Just felt the need to say that!
Work is stupid-busy, and also boring, such that all interestingness has been sucked right on out of me.
I can tell you a short story though! Since Mother’s Day is just around the corner, I will tell you a story about my mom. My mom really likes to send me cards. Not just me, I suspect, actually, I am sure that she sends everyone she has ever met almost as many cards as she sends to me. She is a big believer in the thank-you note. (I am not so good at the the thank-you notes for presents, but she did instill in me the compulsion to send thank-you notes for things like interviews, which has served me well. And it gives me an excuse to buy pretty stationary and cards, which I do love. Bob Slate’s – you can thank my mom.) Once, my mom sent me a thank-you card for her Christmas present. A present which, though I was happy to give her, I am also more or less obligated to give her, right?
She also sends cards for every holiday. This is lovely, of course, and very thoughtful, but usually wholly unnecessary, since she only lives an hour away and I’m definitely going to, you know, SEE her on the holiday in question (see: this Easter). The exception is, oddly, Christmas, at which I receive no card. Usually.
I was in CVS the other day, buying a 12-pack of paper towels (I am sick of running out of paper towels, ok?); I walked down the card aisle and figured I would buy and mail my mother a card for Mother’s Day. I figure she will be super-psyched, seeing as how much she likes cards. It is a pretty terrible card though. It was a picture of a cat on it. There is a joke inside about worrying – because mothers WORRY, a lot, you know? Get it?
That’s it! I realize that is sort of an abrupt, rather unfulfilling end to that story. Sorry about that.
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