Hello, Dolly!

I do love me some Dolly Parton. Oh sure she is a little over the top, but she is brilliant. She writes all of her own music. She made a name for herself in a male dominated field.

Someday I want to go to Sevierville and soak up some Dollyness. I guess I would have to go to Dollywood too. I hear Tennessee is absolutely beautiful.

My mother and I have been talking for years about doing a driving tour of the south. Start somewhere in southern Georgia and drive through Atlanta, Savannah, head over to Alabama and Louisiana, then up through Arkansas and Tennessee. Also the Carolinas. My mom lives in Maryland so it wouldn't be too long a haul. I've been to Florida, but I haven't spent any time in the south really. It seems like it is a whole different world.

I like grits, so I already have a headstart.

Anyway, Dolly. Amazing. She's tiny too! Me sized!

It can be difficult to be taken seriously when you barely scrape 5' and have a voice like a 6 year old. I know.

When I worked as a receptionist, I spent most of my day on the phone. Ever so often I would get a creepy compliment from a man on my voice. Pedophiles, all of them.

I wish I had a more commanding voice. My mother has the same voice. People always take that "Loveline" approach, because whenever Dr Drew would get a tiny voiced woman on the phone he insisted that they must have suffered some trauma in childhood causing a glitch in voice growth or something. Bullshit. My mom actually went to a speech therapist. This is just our vocal register.

But please please please take me seriously. I may sounds like a child, but usually I know what I am talking about. Fuck usually, I always know what I'm talking about. Even if I don't, I say it with such conviction people think that I do.

I'm watching "9 to 5," hence the empowerment (and the Dolly). Awesome movie.

Most random blog post ever.