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Anon said: I remember when you used to update your blog regularly

I can recall a time when that was my favourite hobby, even.

And, I can remember the day I learned to whistle. I was in the backseat of my aunt's car and my parents were on vacation. I insisted that we call them the moment we got back so I could tell them the news. When we called, I'd forgotten how to whistle again.

And, I can remember just a few weeks ago, walking briskly to my car after the last exam of my last semester of my last year of my degree here at the University of Windsor, and thinking "man, this is it! I never have to come back here again!", and finding a parking ticket on my windshield.

And, I can remember when the parking office was closed for lunch at 10am and thinking about what union and/or cojones they must have.

And, I can remember the first time I ever sleepwalked. I woke up on the porch and had mosquito bites all over.

And, I can remember having discussions which seemed very deep at the time, but weren't.

And, I can remember nights that I thought would last straight through till sunrise, but didn't.

And, I can remember thinking that the Guinness Book of World Records should be vastly expanded so as to allow everybody to be able to say that they're the best at some given thing, even if their record is "longest time spent coming hair before school in September by a boy named Phil".

I remember the time I thought reading the Guinness Book of World Records would give me valuable life experience to be envied by my colleagues and peers.

And, I remember the day we got Max, and how he could sit his entire self in the palms of my hands, he was so little. I remember it was the day we put on the Christmas pageant in seventh grade and I had a minor role whose lines I screwed up but improvised well enough anyway. I remember my parents arguing about not having purchased any film for the camcorder and feeling very relieved that my blunder would not be carried over into videotape immortality.

So yeah, I remember when I used to update my blog daily. I'll get back there, eventually. Honest.

Thanks for the comments: Colin, Ken, Christian Montoya, Ashish, Anon, David Airey, Miche Elle, Min.

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