I'm writing a lot. Well, yeah, I'm sorry to hear that, but I'm excited for you. I mean I

appreciate that like other people do their job a lot too. And maybe I'm really like I'm really peeling back the curtain here when I say I really only do my job a lot when I have to.

Yeah, I think you know what I appreciate that but I would be a disaster if I, you know,

you know, I think I am a disaster as you know I am a disaster again as you know everyone I have a book do and I have this

very bad way of doing my job that I don't recommend where I do all the work at the end.

Yeah, you do.

And, you know, I think I've said this before.

Some people do all the work a little bit of the time, yeah.

I remember the first year that we were friends and you did this and I was like, oh boy,

she's just so slammed and then the next year I was like, oh, self-inflicted.

Right, and you know.

Then I was like, sympathetic, but in a different way. When Eric was very young he did a lot of he

worked in tech support which seems like it would be you know terrible terrible in

general just a lot of like telling people to reboot their computer.

And apparently there is a tech support term called Pebkak and it means problem exists between keyboard and chair.

Yes, and I often think about it when I'm this deep in a book like oh the the problem exists

between the keyboard and the chair. So anyway shout out to everybody who does

tech support for like a real job all the time because that seems hard.

I'm always so embarrassed. My tech guy at work is amazing like the nicest person ever. His name's

Mike I feel like they're all named Mike and I literally am always like Mike like like like, like listen, you know, my protect's not working in my room or whatever and you know, he'll come in and of course just his presence immediately fixes it.

Yeah. Or my favorite is, well, when I was in college, I was doing a, I did, I did a, like a study abroad but it wasn't abroad it was at the Smithsonian and it was

amazing I had this great experience but like as you now know, I do not do the work, like, a little bit at a time,

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