I didn’t really want to know but I had to look. I will hastily forget all about that. 😛

Well, there’s this essay in When You Are Engulfed in Flames in which he chronicles his inept fashion sense through the years, then talks about how he decides to take up bow-tie wearing as an attempt to have an appropriately authorial middle-aged style. Then he tells the response it gets for him at readings, from women, which is puzzling, and trying to decide exactly what it all means. Finally his friend tells him in one sentence exactly what wearing a bow tie declares to the world. I can’t tell you, because the whole essay is build up. If I just said it, you’d say, “No!” The essay makes it pretty convincing.

If you REALLY want to know, you can find the quote a bit more than halfway down this page:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/2849.David_Sedaris

Oh, yeah, I would definitely recommend starting at the beginning. If for no other reason than the first book is extremely amusing. Plus it’s fun watching everyone grow up. Crocodile on the Sandbank is first, and it always makes me smile.

And I thought of you today:we were working the Deans Fellows weekend, and a very abrasive 1L was annoying me, and wearing a bow-tie. I would have been worried, but, fortunately, he was in no way awesome, and your comments comforted me, because instead of sitting there fuming, I could sit there being indignant and superior, thinking who do you think you are, cause whatever you think, you are nowhere near so cool as a supreme court justice or the Doctor.

Little brat. He annoyed me his weekend too, but then I just figured he was annoying because he was nervous and trying to impress us so he’d get in. Now, I’m feeling less charitable.

Hahaha, yup, that was pretty much my response too. Him and David. I love it when Ramses gets in trouble and David is all “My brother! I will go after him!” Bless ’em. I think David was such an excellent addition to the series.

YOU fill me with joy. By being pretty.

*makes heart with fingers*

I haven’t, but maybe you’d better not tell me.

…NO TELL ME I AM SO CURIOUS.

Yes, the change in locale was fun, although I did wish we’d seen more of the German’s work to influence the Muslim world. But I liked having the Emersons spend some time away from Egypt.

Poor you! But I think that sort of thing is like having an early May birthday which falls during exams – sucks during college, but then once you’re away from college, it’s not really a problem anymore.

(I did hate having my birthday during finals though.)

Really? What else has he written? Maybe I should get a copy of Like Hidden Fire for my uncle’s birthday; he’s a mad history buff.