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My Day So Far · Thriving While Dying

• 0:02
  SPEAKER_00: Worry is my first name, although if that was really true, some of the Catholic charities in Springfield would have changed it to purify my identity.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_00: For both practical and aesthetic reasons, I bristle at wetness.
• 0:33
  SPEAKER_00: My second name is fear and its friendly counterpart fearlessness.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_00: I am scared of chipmunks, non-dairy ice cream, romantic novels and films, Greenland soccer, cars with one headlight, flip phones, and squeaking grocery carts.
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_00: For reasons that I can't explain, I am not afraid of serpents taking out the trash, medium-sized trees, LED lighting, or three-wheeled bicycles.
• 1:02
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not quite ready for the soul searching to figure these things out.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_00: I have multiple personalities, all of which are more or less true.
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_00: At least one is completely false.
• 1:13
  SPEAKER_00: Deer hunter, century cyclist, magician, listener, loyalist, record scratcher, scrapbooker, firewood collector.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_00: My best conversations are when I can combine them all in one rich stew.
• 1:29
  SPEAKER_00: I had coffee recently with a friend.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_00: We covered the following topics in 70 minutes.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_00: Nonprofit fundraising, cognitive loss, dog prostate cancer, the importance or lack of importance of travel, private high schools, homeless versus unhoused, dessert quality, queer hangouts in town, sleeping with men and women concurrently, chance meetings with folks we wanted to call, people cancer, neurodivergence, cats, changing oil yourself or farming it out.
• 2:05
  SPEAKER_00: I moved with agility from topic to topic and interjected some additional mastery in between the spaces.
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_00: Take that, supposed history teacher, Mr.
• 2:14
  SPEAKER_00: Scully, who wrote on my first Oberlin College paper, go to writing lab right now.
• 2:21
  unknown: Ah.
• 2:22
  SPEAKER_00: The day continues, more stick pickup, more cycling on a bike to nowhere, more worry about dusk and its effects, less worry about buying a power washer or the need to fill a hole in the driveway.
• 2:35
  SPEAKER_00: Definitely more genial.
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_00: Three popsicles lined out for blast off.
• 2:40
  SPEAKER_00: Bongenet.