On Friday, AM and RG are leaving for a three-week jaunt around Europe, originally planned with the intention of visiting me in London. I will be housesitting their house on the GC, but I am taking comfort in the concept that maybe the skill of planning is acquired. Because of what happened when they [...]
For four days I have had nothing to do. Not that I am usually saving the world (yet), but I seem to manage to fill the hours between coffee and scotch with frivolous movements that make the hours pass. When I am bedridden, I feel like Superman without his cape. The world is still moving, [...]
Don’t quit smoking. Your body will play very unfriendly games with you. Don’t get Mono. Large necks only suit a very specific bread of Japanese man. And don’t self diagnose. Because, contrary to my popular belief, scotch can’t fix everything. Yes, I have mono. No, I am not impressed about it. Currently, I want [...]
I often make grand declarations and I often refrain from doing so because I have a cigarette in my mouth and can’t speak. This is my catch-22. I know, I would mock me to. But then the cigarette might fall. Last week, I finally made those around me aware (all six of them), that I [...]
Last week, I had my first inclination to quit smoking. Don’t let the fact that I just drove nine minutes through The Bay to buy cigarettes and am currently smoking one fool you. I think that my longest relationship may be coming to an end. Two days ago, I started to announce that I [...]