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I Thought I Would Have Accomplished a Lot More Today and Also by the
Time I Was Thirty-Five

By Alex Baia

August 25, 2020

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Is it 2 P.M. already? Ugh. I've done nothing today. I woke up,
stretched, saw that I had six voice mails, ignored them, showered,
ate three waffles, and then felt annoyed that I'm thirty-five and
still don't speak French. Wait, hang on. I didn't shower. That was
yesterday.

I tried to buy some Converse Chuck Taylors online, but I couldn't
choose between gray and obsidian, because I disliked them equally.
Then I got distracted by life-hack articles on Medium for ninety
minutes. I'm thirty-five! I thought I would've purchased cool shoes
by now, and been in a movie. My improv-troupe mate Sanjay was in that
indie horse movie. He's crushing it.

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