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Erica K
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Grew up in Jackson Heights, New York, but now live in Jersey. Married and the proud owner (servant?) of 4 cats, including a little blind guy named Quincy. Jobs have included: English teacher in U.S. and abroad, cabaret performer and member of a NYC sketch comedy troupe; now a full-time legal secretary and freelance writer. Other jobs: canvasser for NYPIRG/cannery worker in Naknek, Alaska (a fisherman told me it was "the ugliest part of Alaska")/dog kennel cleaner/member of the swine and poultry crew on a California farm. Currently performing my solo show, "The Year of Dead Cats," at Stage Left Studio in NYC. http://stageleftstudio.net/ "Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." Samuel Beckett

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JULY 18, 2012 8:51AM

Who Do You Love?

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Who do you love?  Grammatically speaking, "whom" would be correct in this case but "who" sounds better.  Apparently “Jessica” loves me. This is the PM I received from her yesterday:

NICE TO MEET YOU.
my name is Jessica. here is my privet e-mail' ( nechwajessica@yahoo.com )
i will like to know you more. so that i can send you my picture and my detail's for you to know me more so I am waiting for your mail to my email address below. please don't chat &me here just send me mail and i will get back to you.
with love.
Jessica

It's good to be loved, even by a spectre in Spam Land who misspells “private.” “Privet” (Jessica's “private”) is a term for any of various deciduous trees or shrubs of the genus Ligustrum, esp. L. vulgare, having clusters of small white flowers and commonly grown as a hedge (Dictionary.com).

Maybe it's a sign. Perhaps Jessica grows deciduous trees or maybe she is a tree who was reincarnated as a spammer.

 

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Privet

So, Jessica, whether you are a tree or a spammer or something else altogether, thank you for the email. I don't think we were meant for  each other, but I do hope you find the love you need.

 

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Hey! She said she loved me!!
I guess she's a free spirit, Chicken Maaan.
I am sure she would just love to occupy your guest bedroom and then your wallet.
Ande, I don't doubt that either. LOL.
Maybe she lives by Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia (Privet Drive). This could be your chance to meet Harry Potter! Don't be too hasty to dismiss her! :)
That cheating hussy! She proclaimed her love to me ::weeping:: Heart, stop thy beating; breath, cease to gasp; tears, no longer hotly flow: Jessica has gone from us and so may I now die upon the bosom of our once storied passion.
Midwest, you're right! That would be fun! I could use some fantasy right now.

Oh, Seth, she has proclaimed her love to so many of us, it seems. That cheating, cheating hussy. How shall we ever, collectively, recover?
Hemlock. In the immortal words of Socrates: "This doesn't taste like prune juice."
She's actually for real (though admittedly an unconventional speller. ) She's all about money orders which I find endearingly old fashioned. I can't wait to hook up with her in Nigeria in August. She promised a first clalss round trip air fare the minute she gets the money order. I too was skeptical but she's a keeper. Just in the nick of time. I need true love just about now! Not sure about the decidous trees but wouldn't be surprised . Jessie is a very nurturing woman.
You mean, that PM I received wasn't real???
"Don't chat me." Swoon. Love it when they don't mince the words.
I don't thank them. These people are bloodsuckers.
Tink will be so upset that Jessica is cheating on him.
What is it, love is all you need?
she must of read my crap,cause she ignored me......
I've always wondered what those PMs were about but never had time to respond.

If you find the time let me know how it turns out she might be sincere.

Kind of like Romney or Obama.
I often wonder, when I get such idiotic messages, just how sad a person's life must be for them to involve themselves in such transparent schemes to squeeze a few dollars out of others with such a sad, inept scam.

I wonder if they ever come to realize that the amount of work they put into such things, if applied in other, honest, directions would profit them handsomely. And with a clear conscience, too!

Life is strange......

;-)
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Damn, Jessica's cheating on me already!
So much effort into that little IM. Desperation.
Don't worry. It's just that Damn Cat Tink messing around again.
Wait a minute...I got the same message...and arranged a privet rendez-vous with Jessica and everything! Well, I guess I'll just have to write her back and cancel. Sigh...if you can't trust spammers, who can you trus?t..... :-)
NO! Elizabeth, I am the one who loves you, not that tramp Jessica. Am composing a much better PM this very minute. Don't sit under that privet hedge with anyone else but me. I'm also re-writing that old Glenn Miller song and will croon it in your ear when soon we meet Emily. Probably on some glorious tropical beach.

I love ONLY YOU Ellen, I adore and worship you and when you respond, send me all your credit card info. I'm getting started writing songs and poetry about our love.
The bots have been reprogrammed to set up OS accounts with names from the phone book or other databases... sigh... at least your Jessica might be some unemployed guy from Poland.
fernsy, Nigeria in August! Wow! I'm glad you're finally getting that much-needed vacation. Love is where you find it.

Paul, "real" is relative.

fernsy, I know, it's her special lingo.

Patrick, bloodsuckers (vampires, perhaps?) to some, lovers to others.

That's right, Mary!

Joisey, yay, Thorogood!

Jon, don't be jealous. She has plenty of love to go around.

Steel, Jessica's a whimsical sort. Perhaps she will email you another time.
Mark, it might be best if you don't tell Tink. He might scratch her eyes, or bark, out!

Zachery, I will keep you informed.

Sky, life is strange indeed.

Cranky, sorry to burst your bubble, but the truth will set you free, no?

Zanelle, desperate is right.

Boanerges, you mean Tink is a deciduous tree or shrub? I thought he was a cat. I'm in shock.

Alysa, never say never. She just might appear in the guise of a shrub!

L'Heure, please share the lyrics to your song. I love the Andrews Sisters!

jmac, yes, could be a guy. Never considered that. He/she certainly gets around.
It's what Tink does to deciduous trees and shrubs that's so ... revolting.
jessica is a woman well versed in love and lovingkindness,
but not in the english language,alas.

we met up in a neutral location: my room.

she was shy at first due to her awe of my command of the
queen's english, but it all came out ok . we parted ways
with a firm handshake.

her 'details' were rather a mishmash.
Boanerges, yes, I know what felines do with trees. Yuck!

James, you are quite the casanova, aren't you?
Erica, thank you for sharing this, good to know what is happening here, and I think that in this way, if we all have our problems out in the open, maybe they can be solved. I trully think, the new editor, is actually reading us.
[r] thanks for the tune. i once got a 5-page letter in long-hand from what could only be a gigolo recruiting a customer. he obviously did not know how poor I was for one basic thing (HAH!) or how ferociously self-protective but where did he get my address? He gave me his or rather, a box number to write to. Did he know who I was? Nothing personal in the letter to indicate that. JUST REALLY REALLY CREEPY. I mean a friendly guy who wrote well but to a stranger asking her to be his sugar mama????

best, libby
Erica: I know, right? God closes a door and opens a window sitch. I plan to post drought photos from Nigeria and I best get an EP!
Libby, that is super creepy! A letter in long-hand, no less! The sad thing is that I bet some very very lonely people may respond to those gigolos and other assorted/sordid bloodsuckers. xo

Fernsy, yes, drought photos, please! I'm sure that will rate you an EP!
Olga, You're welcome. I have received many emails like this on OS as have other writers.
Erica, who are these mysterious people in love with you?!!! Don't they know you are taken by a Nordic guy and cats?!
Joanne, I guess they believe in free love!