Years ago a friend invented an awesome acronym. It was something to do with Spike from Buffy; it insightfully described an aspect of his relationship with someone else in the show and spelled a word that was unexpected enough to provide a comic disjuncture while still being incisively pertinent. It was far better than her summation of what kept the X-Files series humming along (L.U.S.T. = Longterm Unresolved Sexual Tension). I urged her to write it down, email it, post it on discussion boards, promote it far and wide in the Buffyverse so that it could Become A Thing.
She didn’t. This was back before blogs so internet discussion boards were pretty much The Only Way. Neither of us can remember that acronym now, and I believe the universe is the poorer for it. Which brings me to The Here And Now.
A lot of people seem to be into the idea of a temporary relationship. To express what that attitude seems to embody to me, I humbly present… an acronym:
TUSHIE:
Together
Until
Someone
Hotter’s
Interested
Enough
There’s a point at which ‘I like you’ becomes ‘I like us’.
