Too Few Hours In The Day
Just heard a radio interiview with Loung Ung, the author of Lucky Child. The interview was riveting, and the book (and her previous book) looks not only fascinating but vitally important.
Can we split these books up and read them together? Sheesh, who has time for all these great books out there?
Teens and 20s: music. gigs. drinking. rock stars.
30s: academia and reading.
40s: work.
50s: work.
60s: work.
70s: work.
80s: naps and birds.
posted by Teodoro Callate @ 10:56 PM
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For me:
Teens: Make long-term career and life decisions with a profound case of myopia. Listen to Sting records. Grow mullet.
20s: Come to grips with myopia. Develop plan B. Ditch mullet. Academia, marriage, kids, work.
30s: Kids and work. Occassional nap. No birds.
40s: Catch ride on first manned flight to Mars. Unfortunately fail to catch return flight.
50s: Craft interplanetary transponder from aluminum foil and leftover bits of equipment from NASA's Viking mission, found on surface of Mars. Request coffee and a new bathrobe from Earth.
60s: Receive coffee. Bathrobe wrong size. Continue devlopment and construction of "Galaxy Sleep: Mars' Biggest Mattress Store!". Wonder where shoppers are.
70s: Reduce prices on mattresses.
80s: Get first customers, who arrive in craft from distant solar system. Make first sale after agreeing to throw in a set of box springs. Awkwardly struggle to make change for alien currency. Luckily, they agree to submit payment via PayPal.
90s: Appear via transponder as guest on "Coast to Coast AM with George Noory". Sell second mattress and box spring set, this time to a nice couple from Duluth. Collapse at base of Martian crater and breathe my last.
100s: Correspondence arrives from student loan officer. Apparently my last payment was late.
well DONE, sir.
I like that you crafted an interplanetary transponder in order to get some coffee.
The box spring is a nice touch in any mattress sale.
And I'm glad to know I won't be the only one with a galaxy's worth of debt...
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