When a DJ says the next track is by request, they’re lying 99% of the time. We just make up names to make it sound like we’re engaged with the audience. The request line is often just put on hold so that callers think we’re being slammed with calls and not just ignoring them. Every market I’ve worked in has done this. Every. Market.
“Then the worst happened, that big, dark, hunky boy, the only one there huge enough for me, who had been hunching around over women, and whose name I had asked the minute I had come into the room, but no one told me came over and was looking hard in my eyes and it was Ted Hughes.”
The first time you tell them your biggest, darkest secret and they listen and kiss you on the cheek and say thank you for telling them and you’re all, wait, why was I so worried about telling them that?
6. You sparkled in the interview. You did this because you were excited about the prospect of working for the company and you actually like this kind of work.
…the gram of heroin in my hand snaps me back to reality with a force that I wasn’t expecting…
You made my blood rush, my head pound, my stomach go numb. No one else did that for me, to me. I wanted you to be wrapped up in me.
I was putting my son to bed when he was about 5, and after the bedtime story, right when I was tucking him in and turning out the light, he said “Nipples. I love ’em. What about you?” with this totally serious expression.
1. The two of you have broken up, gotten back together, broken up, and gotten back together so many times that you have lost count.
Adderall has gained a reputation for making you “limitless.” I’ve even heard it called legal meth, or legal cocaine.
I posted “50 Rules for Sons” in anticipation of my son Stephen’s graduation from high school. This year I am posting my “50 Rules for Daughters” for Sophie, 17 years old, and Hallie, 13 years old.
I’m sharing the things that I’ve learned throughout this process because I wish someone had been there to teach me these things beforehand, and perhaps this can act as a guide for the next time you find yourself building a new nest.
It’s seeing their flaws — the surface ones, the silly ones, the painful ones, the permanent ones — and respecting, loving, challenging, and accepting them, respectively.
