I quit smoking"Wanna hear my new favorite song?"
I unplug my headphones to play it aloud on the laptop.
"Isn't that from two years ago?"
"Is it?"
"And it was in a car commercial."
"Wait," I said, "your landlord's name is Akbar?"
"Yeah."
"Like Admiral Akbar?"
"Yeah."
"That is so cool. I wish my landlord had a Star Wars name."
"It's like that magazine we were looking at my place."
"Caryn! You're there," she said over the conference call.
"Yup, I'm still here."
"We didn't know where you went. We were calling your name over and over a little while ago."
"Oh. ... I think I might have fallen asleep for a little bit."
"Thank you for being a big mush."
I laugh.
"I'm a big mush too," he says. "I just don't leak like that."
I give him a sarcastic smile and dab under my eyes with a cocktail napkin.
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Friday, June 16, 2006
"Hi Dad."
"Hey Caryn!"
"I was talking to Mom and she said you guys were trying to get in touch with me online."
"Yeah! We were looking at the pictures of the animals. Did Mom tell you what she's doing with them?"
"Yeah, she's donating them."
"But did she tell you who they're going to?"
"Children in Iraq."
"We got to talking about Zizzer."
"I told her to keep him."
"I remember a piece you wrote about him, about how mean I was to Zizzer."
"I did?"
"Yeah. It almost moved me to tears."
"It did?"
"It did."
"Daddy, I'm so sorry but I don't remember writing that. Maybe it was a descriptive essay I wrote in high school or something?"
"Could be. That's when I knew. You wrote something that got me emotional, and I knew you were a writer."
"Aw, thanks Dad."
"Hey Caryn!"
"I was talking to Mom and she said you guys were trying to get in touch with me online."
"Yeah! We were looking at the pictures of the animals. Did Mom tell you what she's doing with them?"
"Yeah, she's donating them."
"But did she tell you who they're going to?"
"Children in Iraq."
"We got to talking about Zizzer."
"I told her to keep him."
"I remember a piece you wrote about him, about how mean I was to Zizzer."
"I did?"
"Yeah. It almost moved me to tears."
"It did?"
"It did."
"Daddy, I'm so sorry but I don't remember writing that. Maybe it was a descriptive essay I wrote in high school or something?"
"Could be. That's when I knew. You wrote something that got me emotional, and I knew you were a writer."
"Aw, thanks Dad."
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Thursday, June 01, 2006
39 Pages I wrote in my diary
7 Nights spent away from home
2 Nights spent on Fire Island
1 Bottle of wine I finished off while sunning on the back deck
5 Deer I saw in the backyard while drunk
3 Nights spent in Springfield, MA
12 Gluten-free beers I hauled to Springfield
4 Times Ozzie wanted to pee in my suitcase
1 Letter I wrote complaining about poor service
1 Free session I got at said establishment
4 Games of Settlers played
1 Game of Settlers won
1 Massage received
4 Minutes aired of an audio comment I left for a podcaster I like
1 Reading attended at Barnes & Noble
2 Friends I saw graduate
1 Night in a hot tub in a friend's canopied backyard in the West Village
1 Web site set up with WordPress
1 Email submission form written in PHP
18 Hours I spent on all that
3 Science lectures attended
1 Movie seen at the theater [1]
2 Hours of a kickass Lost finale
2 Times I've watched Lost finale
45 Questions I have about Lost finale
1700 Dollars my credit limit was raised
8 Years since I last got a limit increase
1 Book club meeting
3 Hours spent shopping for new summer clothes
6 Hours spent altering new summer clothes
1 Ego-bruising email received
4 Hours it took me to get over it
1 Enjoyable evening of experimental theater
0 Level of understanding of what went on
2 People I made out with
6 Workouts at the gym
56 Text messages sent
50 Text messages received
2 Ideas for books I could write
5 Episodes of TV shows bought on iTunes
4 Songs bought on iTunes
123 Times I've played Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy"
32 Songs added to my iTunes that were not purchased
22 Pictures uploaded to Flickr
3 Parties attended
1 Party hosted
5 Mylar balloons I saw float into the sky from the elevated subway platform
7 Nights spent away from home
2 Nights spent on Fire Island
1 Bottle of wine I finished off while sunning on the back deck
5 Deer I saw in the backyard while drunk
3 Nights spent in Springfield, MA
12 Gluten-free beers I hauled to Springfield
4 Times Ozzie wanted to pee in my suitcase
1 Letter I wrote complaining about poor service
1 Free session I got at said establishment
4 Games of Settlers played
1 Game of Settlers won
1 Massage received
4 Minutes aired of an audio comment I left for a podcaster I like
1 Reading attended at Barnes & Noble
2 Friends I saw graduate
1 Night in a hot tub in a friend's canopied backyard in the West Village
1 Web site set up with WordPress
1 Email submission form written in PHP
18 Hours I spent on all that
3 Science lectures attended
1 Movie seen at the theater [1]
2 Hours of a kickass Lost finale
2 Times I've watched Lost finale
45 Questions I have about Lost finale
1700 Dollars my credit limit was raised
8 Years since I last got a limit increase
1 Book club meeting
3 Hours spent shopping for new summer clothes
6 Hours spent altering new summer clothes
1 Ego-bruising email received
4 Hours it took me to get over it
1 Enjoyable evening of experimental theater
0 Level of understanding of what went on
2 People I made out with
6 Workouts at the gym
56 Text messages sent
50 Text messages received
2 Ideas for books I could write
5 Episodes of TV shows bought on iTunes
4 Songs bought on iTunes
123 Times I've played Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy"
32 Songs added to my iTunes that were not purchased
22 Pictures uploaded to Flickr
3 Parties attended
1 Party hosted
5 Mylar balloons I saw float into the sky from the elevated subway platform
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