From the Archives

Apparently I went through a phase where I would write down the most notable events of my day.

Apparently my life is really boring.

Day 1:

-I looked up Antwerp. It is in Belgium.

-I read T.S. Eliot: A poem about a dead aunt, another about laughter tinkling among tea cups, and another about a cousin Nancy who trampled on hills and danced modern dances.

-Talked to NiCole about going garage sailing this weekend. Also thrift stores are to be visited.

-Ate oatmeal with cranberries and raisins.

-Look up: defunctive, inane, the usage of the word digress, miasma, ague, enervate

Day 2:

Today: Mario sang School House Rock’s ‘Conjunction Junction’ while dancing the robot. He then proceeded to flicker the lights in the front office while rattling a folder.

Criz: “What’s that supposed to be? It sounds like an Altoid box being shaken.’
Mario: “It’s thunder.
Criz: “Oh, cool!”
Mario: “It sounds a little more realistic when you use a sheet of cookies.”
Criz: ?
Mario: “A baking sheet.”
Mario: ”So is it cold in Colorado about a fourth of the time?”
Criz: “Mmm..maybe a little more, especially up north.”
Mario: “In Conjunction?”
Criz: “Grand Junction?”
Mario: “Oh, I had conjunction junction on the brain.”

-Looked up ‘bunk’ and it turns out it is short for the Americanism, ‘bunkum’ which came “after the speech in 16th Congress, 1819–21, by F. Walker, who said he was bound to speak for Buncombe (N.C. county in district he represented).”

-Called Biola, left messages

Day 3:

-Crazy 65 year-old man in a windbreaker came into the office to buy a transcript: bushy white hair, bushy white beard, one blue eye, one eye completely white. His name was Eldon.

-Eldon tried to pay for transcript with Turkish currency.

-Eldon also said Social Security is a punishment, or as he referred to it, a rape---a rape because it’s forced on you. Those were his words.

Day 4:

-Listened to Ella Fitzgerald

-Got stressed out from entering too many payments and writing too many receipts

-Ate too many Lindor truffles

-Wondered if today was a day of excess