Whatcha doing?

About to watch “Daredevil”
You headed to work?

Yeah. I’ll probably be there
Till about eight.
Want to meet for dinner?

Where?

MaBella’s

Italian? You know it.
How dressy should I be?
I mean, you’re wearing a suit and tie

Video conference with
Some people in Japan –
It will be Monday there —
Dress up a little, if you want.
That gives me almost seven hours of
Anticipation

I love you –
Thank you

I love you, too
“Thank you” for what?

That you still want to
Take me out to dinner
That you still want to see me
Dressed up
That you’ll be thinking about me
While you should be concentrating
On your video conference

Well, dear
This house has several mirrors –
Sometime today
Stop and look at yourself
And tell me why
I shouldn’t be thanking you
Every minute of my life

What’s wrong?

I don’t know

Tell me…
What you’re feeling

It’s one of those mornings where I try to workout and that doesn’t feel right and I try go through my painting ideas and none of them seem good and the cat is acting all distant and my mom called and wants me to help her sew and I hate sewing I’m no good at it and I’ve gained three pounds and my sister’s shower is coming up and I’m supposed to come up with game ideas but the showers I’ve been to people all play these embarrassing games and I don’t think they’re that much fun and you’ve been so crabby lately and I wonder if I should give up painting and go back to work at Doctor Reynold’s office because they’re short-handed there and I’m worried about our air conditioner it makes funny noises when you’re not here and I hate sewing

Cats always act distant to everybody

That’s what you got out of that?

Wow.
Amazing

You like the painting?

I like the painting
Too

Some art critic you are

Busy week coming up?

It doesn’t look too bad, but
Friday’s slammed

How is the painting going?

It needs more work.
I’ll show you later —
Have you seen the cat?
I can’t find the cat

We don’t own a cat

I mean, sure,
Nobody really “owns” a cat…

We have no cat.
No cat lives here.
If one did, you would
Call it by her or his name.
You would say,
Have you seen Belle? or
Have you seen Lee-Kwan-Dexter?
or whatever.

“Lee-Kwan-Dexter”?
You are not naming our cat.

Are you saying you want a cat?

Why do you hate cats?

What are you talking about?
I love cats

You don’t see too concerned
That we can’t find ours

Then
Let’s go down to the shelter
Tomorrow
And see if we can find our cat

Now you’re talking

This is my new
“Model pose” –
What do you think?

It’s working on me

So you would buy a magazine with
… this …
On the cover?

I’d buy more than one

Have you ever read the articles
In Cosmo

Regretfully, yes

You have?

There was that one issue
Where
They had that article
On having better sex…
No, wait,
That’s every issue

Did you learn anything?

You tell me…
Have you learned anything
From reading them?

You tell me

I… umm…
Don’t know what you might
Have been like before
I met you

Oh, basically the same.
Unable to think of what to paint,
But full of poses no one had seen yet…

So I came around
Just in time for
All the good stuff

Basically, yes

How’s the painting going?

I haven’t started yet
I am trying to think of
What it is I want to paint

I like it so far

You would
You’re weird

Me? Weird?

Well, your taste in art
Is as strange
As your taste in women

I think your painting needs
…
More white space

Really?
This is a painting
Of all your coherent thoughts

Hmmm.
Not blank enough

I might have to
Agree with you there

Should I go away and
Let you paint?

Maybe you could be
An artist’s assistant, and
Bring me some tea

You’re so demanding.
But,
Okay

While you’re in there
Find me something
I can actually
Paint about

… If people can’t order
What they want to eat
In less than 45 seconds,
They shouldn’t be using
A fast food drive-in, and…
Why are you laughing?

Because you’re on a rant

It’s called “fast food”
Because it’s supposed to be
You know, fast —

You’re logic seems
Irrefutable.
What do you think
Of my hair tonight?

It looks amazing.

Worth a long wait
At a drive thru window?

I would wait
Behind a Greyhound Bus
Full of sloths
For that hair.

Wow.
My hair is like
Rant control