So I’m having dim sum with John and a cart with pigs red comes along. My father explains to him that it’s a soup made from the blood of a pig, with added onions and other vegetables. With a nonchalant look of surprise, he says, “Essence of pig. That’s definitely not kosher.”

Met someone on the bus back who has some odd coincidences with me. Both of us are Scorpios, and reading books written by authors who won Nobel Prizes in Literature within two years of each other. The person who started at her work around the same time I started at my work ended up being the person I replaced at my current job. Our fathers also both went through their midlife crises in the last two years. Both bought Japanese motorcycles, then bought Porches. Both were Boxters and silver.

I keep finding new white hairs on my head. I’m starting to go slightly grey on the sides like my father, although he started at 15. My hair is still very thick though, while his has thinned significantly. Some see the thick hair as a good thing, but I see it mostly as a hassle. If I don’t condition, it turns coarse. Aaron jokes that it’s my mane, as if girls grab onto it to control me during sex.

I’ve decided to take a trip home today. It’ll just be for the weekend since I have to work on Monday. John has said that I get to decide on plans for the two days we’ll be hanging out. The only sure thing so far is that we’ll be watching Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Jim Carrey in the starring role, Kate Winslet as his attractive girlfriend, written by Charlie Kaufman, how can we not see it

I’ll be taking a single change of clothes home with me, and hopefully bringing back a few more. Ahh, the luxuries of money.

I always eat the banana Runts last.