#life

SWAMPDATE

Hola to yourself as well, Lindzi!!!!! I do hope you are not COMING DOWN with some terrible illness...from the way you ended your last message I BECAME CONCERNED....am forwarding some research I did on some SUPERBUGS that are currently afflicting a growing global population and can really sneak up on you ...that necrotizing fasciitis and ebola, really something to keep an eye out for! Might want to make a checkup with your physician just to rule out some of these options (legionella, for instance--starts out like a mild case of the flu, but TURNS OUT BEING FATAL TO ONE THIRD OF THOSE INFECTED.) Just putting it out there.

So where were we?????

Ah. Yes. If you could Please Convey To Ted that I. AM. NOT. STUPID. That would be a boon to yours truly. I can TELL THE DIFFERENCE between different words with the same initials.

THANKS.

So after your last email and the "clarification" from Ted I did look up "shell corporation" again, and lo and behold--just as Ted had suspected--the term "shell" CAN ALSO REFER to some kind of a company that doesn't have any assets or employees?

Ok. sort of lost me there. Isn't the WHOLE POINT OF HAVING A COMPANY TO MAKE MONEY AND HAVE EMPLOYEES???? Otherwise, seriously, WHY EVEN TAKE THE TIME????

I know there is a lot of weirdness and lack of thought in today's world, but really.

To establish a company just to have it out there, for no economic or employment function at all? Maybe it would look good on the resume to be able to say you had your own company (possible motivation) I guess I could see how adding "President and CEO of such and such" would add a little oomph to one's self introduction, but other than possible self esteem boosters...not really seeing the whole rationale.

So, I sat there, heeming and hawing and stalling out with my candy crush, my phone out in front of me. Ted's number right there under my fingertips....but due to our uncomfortable previous conversation I sort of wondered whether he would even pick up the phone for me again...or if he did, would his condescending and snarky attitude immediately trigger my aggravation and shut down the whole discussion before it could begin???

And then I remembered he had suggested contacting Lila regarding these type questions. Hmmm.

Whereas Lila is ALSO someone I feel a little awkwardness shooting an in passing cheerful "hello" toward (face it, our interaction at MEGADATE was LESS THAN ENTIRELY GRACIOUS) as you pointed out, Lila and I need to mend our bridges, get past our misunderstandings and move on...so...taking a deep breath and cracking open one of the stiffer craft beers (tobacco oak stout, thank you very much) I broke out her contact and fired a quickie text--

"Hi Lila. Just out of random curiosity, why would someone set up a shell corporation (not the gas kind) Figure you as our legal beagle out there would know!!"

Didn't want her falling into my own embarrassing pitfall of confusion, after all regarding the equivocation on "shell"!!!!! (And why do these people have to use the same names as eachother, anyway? Isn't that what copyright is for????)

So that done...moved on to other items of business. Packing the old suitcase.

So Ryan got back last night...a little weirded that I still had our bedroom door locked and was camping out on the couch and wearing the sweats out of MEGADATE's luggage... He made a bit of a scene using the screwdriver to unloose the locked-from-the-inside knob on our door and then huffing all of his own stuff into the room while I sat laconically on the couch with my feet up watching NCIS (they had a marathon on showtime okay? I had gotten hooked) and after a lot of unnecessary bumping around and banging in our room he stuck his head out. "Aren't you coming in?"