Me: I am a nice a guy. I’d hate to have to meet you in court.
Him: My lawyer’s a professor of law at Columbia. She’ll tear you apart.
Me: She’s just another lawyer. I’m something she’s not.
Him: What’s that?
Me: I’m right. See you in court. (hang up phone)
Since I wanna keep some of my private life private, didn’t tell you that I was in another lawsuit.
If the past three years have taught me anything, it’s that most people’re a lotta talk. But Woody Allen once said that Eighty percent of success is showing up. So I showed up.
It just finished. Won’t get into details but it ended up a lot more my way than his.
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Had my date with my lady. Ended up playing boardgames at my fave local dive bar – they got candy at every table, lots of boardgames and few meatheads. My kinda joint.
Been running about, ever in pursuit of scratch. Meetings, meetings, meetings. Nice though, not having to run the show. Not saying I’d never run my own company again, but am saying that it’ll be a while before I do it again.
Just signed up for onea those rent-a-car-by-the-hour programs cause I had to sell my whip.
The inexorable march of time. Suppose 36’s as good an age as any to grow up. Kinda.
Her: Why won’t this work?!
Me: Lemme see. (condescendingly) Honey, you put in the battery in the wrong way.
Her: Oh yeah? Well, at least I didn’t put on my pants backwards.
Me: (looking down)
Her: Shyeah…put that in your blog. (laughs)
Me: (muttering) Dammit…
Location: my desk
Mood: hungry
Music: life’s too short for me to stop Oh baby
4 replies on “Showing up”
You shoulda replied to her, "Kris Kross'll make ya…do some crazy shit like putting your pants on backwards.."teehee!
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