Stupid Power

a Stupid Power is a useless ability or behavior that one possesses that could, potentially, under the right circumstances, at the last minute, under great duress, defeat Evil and Save The Day. like being Invisible when no one is looking.

though my Stupid Power in grad school used to be the Procrastinater, it was so powerful (or rather, grad school so sucked the lifeforce from me) that my passion and work ethic deteriorated to such an extent that i quit grad school (see previous blog). i suppose it did defeat the Evils of OverEducation & Social Ineptitude and save my days from Toxic Academic Personalities and Intellectual Ennui and return my love of books to me. and anyways, i mean how much bigger could my brain get, right Uyen?

this morning as i blearily roused from the sofabed to the sounds of my niece getting ready for pre-school and dragged myself into the jack-and-jill so uuubiquitous in tract homes, i had a flash of intuition about my stupid power. unfortunately i gave up coffee earlier this year and so hadn't yet made my post-Viet Nam secret morning cup of joe to get me through. i forgot it somewhere between puzzling out making the sofabed and weo, now as i enjoy a double shot of G7 (apparently the coffee of ASEAN heads of state).

so in the spirit of viewer driven content and democractic principles upon which this nation-state was founded based on philosophy and land stolen from the indigenous peoples, i'm willing to take constructive suggestions on the nature of my Stupid Power. comment away.

i already know what my darling eee-eht-eoo spouse is going to say, and no, saying eye-KAY-ah and UUU-bik-kweh-tus does not constitute a stupid power, nhé! yu top rai hia! TAO YÊU MÀY!