I’m still rotating my six winter sweaters because April won’t just go ahead and act like April. It must have been inspired to misbehave by January’s unseasonal warmth. But that’s not the point of this post. The point is that I’ve been wearing these six sweaters in perpetuity, and each one has a specific tee-shirt [...]
Archive for April, 2007
9 Apr
If we don’t learn our history, we’re doomed to repeat it (on DVD)
At my regular job, all my co-workers are all older than me by fifteen years or more. Normally, this is no big deal, it’s made me the computer and graphic novel expert, and that makes me flameproof. (They can’t fire me, but unfirable is not a word I can find in the dictionary.) However, being [...]
6 Apr
The miracle of life
I was born in mid-January, in 1978. If you trace back nine months from then, you land at April 8, 1977, Good Friday. I once asked my mother if there was a significant reason for choosing that date for baby-making. Her answer? “Your father had off work that day.”
3 Apr
Bad pizza’s like bad sex: either way, it’s still pretty good.
It’s no secret that one of the reasons I joined Planet Fitness is because they give away free pizza on the first Monday of every month. That’s why I circled yesterday’s date in my calendar and wrote the words: “two slices worth of cardio.” I raced to the gym after work, did 20 minutes of [...]
2 Apr
mo’ money, mo’ problems
While going through some old receipts last night, I found that I accidentally grabbed the signed copy of my last grocery store run which should have landed in the cashier’s drawer instead of my wallet. And in that moment, an easy-money plan blossomed in my head which involved me claiming I didn’t actually spend $66 [...]
