...For Pookie and Martina Hingis!
I had beed reluctant to blog about Martina Hingis's comeback, and about her first round match at the Australian Open especially, because I was worried about jinxing her. For the same reason, I hadn't shared with those closest to me the *fantastic* news that Pookie had reached an agreement on a new flat in New York.
I've been thinking about it though, and I realized that Madame Wong would be very disappointed (not really -- I can't ever disappoint her because she loves me so much and I'm so close to perfect ;p) by how superstitious I'd become (eg: over Ricco Gross, Hingis, Pookie...), because she has always said that she doesn't believe in superstition OR luck ("We make our own luck!"), and I think that this really is demonstrated by both Hingis and Pookie (a weird comparison, I know).
Hingis just played a *gorgeous* (literally) match with Zvonareva, crushing her 6-1 6-2, and it had NOTHING to do with getting lucky -- it had to do with a lot of talent and thousands of hours on court. Pookie has reached an agreement on great Murray Hill flat that ALSO had nothing to do with luck, but about shrewd market timing, clear (post-Moscow) thinking, hard work looking for flats and setting realistic search parameters, and working for more than two decades (WOW!) in private law to make this kind of purchase possible.
These kinds of people do not need luck.
They can use our well-wishing, though, so let's send some colletive optimism their way that Hingis continues to make an impressive comeback to professional tennis, and that Pookie gets approval from the co-op board.
Let's not spread our good wishes too thin: I could compile a list a mile long of things we could wish for for Desi Puppy and the whole rest of the bunch...even for Martina and Pookie there is more road ahead than behind: Hingis needs to remain injury free and Pookie needs to finish upgrading his current flat, find good buyers who are themselves co-op approved, etc. For now, though, my blog wish is that they both continue with lots of success (tomorrow, which is a day off for Hingis :) I might focus my psychic positive energy on friend's job searches or my own law school aps!).
Anyway, YAY for the good news for two people I want good things for!
On a totally unrelated note, check out this CRAZY photo of Serena Williams's booty. I could be biting by 1000 mosquitoes while brushing my teeth and it would NEVER look like that!
As a former student of art history, I have to say that I think that the photo was deliberately constructed with the dog's anus in full/direct view so as to send the subconscious message that it is THAT area of the subject (Serena) that we are to focus on (it "points," iconographically, to her luscious booty).
Sidenote: Think the Jack Russell could get Murray Hill co-op approval? Could Serena's booty?
VC
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Double Wins