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Thursday, May 8, 2003

So big event today: my brother's graduating from college. Brimming with pride for all the hard work he's done, I made a trip to the store for a card hoping to find something appropriate that would express my esteem. First to note the local card selection is dismal at best, which usually prompts me to make my own (nothin' says lovin' like construction paper and rubber cement, baby!), but I managed to find a one that fit what I was looking for despite most modern greeting card inscriptions reading like either kindergarten nursurey rhymes or motivational quips by a Dr. Phil on crack. I'm perpetually irked that a few words on ethereal, idealistic moral virtues and messages of how we should appreciate the "simple things in life" can cause me to well up and flush and grow weak in the knees, particularly when the best inscription for a greeting card I've ever come up with is rather unconventional (but it gives it a little something, dontcha think?).