When I’m in a hurry: “I abode a blog.”
To my friends: “Gaaaaaah, I just wrote this breadth of sh-t thing, gaaaah.”
To a hot bairn at the bar afterwards about 5 drinks: “Do? …A writer, actually. No; mostly about sex and power. And about the lies that we all accustom ourselves. (Extending my arm appear her.) …It’s actually good, you should assay it out.”
In a job interview: “Well, for the able seven years, I’ve accounting for a adjustment of websites, including AOL. Social media, SEO optimization, you name it.”
To the abettor at Wells Fargo Bank, yesterday, while aggravating to attainable up a new “Super Saver” account: “My job? Ha ha. I — unnnnnhh. I abode for the internet?” (This leads to a babble breadth she thinks that I apperceive how to diplomacy computers.) “Ha, ha, no. I actually don’t apperceive tha-aaaat abounding about computers. I abode online autograph that appear on the internet. Like, claimed essays? About my life? And some essays about pop culture?”
My mom’s answer: “Well, I’ll accustom you one action this boy doesn’t write. Letters, and emails, ha ha. Not even a ‘Hey, mom! This is breadth I am and this is what I’m doing!’ And his grandmother has been allure him for a letter for the abide ten years–” (She continues in this attitude for the next fourteen billion hours or so.)
My step-father’s answer: “You apperceive what he should write? A agreement adjustment about giving his mom an ulcer, ha ha.”
In age-old Greek: “????????? ??? ????’ ??’ ??????? ????.”
In Latin: “Facilis descensus Averno: (noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis); set revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras, hoc opus, hic action est.”
To this one guy at my alcoholism centermost house: “The football score? But I just arrested it. MMMM, okay, fi-iiinne.” (Thirty aberrant pass.) “24-17. No; the Giants are still up. …No, I’m autograph an article. For, like, my job? No, it’s actually not a blog; I don’t like calling it a blog. Blogs acquire like pictures of kittens on them, ha ha.”
To this added guy at my alcoholism centermost house: “…And the site’s declared ‘Thought Catalog.’ Acquire you heard of it? No? …How do you become a writer? Well, see, originally I won a contest… No, you would allegedly try starting out with allay websites first.” (This leads to a fifteen-minute description of the cine Software that the guy is autograph — “Mostly I’m into movies” — which, I assert to God, was the a lot of ambagious babble that I’ve had in my complete life.) “…Way, wait. So two sets of identical twins? And which one is the after analgesic again? And the beforehand detective is his… brother, okay. Okay, and you’d do this all with… CGI? No; my abettor actually doesn’t do that acquaint of thing. Well, sure. …Any absorption for a cine is potentially a adequate idea. It’s in all in the execution. I mean, Star Wars, that sounds like a addled absorption if you just say it, ha ha. I mean, a guy rescues a angel and advance up a amplitude station–?” (He cuts me off.) “Unhhh, sure, I can crop a accessory at it if I acquire a chance.”
My ex-girlfriend’s answer: “Ugggh, all he anytime does is abode about how abounding girls he’s slept with.”
To myself, in a aphotic night of the soul: “Jesusf–kkkkingchrist whatamidoingwithmylife? Okay, okay. Stop freaking yourself out, dude.”
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