Mighty Life List
Jul 31 2001

Have you ever been mesmerized by your monitor, so deep in concentration that you can’t look away? And say you needed Chapstick while the monitor glowed seductively. Would you reach into your desk drawer blindly and feel around until you found it? OK, good. Now how close would you actually come to applying the glue stick to your lips?

6:24 p.m.

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Jul 31 2001

Graffito on the train: “No fear of Funk.”

10:17 a.m.

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Jul 27 2001

Brief conversation with a girl whose name is a noun:

Me: Hi, I’m Maggie.

Her: I’m Jubilee.

Me: What a happy name.

Her: You think so?

Me: Yeah, like, celebration, party…

Her: Huh. I guess I never thought about it that way.

10:21 a.m.

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Jul 26 2001

I was having a pleasant afternoon, when I grabbed some Chinese food for lunch and my fortune cookie ambushed me, “You lead a double life and enjoy pretending to be something you are not.” Youch. I know fortune cookies rarely tell your fortune, but when did they start telling you off?

2:45 p.m.

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Jul 25 2001

“Traditionally, the same actor plays Captain Hook and Mr. Darling.”

The Picture Book of Peter Pan (c. 1930)

Does anyone else think that’s creepy?

2:30 p.m.

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