MY SEXLESS ENEMY: REID #168
Another week on earth... keeping things... smooth
SHORT:
At long last, I got a job.
I got a job, at long last.
MEDIUM:
I am thankful for the aforementioned job, but it means my days of wandering the streets of Brooklyn at 2pm while moaning about how my life sucks are over. And I was getting particularly good at it.
Moaning inside at a desk shielded from the wind doesn’t have the same mouth-feel...
You may be thinking, “Reid, that’s not the right use of the word mouth-feel… the word mouth-feel ‘refers to the sensations that are experienced inside the mouth while eating or drinking1.’ Moaning is not a food nor a drink; in fact, it’s a sound that comes out of u, not in.”
To which I say, “not the way I do it.”
LONG:
Having a job also means returning (from a long, sensual hiatus) to interface with my (sexless) sworn enemy: Google Calendar.
Die-hard Reid fans know that my preferred scheduling method is: one long Word Doc full of everything I need to do thru the end of the year, inexplicably highlighted, bolded, and capitalized per “however I was feeling” when I inputted the information.
It is rightfully and obviously titled “CAL” (and sends shivers down the spines of everyone who went to college with me2).
The best part about CAL is I don’t have to click times and dates or add email addresses to it. I just type “APPLICATION FOR [x] DUE ON [x]!!!!” or “DOCTORS APPOINTMENT!” and check it every five minutes as if something could’ve changed/ try to remember why I made “JAN 8TH 10PM!” bright green and what I’m sort of… supposed to be doing at that time...
On Saturday, to bring myself back to earth, I decided to watch Annie (1999). Jess had never seen it!!!!, and I needed to get my yearly fix of Kristen Chenoweth, Alan Cumming, and Kathy Bates doing a synchronized scoot-scoot-body roll. It’s not as acrobatic as the original Easy Street in which Tim Curry pommel horses a banister, and in these bumpy times? I need smooth.
As teased in the opening photo, we also went to LIGHTSCAPE this weekend — a Disneyland-esque exhibit at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens that was pretty, but there were a lot of strollers, and I was really cold. Snack Of The Week was the apple cider I had during the walk.
That’s really it for this week.
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Reply in the comments with whether u like Apple Cider or Hot Chocolate better and why…
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Sincerely,
Reid Pope
Bonus Jonas Zone:
"It makes no sense, but neither does life, bitch!!!” — me to my a cappella co-leaders who hated watching me scroll thru “CAL” to see if I was free to host a mixer with the MIT Logarhythms when they came to campus.
ok in the past (ie before yesterday) i would’ve been really torn between apple cider and hot chocolate, BUT last night i added an andes mint to my hot choc and it CHANGED THE GAME!! 10 stars