dumb holiday stuff and chick lit subgenre

me: so, there's a gay-ass holiday pot luck on Thursday at my work
mystery:
YAY
you've been dreading- uh, mentioning it
me: and I just found out today they're doing a gay-ass white elephant gift exchange
mystery: what's a white elephant?
besides OBVIOUSLY the most SUPERIOR elephant
me: everyone gets one random gift and then you go around stealing other people's gifts
it's gay and takes forever
and is only mildy tolerable when you do it with people you actually like
mystery: huh?
me: and sucks monkey balls if it' swith people you can't stand
mystery: you trade them?
this kinda sounds familiar
mmmm, monkey balls
wait i mean ew
me: yeah like, I pick a present, adn it's a sombrero,
and then you pick a present, and it's lint,
so you steal my sombrero and I"m stuck with lint.
and then the next persno picks vodka,
so the person after that steals the vodka,
and somehow at the end you end up with a cute puppy calendar that you trhow away as soon as you're sure no one's looking,
mystery: oh, so it's one by one, and you can keep what you get
me: and somehow the only Amish person in the office ends up with the vodka,
mystery: or 'steal'
LOL
me: and everyone's confused and pissed off
and bored
mystery: YAY!
sounds like an office party!
i got an xmas correction email
we will not be doing it at 10am
it will be at NOON
and lunch will be provided.
me: that's still a lame time
mystery:
you're telling me
there's no good time for this crap
mystery: yeah
i stayed up til 4
playing video games
now i'm tired
me: awwww
and hee
I was late for work this morning because I was reading the end of The Devil Wears Prada
which I bought at Union Station to read on the train
mystery: yay!
how was it?
me: it was pretty good for chick lit!
different from the movie.
mystery: yeah?
me: The movie manufactured drama that wasn't there
altho' Meryl Streep still ruled that part
I dunno, it's part of a sub-genre of chick lit,
"upper-middle class educated jewish chicks frown upon very rich bitchy WASPS"
mystery: LOL
me: well, you kno
like The Nanny Diaries
mystery: UMCEJeChiFUVeRiBWASPS
for short
me: right right
mystery: i can't read...
me: you know, where the heroine/protagonist is all,
"I graduated from Princeton and being a nanny until I publish this book is so hard because wasps are so soulless, wah wah wah."
mystery: aaaahhhhh
me: "NYC apartments are so small, boooo"
mystery: i am better than the people who are rich before me
me: "Until I marry a lawyer/doctor I have to be poooor"
right