: About Me

My passion is ...

writing and long-distance running

I know too much about ...

biology

My parents always told me ...

go outside to play and don't collect any more honeybees

My childhood ambition ...

was to be an archaeologist

My favorite memory ...

too numerous too count

Why I write ...

it's an incredible inner compulsion

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Lilith, Catch-22, Deuteronomy/I don't watch tv/and rarely listen to the radio

My first job ...

was a cook in a Mexican restaurant

My inspiration ...

The Inklings

Creative Writing > Humor Humor: Work

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My co-worker, Dan, was excited about his band's newest CD called 'Untitled Track #1' which consists of long stretches of silence interspersed with random background noise. Dan is a gifted musician of sorts and although his CD is nothing short of genius, it's not selling as well as he'd expected. I told him new genres in art take take to develop and some, well, take very long to develop. But Dan has hope. . .lots of hope and little change. "Lunch is on me," I said He smiled and said, "Thanks." And explained how he has converted his bathroom into a small aquaculture facility to make ends mee...

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