Myth #3

Marlie just left and we've agreed that since we're both free on Tuesday, that will be the epic Aibou Day. Aibou, for anyone who doesn't go on Fanfiction.net religiously, kind of means "partner". Writers on there use it a lot to describe the relationship between Yugi/Yami, which is I guess as close to ours as the show gets. Marik/Malik are a little too violent to be us (let's face it, Marik was slightly messed up to begin with) and Ryou and Bakura's relationship is too love-hate. I like to think that Marlie and I are partners in some grand scheme. Like Holmes and Watson. Calvin and Hobbes. Just a great duo. Plus, the word 'ai' is in aibou, which I'm almost certain is Japanese for "love". That works for me.

On Tuesday, I get the morning to take Marlie to breakfast and we do whatever I want (really, that means whatever I want to do for her), have lunch at Subway (a place we both enjoy), and then the afternoon and dinner are hers. It'll be good for us to spend a whole day together. We'll be going back to school so soon, and to answer a question I got emailed today: no. We don't go to the same college. I don't even want to write about it until I have to.

Myth #3. Hikaris are physically weak. Yamis are physically strong, and they are at least stronger than their hikari.

I'm so glad someone actually voted! Thank you so much, anonymous person. Anonymous thought that the above is a fact.

S/he was half-right, half-wrong.

More like 2/3 right and 1/3 wrong.

Hikaris are not physically weak. I wholeheartedly deny that I am weak! For christ's sake, I can run six miles in an hour without feeling sore the next day. I don't consider that weak. In addition, I'm on my college rowing team and we get on those rowing machines even in the winter off-season. That sport is friggin' hardcore. I must have some kind of inner strength because it's a sport where supposedly tall people do the best (I'm 5'2", you'll remember) and I kick some of those tall people's asses when it comes to technique and endurance.

On the other hand... Marlie is one buff chick.

It's not obvious when you look at her. She's definitely not that stereotypical scary-wrestler- Amazon woman. She's only about an inch or so taller than me. How strong could she be, right? The answer is incredibly strong. She's been horseback-riding for about 10 years now. That takes care of her 110% muscle legs (and it's where I get mine as well. I introduced her to the sport. The difference is that I stopped riding a few years ago and she's still going at it).

Marlie also works at her barn to pay for lessons. Barn work includes lifting heavy water buckets, mucking stalls (horse poop is heavy!), and wrestling with misbehaving stallions. I'm so envious because her arms are fucking chiseled. Not with huge muscles, but the scarier kind- lean muscles. I think that if she were paralyzed except for the use of one arm (right or left, it doesn't matter. I've lost in arm wrestling to both), she could still kill you in under a minute just by breaking something off. Because she watches medical shows, she even knows exactly what to break off.

So, okay, she's probably somewhere between two to three times as strong as I am. But hey! That does not mean I'm weak. Well, my arms are by now because I've done absolutely nothing with them over the summer, but I graduated from a kickboxing class and my legs are F-I-T fit. So, uh, shut the fuck up. I'm not weak. Why do I feel like I'm typing defensively?

Here's the myth to vote about for tomorrow.

Myth # 4 Preview: Yamis are impervious to pain. They ignore it. Hikaris will cry at the slightest wound. They complain about it.

While you're musing on that, check out the album Under the Iron Sea by Keane. Really chill music. I especially like the songs Atlantic, Is it Any Wonder, Nothing in My Way, Hamburg Song, Crystal Ball, and The Frog Prince. Er. Which is about half the CD. And I like the other ones almost as much. Download now!