Subject: Chat with Selena Leong
From: Selena Leong <selenaleong@gmail.com>
To: barriticus@gmail.com

me: okay, finished revision and sent it to him, should address those changes
Selena: hahaha OK thanks.
me: meanwhile, I'm drinking vodka at my buddy's house here
Selena: sorry if i sounded cunty
Selena: i just got home, haven't slept for two days, my cats suck, they threw up on my bed
Selena: i want to kill them
me: let me know if you want to come hang out
me: ah, guess not
Selena: i just cracked open a bottle of wine
Selena: i hate life
Selena: i hate my cats
me: I see
Selena: not sleeping for two days thanks to insomnia = FUCK YOU LIFE
Selena: and i went to a job interview this afternoon
me: that'll do it
Selena: yeah i dont know how i haven't lost it yet
Selena: how are you?
me: pretty good, actually
Selena: well iam gld to hear that!
me: finally got ahead in my work
Selena: great, where are you going to be published?
me: same old places, just hadn't been feeling up to serious work for a few weeks
Selena: well you were in the process of moving, no?
me: also resumed my old column for BushwickBK
Selena: oh excellent!
Selena: does that pay?
me: yeah, but that was only part of it, just didn't feel well, ups and downs of hard drug recovery, feeling nice and healthy and wholesome now
me: they do
Selena: we should dine and review
me: and in fact
Selena: oh i'm so glad to hear you're feeling on the mend :)
me: right, I mentioned that, he wants a bunch of articles
me: his writers suck
Selena: well
Selena: maybe i should submit something
me: yeah, you saw me at my worst, I'm a lot more exuberant usually
me: you should, I'll put you in touch with the edtiro
Selena: wow OK
Selena: maybe send out an email and cc me?
Selena: i'm glad to hear you're getting better
me: we can also team up to do restaurant reviews and thereby essentially eat at nice places for free
Selena: i've been feeling terrible so i hide
Selena: YESSSSS NICE "FREE" MEALS = HIGH LIFE
me: I understand, had to do the same thing for a little while
Selena: i think i've been drinking too much alone at home
Selena: trying to curb that
Selena: today is a different story though
me: right, you've got cat problems
Selena: hahaha PUKE ON MY BED
Selena: SERIOUSLY
Selena: SO MAD
me: it's a tough world
Selena: don't you mock me BB
me: !!!!!
Selena: just sayin'
me: here's my latest column to give you a sense of what he likes, will send him e-mail and CC you in a bit
Selena: OK! great thank you
Selena: i'll probably write him tmw. i can't even think right now
Selena: operating on FUMES
me: http://bushwickbk.com/2010/05/05/a-dead-gangster-and-a-crappy-bakery/
me: also, keep in mind
me: I've never had such a tough, asshole-laden, stalker-ish audience as exists at BushwickBK
Selena: hahahah oh god
Selena: well i got my first taste
me: can't remember if I told you about the douchebag who tried to out me as a junkie in the comments
Selena: i had ONE comment on my NYP article
me: but that's where it happened
Selena: it was a former friend.
me: right, that bitch?
Selena: yep
me: the older one?
Selena: HAHAHAHA
Selena: yes
Selena: she lied about her age
Selena: tat's the best part i kind of want to reply that
Selena: like "you're 38, why did you say you were in the 25-35 range, you hag"
me: oh, actually
me: for some reason I have nice comments on my column this time
Selena: oh that's good
Selena: i will read it in depth tmw
Selena: and leave nice comments
Selena: i love the F"UCK ROCIO'S"
me: place fucking sucks
me: and I'm really not picky
me: I dislike literally two restaurants in the whole fucking planet
me: including my excursions to Africa and Mexico
Selena: hahaha which two
Selena: wow
Selena: WOW
me: This fucking Mexican place in Austin called El Patio, of all fucking things
me: and this fucking bakery
me: and, to a lesser extent
Selena: that'simpressive
Selena: to be one of the most hated of a well traveled person such as yourself
me: every place in Dar es Salaam that offers hamburgers with fried eggs on top and whatever the fuck
Selena: oh i've heard of that
Selena: some places do that here
me: yeah, not shocking
Selena: what bio did you go w/ for our article
Selena: i could give two shits but i wanted it to say "IMOGENE LEE" to see if that cunt nicky would write more comments
Selena: and since i was outed on my regular messageboard
Selena: i want to just be like YEAH THAT'S RIGHT THIS IS # 2
me: one sec
Selena: (w/o having to say so)
me: The Anonymous Rape Couple has since met up again and is scheduled to have an entirely consensual dinner at some point in the near future.
Selena: ohhhh yeah i wanted my fake name in that.
Selena: i WANT IT public
me: fuck, I'll use my real name if you do
Selena: NO
me: I'm tired of kowtowing to my whiny fucking liberal audience
me: just today
Selena: well i want to read your revisions
me: ah, yes, will forward that you now, one sec
Selena: oh yes i like this much better
Selena: HAHAHA THE FINAL LINE IS AWESOME
Selena: i love it
me: oh thankie
Selena: that shit is snide and hot
Selena: and also probably offensive
Selena: but FUNNY AS FUCK
me: it's a balancing act
Selena: were my revisions OK
Selena: just sent a new set
me: one sec, lemme see
Selena: i really didn't add much bc i was uh "dry"
Selena: in the writing
me: that's fine and necessary, as I have a tendency to spend a lot of space with digressions and jokes and somebody needs to set up the scene better
me: I can't help myself
Selena: i know you do
me: "condom-clad cock"
me: I enjoy alliteration
Selena: as do i. obviously
me: also like "pseudo-helplessly"
Selena: well i was faking being helpless
Selena: though probably i was since i was drunk
me: I was also drunk
me: and do not exercise during winter
me: so, no, you weren't really helpless
Selena: oh yes no basketball
me: but that will change
Selena: i used to be great at wrestling
Selena: and grappling
me: played b-ball today, yesterday, working out with my friends here
me: and eating actual food
Selena: lovely, i'm happy to hear that
me: thanks, you're sweet
Selena: well i would never undermine yr self improvement