A friend of a decade and I recently had the following exchange over Gmail Chat. Whenever I'm having a bad day where I'm certain that I'm the rottenest, most worthless person ever to walk the earth, I'll pull up this blog entry, so I can remember that someone thinks I'm awesome.
Me: I'm almost done editing your resume. Which is very impressive, natch.
Me: (Did I just say natch? I need to go to bed...)Renee: what the hell IS "natch" anyway??
Me: "Natch" is short for "naturally." They used it in all the teenybopper paperbacks I liked when I was in middle school.
Me: Claudia Kishi, for instance, was always saying things like "natch."Renee: did you just reference the babysitter's club???????????
Renee: it's like i think i love you more than humanly possible and then you pull a move like that.
I love you too, Renee.
Bonus link: A fellow nerd revisits her awkward(est) years one Babysitter's Club book at a time.
i was just about to share the link to the BSC Headquarters and then i see you already have it.
i love that blog.