Funny how a song can pull me back in time.

Surrender to the status quo is a shitty campaign platform that isn't going to get people to vote¹

Driving through Old Town Pasadena, my iPod plays the first track of the album "Wish" by The Cure and suddenly it's the summer between my sophomore year and junior year in high school again, and I'm feeling nostalgic about all that existential angst.

so I spent part of my weekend in nyc screwing around with b's computer, which was completely infested by spyware and viruses and all sorts of irritating, memory-consuming, surreptitiously installed programs. the computer is on the verge of complete unuseability. my advice was simply to wipe the hard drive and reinstall windows xp. this is, after all, the favorite piece of advice given by anyone who does win xp tech support. but this would require backing up the hard drive, which would inquire purchasing a hard drive, and in the freezing temperature at this time, this wasn't a palatable option.

Existential crisis #7