July 8, 2010

A dear college friend (maybe not the most objective judge) told me she likes "the auto-bioey-ness of the blog." So—special for her:

THINGS I DID TODAY*

by Short Round, age 32

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These include:

• watching a lot of Parks & Recreation on Hulu
• coming up with Parks & Rec and 30 Rock ideas for the TV-writing class I'm taking at UCLA
• getting word that a director "loves" the screenplay my writing partner and I wrote
• playing a not very involved game of fetch on a Southern California patio with a mostly blind dog with his head in one of those plastic cones
• doing a little of the transcription work I recently started in exchange for the promise of American currency (worth roughly 16 times less per hour than the tutoring work I did back in Manhattan)
• cooking and consuming eggs and bacon
• making and consuming a salad (baby spinach, cherry tomatoes, garlic salt)
• cooking and consuming linguine with Newman's Own Sockarooni™ sauce,†
• reading a little of my friend's script (at the breakfast table)
• reading a little Bloom County‡ (on the toilet)
• attending that TV-writing class at UCLA
• meeting up with a close friend for a late-night drink and deep conversation

...but do not include:

• showering
• exercising
• getting a steady job

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* It's a little after 1 a.m. Friday (PDT): I still call Thursday "today" because I haven't been to sleep yet. I mean, gimme a break.

† I wish I could say that this amount of food preparation is normal for me. It is not.

‡ I used to love that shit when I was like 10 years old—and I was right: it's good!