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Too Smart

When I was very young, some time around third grade, my teacher must have seen something in me. She requested that I have an I.Q. test administered. My parents didn’t tell me what I scored at the time, but I knew it had to be pretty good because I was immediately placed in a program my school had which was called the “gifted” program.

Jul 23, 2009 (12) More Brain

But its got a compass!

I want a Red Ryder carbine-action, 200-shot, range model air rifle with a compass in the stock, and this thing which tells time.

Jul 13, 2009 (5) More Brain

The jobs no one wants.

Sometimes when I go to Wendy’s, I am met at the drive through window by someone unexpected – a person of middle age. Every single time this happens, which is quite often, I wonder to myself; “How did this person wind up here?”

Jul 10, 2009 (3) More Brain