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Hypothetically
If, just a few weeks ago, I had contemplated my life goals, and named among them “play at Six Flags and have Bugs Bunny come up and jam on the timbales,” I could die today a happy man.
Obligations
I feel as though around now I have a few obligations that I should be dealing with. For starters, it’s the end of the month, and with no new posts thus far, I feel obligated to at least keep June 2007 on the radar in the archives. (In the event you happen now to be browsing the archives looking for interesting reading material, I apologize.)
If not for the lack of posts, I should probably feel obligated to note that effective sometime this morning until about the 16th of July, I will be off on tour, exploring a musical endeavor and honing my musical abilities. It promises to generate many memories, few (if any) of which will probably be recounted here, primarily for reasons of privacy and of laziness; I do not expect to have Internet access while away.
And even if not for the above two points, I should feel obliged to point out my graduation of about a week ago. And the fact that I gave a speech, an earlier revision of which was inexplicably distributed and printed in two local papers1. And maybe even the fact that one of those papers (the “better” one), for some reason, threw in a quote that never appeared anywhere in my speech, was never used in any interview (none took place), and was not even necessarily substantiated by the contents of the speech itself2.
For the interested, I do supply a complete (and accurate) version of my speech below, and although doing so runs the risk of having my every alteration questioned and analyzed excessively, it’s a chance I’ll take. However, as the clock would suggest, I do not have the time nor the energy to document the differences between the different versions of my speech myself, or more thoroughly lambaste those responsible for these journalistic oversights. I do, after all, have packing to do.
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- To be truthful, it is not so inexplicable–the principal forwarded the draft copy I sent him to these papers, and although one of the papers received the final version before press time, it did not, for some reason, appear in its correct form there either. So inexplicable, no–unpleasant, however, yes. [↩]
- This phenomenon, it seems, was not limited to my case–it appeared that the author of the article demonstrated an aptitude for created quotes that read more like first-person paraphrases than, say, actual quotes. [↩]
