follow-up

so i know i didn't post the link to the earlier-mentioned David Foster Wallace Kenyon College Commencement speech, and i still won't, because i kind of feel like it might be illegal since it's a book now (and you really can't find too many links for it since they have all been removed due to the book's publication). i'm just posting about it again to reiterate that you should read it. and if that means coming to my house, sitting on our purple couch and reading our copy of it, then do that. my dad bought it the other day and everyone here has read it twice through so far at least.

i'm on summer mode! this is a new sort of summer mode, since i'm not doing any sports (no 6am swim team, no afternoon soccer, no running, no workout.... this will start to be bad in a few days). this new sort of summer mode entails never leaving my bed.

until someone shows up at my door because i get so excited to see people that i leap out of bed to greet them. so come over and read our copy of This Is Water!

i'm thinking now, to myself: this isn't realistic. the whole point of internet is you get to communicate with people in not-the-same-area as you. so the likelihood of my request/demand is... not very big. so snag a copy of This Is Water, and be really genuinely excited to see all the people around you. and that will have the same effect.