So I was going to put up a little message saying that I was busy this summer and that I would not have time to write (also, as busy as my life is, none of it seems interesting enough to right about). I make mention of this to my girlfriend and she responds, “You have time to write!! If you have time to watch Strongbad and eat tater tots then you have time to write!”
I don’t know if I believe her, but that’s what I have to write about.

I can post this while sitting in my car in my driveway. Right now, sitting in my car, listening to Radiohead (The Bends) and posting on my website.
I know you are thinking there is a story behind this. There is. It isn’t interesting.
I am so easily amused.

Couple months ago I realized I had forgotten to renew my subscription to Scientific American. Over the years I have let all my subscriptions lapse, Bon Appetit, Gourmet, Martha Stewart, Highlights, but good old SciAm is like a sweet lover who comes to me monthly and leaves me filled with dirty thoughts on evolution and space travel.
shiver
So yeah, I let it lapse. I didn’t mean to. Just slipped my mind. I renewed as soon as I could, but happened to miss two months.
Today I came home to find those two issues waiting for me in my mailbox. I did not request these two issues, they just showed up.
SciAm is a reticent, quiet lover, but he’s thoughtful and when it comes down to it, that’s exactly what we need.

HI ETHAN!!!!

Oh man, I am sitting here at the coffee shop right now (how mobile am I tonight? Too mobile!) and I am surrounded by these super squeaky clean college girls simultaneously having General Foods International Coffee moments!
I keep expected one of them to ask for another Suisse Mocha or some dumb shit like that.
Also, there is a guy in scrubs (fake) reading a paperback novel and grinning this weird drooly grin.
And Crazy Mary seems to have fewer teeth than before.
On the other hand, the guy with the ultra-slim laptop is kind of cute.