strong, which I love, and which is peculiar for my sense of self because I have such a strong identity as a weak person. And I do these gym classes to cheesy ’80s music and Pink, where you’re doing all these steps that are precisely timed to the music, and it’s like being back in dance classes, except suddenly I don’t suck anymore. I am so happy.
July 13, 2009 at 4:16 pm
I didn’t know who River was but she looks awesome–if you seem like her you must kick serious ass.:)
July 14, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Please tell me you watched the musical commentary track on Dr. Horrible – it was pretty much as awesome as the actual sing-along blog.
July 14, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Sadako: I should clarify that my boots are IN NO WAY as amazing as River’s in that picture. I wish!!!
Jess: No! Oh my god, something to look forward to. I feel a party coming on.
July 14, 2009 at 11:34 pm
You know Firefly? You love Firefly? Okay, you’ve officially launched a thousand points on the coolness factor. I wish I could have seen you in those combat boots and sundress
July 15, 2009 at 10:09 pm
Yeah, Joss had me at “Space Western.”
July 16, 2009 at 1:25 pm
That’s awesome! Now you just need to make sure and avoid anime advertising. I can’t believe I missed out on that last year.