i'll be leaving the scene of the crime like this

Memory is probably the strangest thing about life. I can remember some of the oddest things from years and years ago, so vividly. Things that are emotionally tied to me and probably always will be. Yet things like what happened last week or last year feel like so long ago to me, lately. It almost feels like amnesia, except that I do remember. Just vaguely. And certain things cannot even be recalled so easily, even if they only happened within the past year. I have to jog my memory, and then I feel pathetic.

It's probably just a sign of age.

Or boredom. I've been so bored lately, which is strange because I have a lot going on, including a great job, a great girlfriend...

Maybe I've been hit on my head. I don't remember that happening, but I probably wouldn't, would I?

I am having a really hard time focusing on anything lately. It's really distracting. I have all these things that I would like to do, and the days just slip away. And the most frustrating part is that I honestly do not know how. What am I doing all day?

It's been ten days since I turned 37. Edgar Allen Poe would have turned 201 ten days ago, if it wasn't improbable to live that long. Three years till I'm the age he was when he died.

I share a birthday with the coolest person, ever.

I just realized something.

THE MACY'S THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE

is going to be happening soon

and I'm actually in New York to see it UP CLOSE!


Lucy, do you have plans?

Gus, does that come anywhere near us?? Do you know?

I need to learn how to play an instrument. What's a good instrument to learn to play?

Please tell me that at least one of you is having a Halloween party this year! Anyone in New York? And would you mind if I came?

I really wish I could throw one, but the apartment's not quite clean eno big enough.

My mom tracked me down. She wants me to go back to Boston. I told her I'd pay her a visit, but I'm worried she's going to guilt me into moving back. She said she's worried someone will take advantage of me.

I mean, I worry about that too. But I'm not stupid. And I love it here.

Only one hundred and ten days until Halloween!

If you came to New York and met me, you'd be looking at the new manager of Hot Topic.

They told me that I was promoted because I am enthusiastic about everything. :D I can't dispute that. They're nicer here than at the one in Boston. They didn't like my enthusiasm.

Halloween is only four months away. Can you believe it?? I think I'm gonna love being the manager on Halloween especially.

Today, I invented a game. You have to have a globe to play it. It’s especially fun if you have a topographical globe because it’s bumpy. Anyway, you spin the globe and stop it with your finger. Whatever place your finger lands on, you write down. Repeat 13 times.

Then you go to those places.

I don’t really know how you win, but I landed on Romania and that’s pretty much a prize in itself, isn’t it?