Anything Is Possible

Today, while in the shower, narrating my thoughts in the Spanish-language monologue constantly running through my head, I naturally manufactured the sentence "Mi amiga me lo hizo" (my friend made it for me). I didn't realize the magnitude of the situation at first, as I was momentarily stunned that I had pieced together two pronouns and the correctly conjugated third person past tense verb. But after quickly confirming the accuracy of each sentence element, I became overcome by the most tremendous feeling of unbridled joy since I played EQUINOX with a blank as the X in a Scrabble game two years ago. Unfortunately, I was confined by the walls of the shower, otherwise I would have done my trademark rip off my shirt and run around the house shouting like a maniac celebration. Thus I had to make do with shampoo-drenched fist-pumping interspersed with English-language cursing. In my mind however, I was unleashing a savage Kevin Garnett scream, and in the post-sentence interview, thanking my psychiatrist and members of my hood.

I got out of the shower and shared my moment of victory with my Colombian roommate Luis, who informed me that, as my sentence concerned the feminine object pulsera (bracelet), the correct phrase is "me la hizo."