Archive for April, 2008

the gift that keeps on giving
April 30, 2008

A: I need to find a birthday gift for C
B: I’m sure she’d love it if you wrote up an analysis of this mutual fund.
A: that is the gift that keeps on giving, definitel
A: y
B: She actually put me on exactly the kind of thing that I’m good at — a lot of information with [...]

but every graduate student would own one
April 29, 2008

A: I think it would be brilliant if someone repackaged Minima Moralia as a daily devotional — specifically assign dates to it, etc.
B: Or, at teh very least, one of those calendars
B: w/ an aphorism each day
A: A daily pull-off calendar. It’d have to be really small print.
B: Yeah
B: Maybe just the highlights
A: I think [...]

Like an insect.
April 28, 2008

A: I just did some stomach crunches.
A: My anxiety about becoming fat usually lays dormant, but when it strikes, it’s a major event.
B: You have become pretty obsessed w/ this
B: I can’t imagine you a fat person
B: It would be purely gut, wouldn’t it?
A: Yeah, basically.
B: that’s the unfortunate weight distribution
B: I have a good [...]

Weirdly, it was robbing a liquor store.
April 25, 2008

A: A cougar was shot not too far from my house.
B: Wow
B: I didn’t realize there were any cougars in Illinois
A: There was one near C’s place the last couple days — not clear if it’s the same one.
B: it comes into the city for the night life
A: Weirdly, it was robbing a liquor store.
B: [...]

This is a lot of things.
April 24, 2008

A: I drunk-dialed C Friday night, apparently.
A: My ex
B: Wow. You don’t remember doing this
B: ?
A: I DO NOT.
A: In fact, when discussing the night’s events with someone who was also there, I said, “Well, at least I didn’t drunk-dial C.”
B: Wow. That is catastrophic intoxication, when you don’t remember doing things
A: This [...]