Wins and shady secrets
My father died exactly four years ago. It feels like yesterday and a lifetime ago.
I talk a lot with older male friends about what it’s like being a father, I think – in part – because I can’t talk to my dad.
It’s less than ideal.
If wishes were horses…
The boy’s been away for a few weeks and will be for a few weeks more.
While I miss him terribly, it’s good because I’ve been coming home at midnight most nights because Chad and I are setting up this new gym.
I’ll tell you more about it once it’s all set up.
Last Saturday, NYC had the most rain it’s ever had in a single hour and I’m happy to say that my apartment did NOT flood, although it came pretty close a few times there.
It was super stressful, but now I know that the things I did to help the situation worked.
I’ll take any win I can get
I’ve become a shady secret again, this time to four different women – not all of them romantic interests, but all have their own reasons for wanting me not to mention them.
Which is a shame because some of the stuff they say is truly amusing. Here are some rando convos, completely out of context.
Her: (to waiter) Do you have something like a Corona Light?
Me: (to her, after) Wait, why didn’t you just ask for a Corona Light?
Her: I’ve been disappointed too many times in the past.
Her: How’s the gym going?
Me: We’re moving at lightning speed so I’m exhausted.
Her: You’re the knife instructor?
Me: Technically, I’m the backup knife instructor.
Her: Oh, you should tell people that you’re a substitute knife instructor.
Me: How’s online dating going?
Her: I like to think of it as, Meeting-strangers-online-to-waste-three-weeks-of-my-life-with-at-a-time.
Me: Accurate.
Remember when I told you that the Heiress had the same type of cancer as Alison? Welp, I was just introduced to yet another woman with this fucking cancer.
She’s asking me for help/advice and – while I don’t want to relive the past – I have to help, I feel. And so, I do.
Again, this type of cancer mainly affect older, white, males. This woman is the third young white female I’ve met that had it.
It’s madness.
Then again, I’m finding that either madness tends to find me, or I tend to find it. Not sure which one is which.
Had lunch with a business associate of mine as well as dinner with another friend of mine.
They each offered me a job in two radically different fields of work. One was a high six-figure a year job, the other a very low five-figure a year job.
Both jobs have their charms.
Him: What are you gonna do?
Me: (shrugging) Not sure. In the end, I suppose all I really want is to raise my son and have a family.
Him: You can’t have it all?
Me: Have it all? (sighing) Clearly, not. If wishes were horses…
Him: …beggars would ride.
Me: (nodding)
Location: not Union Square, lemme tell ya that
Mood: busy, busy, busy
Music: I lost my mind trying to fix broken things (Spotify)
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