Uncreated Conscience

I shared this adorable story of one Matt Smith (not the Doctor) dressed as the Doctor (as played by another Matt Smith) proposing to his girlfriend at the Doctor Who Experience with my Whovian coworkers and got this response.

• TERRA: Wouldn’t a part of you but just a LITTLE disappointed that it’s not the other Matt Smith?
  TERRA: When they get married, I hope she looks deep into his eyes and sees another Matt Smith standing inside, waving.

I’m dead.

Dead.

• JJ: For the longest time I’ve spelled it “doughnut” but everyone said that was archaic and/or wrong. “Donut” still looks weird.
• WICKED COOL RILEY: I only use “donut” because of Dunkin Donuts. I sort of prefer the archaic spelling.
• JJ: I’m almost positive all doughnut places spell it “donut”. But I think there was a book I read as a kid that spelled it “doughnut”, so it stuck in my brain that way.
• WICKED COOL RILEY: Homer Price?!
  WICKED COOL RILEY: (probably not).
• JJ: YES.
  JJ: THANK YOU.
  JJ: IT WAS!!!!
• WICKED COOL RILEY: AHHHHH
  WICKED COOL RILEY: I did the BEST DAMN DIORAMA EVER MADE as a book report for that book. I did the doughnut scene (obviously) and used cheerios for the doughnuts. I glued them eeeeeverywhere and it was amazing.
  WICKED COOL RILEY: I was so mad when my mother made me throw it out.

And this, my friends, is why everyone needs a Wicked Cool Riley in their lives.

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Firstly: Happy new year! (Even though my family does not celebrate the Lunar New Year, I figured today was an appropriate day to actually blog about a new year!)

Secondly: Wow, it’s been…a long time since I’ve blogged anything substantial.

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• WICKED COOL RILEY: When I was a teenager declaring my love there was a lot of mumbling and short, declarative sentences.
  WICKED COOL RILEY: And idiotic grinning.
• JJ: I never declared love to anyone as a teenager.
  JJ: I didn’t believe teenagers had the capacity to declare love.
  JJ: Even when I was 16.
• WICKED COOL RILEY: I did, to one boyfriend, but only like, two months after he’d first said it to me.
  WICKED COOL RILEY: And I can recognize now that what I felt wasn’t love, and I think I knew it then, too. But I couldn’t think of another word that encompassed what I felt.
  WICKED COOL RILEY: Which was something along the lines of delusional obsession.
• JJ: HAHAHAHA. “I am delusionally obsessed with you.”
• WICKED COOL RILEY: I CARED about him a great deal, and that part was genuine. But I care in this mix of maternal and like, dog walker.
  WICKED COOL RILEY: And was mostly just very swept up in the drama of it all.
• JJ: OMG. BEST DESCRIPTION EVER.
• WICKED COOL RILEY: IT’S TRUE THOUGH.
  WICKED COOL RILEY: I CARED ABOUT JOE CLARK LIKE I WAS HIS DOG WALKER.
  WICKED COOL RILEY: Which I pretty much was.
• JJ: I less than three you SO MUCH, Kelly Riley.
  JJ: SO MUCH.
• WICKED COOL RILEY: Is this going on your blog?
• JJ: YOU BET IT IS.

• KOREAN LADY GIVING ME A FACIAL: You should take better care of your skin, especially during your student years. You don’t want to have to spend a lot of money to get your skin looking this young again.
• JJ: …I’m not a student.
• KLGMAF: No? How old are you?
• JJ: I’m 26.
• KLGMAF: Omona, omona!* You gave me a heart attack! I thought you were in high school!

This is what happens when you have a youthful face, a teenaged brother, and young-looking parents: people assume you’re still in school. Once I ordered una cerveza when my family and I went on vacation together to Cancún last year, but the waiter came back with a 7Up. When I sent it back asked for a beer, he looked to my parents to see if it was okay with them. Mind you, the drinking age is 18 in Mexico.

*Omona is pretty much the Korean equivalent of “Oh my goodness!”