February 2010
63 posts
Painfully Normal
If we’re being honest, I basically had no friends in high school. It was ok, and really it all worked out in the end just as my grandfather said it would. When I was especially angsty about it all, I remember he told me, “you don’t usually find friends, they find you,” and you know what, he’s been right. Sometimes you just hit your stride at different phases than everyone else.
The day I moved in...
January 2010
29 posts
“Fall down, make a mess, break something occasionally. And remember that the...”
– Conan O’Brien’s Commencement Speech to the Havard Class of 2000
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The Give and The Take
A lot of people will tell you marriage is work. Usually they have 20 years on me, and I’m willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. But I watched a marriage unexpectedly unravel this week and it seems to me that before it fell victim to a lack of commitment, it first was undermined by a loss of love.
I will never understand how two people can come close enough to marry and then be quite so...
“All I ask is one thing - please do not be cynical. I hate cynicism; for the...”
– Very classy, Conan. This is why you are my favorite.
All of this happened today
I endured a sales meeting with Chris Farley’s twin. Heard “Fat Man in a Little Coat” in my head the entire time.
I went swimming after my face when numb from all-day meetings and ate dinner near the beach in Fort Lauderdale. Why can’t this be an option after work every afternoon?
People thought it appropriate to bring a parrot and an iguana to the restaurant and sit next to me. Seriously?
I...
a conversation about life insurance
David: I think we need to get some life insurance for you.
Me: Oh really, why?
David: Because if something happened to you, you'd be dead, I'd be broke, I'd have to go back to work at 4:30 in the morning and that would NOT be cool.
Me: Okkkkk... well maybe we should then. How long do you think you'd be out of work?
David: I'd never want to go back.
Me: You're right, you'd never recover. Oh my god, we need MILLIONS!
