Saturday morning at 9:00 am I received an email from the phone booths of time. The real Lederman sent me a time capsule email three years ago (with the foresight to have it sent to my gmail account) including some comments on that day's lunch and predictions for where I'd be at 9:00 am on 11/15/08.
Coincidentally (or not) I had just gone through my desk and found this:
An original Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure trading card (!)(compliments of Bob Bob) that rotated in and out of my wallet for the past ten years. The caption on the back reads: Bill and Ted demonstrate their most unprecedented air guitar, perhaps in preparation for another Wyld Stallyns gig. What about these two dudes doesn't make you happy? I can safely say very little.
Three highlights from Lederman's time traveling email:
- I distinctly remember the lunch she talked about. It was my first foray into orzo. Delicious yet tasteless.
- She was right that I was not at my old spot. Just in the nick of time, I'd say!
- She mentioned that if we weren't still in regular contact, to pick up the phone and call her (she'd still have the same number.)
I got the past email only moments after a (then) present email from Lederman, so no friendship refreshers necessary. Re: me, she could make some pretty dead-on predictions - if she'd sent it three years and a week and half earlier, she'd have been wrong - that's how good she is. Her own future info was maybe not so easy for her to predict (her line is now international.) Sometimes this is what I'm talkin' 'bout when I'm asking for suggestions for what to do next - friends might know you better than you know yourself (one result of all that face time). In conclusion, yes, I mean it when I solicit ideas. Or, I could just wait for George Carlin to show up and help me divine my future from history.
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