Mindy Kaling

I'm pretty sure I would love Mindy Kaling. She seems clever, quirky, imaginative, funny, self-aware, down-to-earth, relate-able, and sweet. Kind of like a lot of my current friends!

In this NYT article, she writes about her penchant for imagining her future fantasy families, and one can really hear her tone and sense of humor. Instant girlcrush.

"This time, the family that I assumed the parking attendant was referring to included a dark-haired agnostic architect husband named Alex who liked ethnic food and zombie movies. (For the record, Alex is a product of my imagination. I realize that no real people are actually architects, and that it is a profession that exists entirely in movies, like art gallery owner or children’s bookshop proprietor.) [a/n: hahaha this is my favorite line. Incidentally, I do know someone whose father is an architect (in Dubai, natch), but I think this is generally a truism.]

Anyway, back to Alex. He was ethereal and dressed terribly because he didn’t care about clothes, but I kind of liked that about him. He did little things that drove me crazy like leaving his suitcase in the middle of the room when he returned from a business trip, an idiosyncrasy I once heard Michelle Obama attribute to her husband.

Alex and I lived in Hancock Park — a hip Los Angeles neighborhood — and I loved him so much that I was in a perpetual state of grinning. The kids were, I don’t know, kids. Really cute, etc. I have less experience with cute kids than I do with cute guys, so I’m not able to describe them as well, but trust me — super cute."

Read the rest of the article here.

Do you ever picture your future life? Mindy Kaling is about 10 years older than me (us?), so she's in a different place in her life. Accordingly, I don't think I've spent as much time imagining an exact future, but I admitted to Fay the other day that after watching The Wedding Planner on TV, I wouldn't mind marrying a doctor (i.e. Matthew McConaughey as a pediatrician) and she confided in turn that she has been waiting to marry Hugh Grant in Four Weddings and a Funeral. Hugh Grant is a different story though -- I think he's just manufactured for women to swoon over. That's why he's consistently cast in the same role, British accent intact, regardless of the setting or time period. Instant swoon.


P.S. Mindy Kaling is also a writer and actress on The Office and a Dartmouth grad... and drew comics for The Dartmouth, which both Fay and I have written for at one point/continue to write for.