Summary of 2019: Returned from Christmas in Canada with the flu. First real flu since high school. January: so sick I finally decide to try light pilates at the end of the month in case lethargy and depression are causing this flu/backache. Can’t really digest any food, quit meat. February: still have the flu. Kick it. One of my best girlfriends gets diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer. Decide it’s time to see a doctor. I’m down to steamed vegetables,…
Yesterday the phone rang while I was in the middle of a research project. Looking over at the dreaded call display I said to myself, I do not know Toby J********* therefore I shan’t be answering that. Half an hour later I noticed there was a voicemail, leaving me to assume someone was trying to get me to shampoo the carpets again. Isn’t it interesting how they can now call under fake numbers so it looks like they’re local but…
Last night the pizza delivery guy showed up around 9:30 just as a sore throat claimed my last coherent moments of December 30, 2017. I walked outside barefoot because old habits die hard and he was wandering in the street like a lost dog looking from the receipt on the bag to the sky like wtf is this place. Yes sir, I feel you. I’m not going to give a moment, a breath, a keystroke to talking about the person…
Just before sundown tonight I was sitting in my office when the Asian kid across the street lost his everloving shit and kicked his pumpkins all over into the street. There I was, typing away at my computer, when I noticed in the mirror of my screen the kid watching me from his front stoop. I turned around to look and sure enough eyeball emoji staring back. Oh no Michael Myers you have a full 24 ’til go time and…