Le maudit Mo D.

in a room full of zavens

This coming July 4th weekend, I am joining my mother at a big Armenian banquet event in San Diego. The last time she attended a big Armo event, she met the ex-stepdad, so clearly I need to be there to run interference should some limp-ass loser crawl out from under the dessert table and try to marry my mom. She doesn't need that and though it would be nice if she had a quality male companion, I doubt that he'd come from the tribe. Armo men don't age well, and many of them are divorcees with impotence problems who would either want someone to do their laundry and fix their meals or are fixin' to gold-dig. NO THANK YOU.

The real reason I'm going is, of course, research. This is the type of event that my Armo character Zaven would attend, and so I am going to find the real Zaven Melkonian. I will wear my full wedding ring set (I'm not a bling girl) and do some Armenian line dancing (I sort of regret not having a few Armenian dances at my wedding) and try to talk to people, although I suspect it will be an older crowd. Like, my mom's age crowd.

I will also count how many natural Armenian noses are left in the room. Kef Time SD!

Also, if you're looking for the most polite teenagers in central Texas, look no further than Luby's. Bob and I dined there tonight (Bob had the Tuscan Chicken--they're performing miracles with chicken at the Lubes) and we were, of course, treated to some down home hospitality. Even though I love Luby's, it always foments some unpleasantness between Bob and I. He knows I pine for the northeast everyday and have for a long time and since I can't have my Borpe and my autumn leaves simultaneously, whenever something very Texan shows up I get kind of snotty and Bob gets mad at my snottiness.

I tried to antedate "improv" today for my own enjoyment and folly and have found I need to hie mine own arse to the UT library to do so. Beloved Former Employer has it as 1978, and I'm thinking there is proof that it was used prior to that. I did find their 1978 citation in the NYTimes, though. :)