Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Edited

My birthday is in a couple weeks.

I’ll be 41.

In the words of the great HOGD-MAN:

THAT IS ALL.


*EDITED TO ADD: Specifically, it’s the 10th of June.

** EDITED TO ADD: In lieu of presents, I’d like someone to kick George Lucas in the gonads. Hard.

*** EDITED TO ADD: As a measure of my youth and vitality, my face has decided that I am still 17 and sprouted a veritable forest of acne.

† EDITED TO ADD: Well, it’s not so much a forest as it is one really large, painful and prominent zit.

‡ EDITED TO ADD: It’s on my nose.

†† EDITED TO ADD: Anyway, my point is that though my pores may disagree, I’m not really that stressed about turning 41. A few months after I turned 40, I went through a small, though major and relatively traumatic mental freak-out as I looked back over my life and realized that though my years on earth are probably over halfway spent, I haven’t done anything I considered particularly meaningful, was generally grumpy about how certain things had turned out and a few lingering issues from my youthful upbringing burbled their way up into my awareness. No big deal really, just your standard mid life crisis fodder, though with the added kicker of my having utterly ignored all that stuff over the years and my general disinclination toward self-examination or self-assessment. Denial is not just a river in Egypt, kids. Therapy sucks, though it’s amazingly helpful. And that’s probably all I’ll have to say about that.

‡‡ EDITED TO ADD: Seriously, this zit is taking up half my face now. I have a small mirror here at my desk and it’d be safe to describe this situation as “more zit than nose.”

§ EDITED TO ADD: It’s growing larger. It’s moved beyond my face, is the size of Montana, will soon gain sentience and stride the Earth, raining death and destruction down upon on a cowering mankind. Run for the hills and take cover!

§§ EDITED TO ADD: Tell my family I love them! I go now to a better, hopefully less immensely large zit-filled afterlife.

§§§ EDITED TO ADD: Have a nice day.

Jon scribbled this mess on 05/27/08 at 10:27 AM, best we can tell it fits in the category of Regular Post. This many folks had something to say about that, The permanent home of this entry is here: Link

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