*02.04.02 mediocrity rules


joe gave me samuel johnson is indignant for christmas on saturday; i hadn't heard of it.
BORING FRIENDS


We know only four boring people. The rest of our friends we find very interesting. However, most of the friends we find interesting find us boring: the most interesting find us the most boring. The few who are somewhere in the middle, with whom there is reciprocal interest, we distrust: at any moment, we feel, they may become too interesting for us, or we too interesting for them.


(lydia davis)
twelve of 101 WAYS TO COPE WITH STRESS, a pet's rest refrigerator magnet from work:


- anticipate your needs
- avoid negative people
- avoid chemical aids
- repair anything that doesn't work properly
- visualize yourself winning
- tell someone to have a good day in pig latin
- don't know all the answers
- ask someone to be your "vent-partner"
- keep a journal
- quit trying to "fix" other people
- leave work early (with permission)
- practice a monster smile
he's now reading the playboy i spirited from the bathroom at the super bowl party yesterday. i'd never seen one before, not in an actual house.

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