Girls on Film

I just had an hour-long phone conversation with my friend (Cio) whom I haven't talked with in months. Cio is originally from Spain and she's a little spit fire. She and her ex-husband met when he was on an exchange to Spain in high school. She then came to the States to be with him and in the process went to college here. She now has her PhD and is one of the coolest psychologists I know. Unfortunately the birth of their son broke their already fragile marriage. After a few years on the sidelines, she is back in the dating scene and when she is not busy with her practice, she writes "women-friendly" erotica. Now, as an aside I have no problem talking to my girlfriends about stuff, but this woman's candidness makes me blush. Case in point, a group of us helped Cio move into her apartment when she and her husband split. She had a bunch of boxes marked with "!!" and when we asked where we should put them she proceeded to tell us it was her sex toys and dress up outfits, etc, etc. Anyway, Cio would like to do scripts with an Asian theme and asked for my opinion. Hey, just because I'm Indian doesn't mean that I've read the Kama Sutra. I suggested she stay away from anything stereotypically Indian...you know sari-clad village girl or convenient store owner stuff. Rather, she should do a regular script and just use Asian/South Asian characters. She told me about an unfinished story of internet dating which we refined to be about a male blogger from India and a female blogger in Singapore, etc, etc. I would be lying if I said I didn't think specifically about certain people and their lives while I was talking with her. I was good on providing ideas on conveying emotional connections while she provided some of the other...ummm... details. As with most conversations any of us have with Cio, it's one sided as she goes off at a million miles an hour allowing the other person only enough time to respond with a periodic "that's good" or "no, don't write that". I joked at the end of our conversation that I wasn't sure if I needed a cigarette or a cold shower.