Archive for August, 2001

The Miseducation of Jeb: Kindergarten

Sunday, August 19th, 2001

(With apologies to Laryn Hill)
Even before I’d begun attending kindergarten I was ecstatic about the prospects it posed. All I knew was that it involved a lot of fun and interaction with other kids my age. Given that I spent most of my hours only hanging around my parents and a slightly psychotic cat which […]

Dot Com: The Musical

Wednesday, August 8th, 2001

(Curtain rises. An open plan office filled with flat-screen monitors and workers - average age 23 - clad mostly in grunge band t-shirts buzz around the stage. Lights dim and spotlights shine on a group of four business development workers in a meeting room, clad in suits. Gloomy music from the strings section of the […]

Cramps

Sunday, August 5th, 2001

The purpose of my day away from work was to recover from a mysterious stomach illness, but this ended up proving to be the least of my worries.
Splayed semiconscious on the lounge, drooling into a novel and foot firmly in a half-consumed bowl of cereal on the floor; I awaken groggily to discover my right […]

Stealing Biscuits

Thursday, August 2nd, 2001

Hurtling through the automatic doors of the convenience store on a mission for salty snacks and any other munchies which would ease my wheezing body along to it’s inevitably cholesterolic climax, I immediately collided with a character who looked like he was ready to rape me with the bottle of Coke grasped in his left […]