Am I blogging...or am I pitching my existence?
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Monday, August 02, 2004 The Pitch: It's like Chicken Run meets Iris! I lost my eggs.Sadly--or, now that I think of it, happily--this is not a euphemism. I came in to work this morning, and found the place so crazed I jumped in and started slogging away early. About half an hour ago, when it quieted down a little I started looking for the two hard-boiled eggs I had brought in for breakfast. The deli bag was empty. No egg-shaped objects on my desk, or the empty desk adjacent. No eggs on the floor. I looked once or twice in the kitchen--no luck. I had a dim memory of rolling them somewhere. The eggs were very hot, I remember, because the deli I had purchased them from had just boiled them. Thankfully, I finally remembered. I had cleverly rolled each egg into a plastic cup, filled the cup with cold water, and left the eggs to cool in the sink. Then I went to my desk, things got crazy, and all fragile fleeting memory departed. I'm kinda bummed to report that my eggs were still in their plastic cups in the sink just now when I went to go get them. I hope they at least caused somebody some consternation upon seeing them. Would it be easy to figure out what two eggs, each sitting in their own clear plastic cup filled with water, were doing in the sink? Would someone think it was voodoo? A surrealist commentary on working in a big law firm? Or would they just worry that somebody was going nuts? Last night, I was walking down to the corner Italian joint with Edi after driving back from Humboldt County (details--and pictures--of which are hopefully coming to this space soon), I couldn't think of a very simple word and, because I would like to write some day, I found this very, very troubling. So the eggs in their cups, I'm no longer worried about my distintegrating writing talent, I worry about my withering ability to survive in the world. Losing one's eggs is no peeing in Yuban cans, but it's a start. God help me, it's a start. posted by Jeff Lester | 12:24 PM | |
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