Yesterday was my birthday. I turned

• 32

I felt

• miserable

because

• I was stressed at work
• I was indecisive about going to see the Mathew Barney movie, because
• I didn’t want to have to kill the time between getting off work and seeing the movie, which would have entailed
• the claustrophobia of being stuck in a room, in a seat, in a sold out theatre for two hours, with hipsters

Today I bought

• a new bottle of after shave balm which came with a promotional stick of lip balm
• a new shaving brush
• a new bottle of eye drops

I bought these things on my morning break. For my afternoon break I read

• Lee Seigel’s review/historical essay on Norman Mailer’s new book

Norman Mailer and I share a birthday with Justin Timberlake. Justin Timberlake turned

• 26

in Montreal, where he was singing after performing in Toronto on Tuesday. Today is the third anniversary of the infamous wardrobe malfunction.

Justin Timberlake was born three years earlier than Mailer’s age if we begin to count in 1900; that is, 1981. Norman Mailer turned

• 84

because he was born in 1923. If you add two to four you get Justin’s 6 and if you take away six from the eight you get the 2. If you take the the two and three and from Mailer’s birth year and flip them around and you get back to the beginning, which is

• 32