Overexposure is fun.

Today’s soundtrack: I feel the rain and I hear the thunder
Today at 2:02pm: adding Bounce to dryer load


Good things in my life

- non-dairy creamer
- hapkido
- MP3 technology
- the color brown
- 5-speed Volkswagen Golf
- cell phone
- coffee
- cigarettes
- financially timely roommate
- the 6-train

Bad things in my life

- cell phone (possible carcinogen)
- coffee (long-term ill health effects)
- cigarettes (possible carcinogen)
- poor tv reception
- not making enough to put anything away
- sneaker has begun making squeaking noise
- occasional fits of burning hatred/glum depression
- tangled viper’s nest of cables behind my computer

Happy mini-episodes in daily life

- Josephine (not Ann or Jenny or Mohammed) makes my morning coffee exactly right
- step through turnstile just in time to catch train
- boss tied up all day in meetings
- cafeteria at work serving chicken sandwiches
- skillfully depositing the car into a challenging parking space
- finishing writing a story and happy with it
- pretty girl looks at me and smiles
- vigorously shaking orange juice to achieve frothy texture
- oversleeping

Sad mini-episodes in daily life

- woman at korean deli on 49th makes my afternoon coffee too dark
- watching missed train pull away from me
- tying tie on in the mornings
- boss standing over my shoulder, spouting asinine advice
- sitting next to fat sweaty guy on subway
- struggling writing middle of story and feeling it sucks
- pretty girl looks at me and looks away
- running out of orange juice
- headache from oversmoking
- overcooking/undercooking dinner
- oversleeping