{"id":53766,"date":"2014-04-23T19:35:45","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T03:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=53766"},"modified":"2019-06-14T11:36:01","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T19:36:01","slug":"mea-culpa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=53766","title":{"rendered":"Mea Culpa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I screwed up at work, sending out a business letter saying that the client &#8220;was eating her friend.&#8221; I forgot the word &#8220;with.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t believe how many friends I&#8217;ve retained through my bouts of manic in your face postings.<\/p>\n<p>A friend doesn&#8217;t buy my contrite spirit and says I&#8217;ll be acting like Desmond again in no time.<\/p>\n<p>Today I almost made it two hours without saying anything racist.<\/p>\n<p>A broken and contrite heart you cannot despise.<\/p>\n<p>I had such anxiety last night about reaping the whirlwind of my arrogant ways, I could not fall asleep before 4 am. I went to bed at 10 pm, used my Fisher Wallace, put on my CPAP, listened to Paul Johnson&#8217;s Modern Times for an hour (covering Stalin and Hitler), then took off my CPAP, gulped more magnesium, adjusted the open window, put on a Sam Glaser CD, then gave up after an hour and turned on my computer and gulped more magnesium and watched the two-part series on the Great Train Robbery, then I gulped more magnesium and listened to three Dave Barry CDs until finally gulping more magnesium, drifting off, up at 6:30 am, interviewed Byron M. Roth at 8 am.<\/p>\n<p>I was sick all eight days of Pesach (and the two preceding days), feeling better now.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m jolly lucky I have inner peace. Think of the state I&#8217;d be in if I had an uneasy conscience.<\/p>\n<p>I want to say that Mexicans are awesome car mechanics at a good price but I don&#8217;t want to sound racist.<\/p>\n<p>I was such a mentch all morning and now I hear, &#8220;You&#8217;re back again. You can&#8217;t help yourself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When do you want your last day to be?&#8221;<br \/>\nLuke: &#8220;The day Moshiach comes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Luke: &#8220;This delicious tea is more than I deserve.&#8221;<br \/>\nFriend: &#8220;You deserve a lot, you&#8217;re just mentally ill.&#8221;<br \/>\nLuke: &#8220;I should listen to you more often.&#8221;<br \/>\nFriend: &#8220;At the rate you&#8217;re going, you&#8217;ll only be able to listen to me on the radio.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When I first check whether or not what I am about to imbibe has sugar\/carbs\/caffeine\/meat\/kosher etc, does that give off a strong masculine vibe that the ladies love? Many of my girlfriends have called me &#8220;precious.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Is it against the law when you put out an ad for an intern and you ask for a picture and whether or not they&#8217;re single? Asking for a friend.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You don&#8217;t have to answer the phone. You&#8217;re not up to broadcast quality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some people around here won&#8217;t introduce me to their mothers because they fear what I might say.<\/p>\n<p>Seeking a gig as a Chief Diversity Officer. I have letters of recommendation upon request!<\/p>\n<p>Which babies have you found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/canadian-aborted-babies-incinerated-in-oregon-waste-to-energy-facility-to-p.html\">provide<\/a> the most electricity per pound?<\/p>\n<p>Coming to the end (in June) of 2.5 years with my current therapist. What grade would you give her? I was with another therapist, on and off, for ten years. I&#8217;ve never been fired by a therapist nor have I ever fired one. Best one was a gay goy. When I get rich, I&#8217;m seeking him out again.<\/p>\n<p>When I get a mattress and my Russian bride arrives, I&#8217;m going to do great things for the Jewish people.<\/p>\n<p>I fear I&#8217;ll never feel truly Jewish until I can become a victim of antisemitism.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m like a black rapper hoping someone will shoot me (non-fatally) to give me street cred.<\/p>\n<p>I got fired from every job I ever held from sixth grade through tenth grade, then I was not hired back (Pacific Union College summer camp for kids) but I don&#8217;t count that as a firing, and then I got a horrible job evaluation (PUC custodial), and then I managed to quit my next few jobs until inappropriate speech\/use of computer got me canned from several temp jobs 1995-1997&#8230; How was I to know that when you send a fax at this workplace (a news tip I sent to the LA Time about HIV infections in the entertainment industry due to certain practices), a copy of it is stored and printed out later and everyone would hand it around and snicker.<\/p>\n<p>I prefer to gloss over the several acting schools that kicked me out and other centers of learning got very close to kicking me out.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not very good at doing things I&#8217;d prefer not to.<\/p>\n<p>At least I&#8217;ve not yet needed to cold-call people to sell them burial plots.<\/p>\n<p>This black guy asked me in front of two hotties to see my full tzitzit. I raised my shirt and showed him. &#8220;Just so long as you don&#8217;t ask to see my circumcision,&#8221; I said. A loud racket ensued.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s not my true self,&#8221; I protested. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know where that came from.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That is your true self,&#8221; said the young hottie. &#8220;That&#8217;s the problem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Do I strike you as marriage-minded? Future husband\/father material? Can you see yourself making Jewish babies with me? Raising them up to Torah, kindness and marriage? Having seders with my family in rural Queensland? Will Seventh-Day Adventists dance at my wedding? Will my father give the dvar Torah? Separate seating?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never had a boss who liked me cracking a lot of jokes on the job, no matter how many he liked to make.<\/p>\n<p>I try to greet everyone with a friendly countenance. I walk up and down Pico Blvd on Shabbos and say with a smile &#8220;Gut shabbos&#8221; to every yid and half the time, people don&#8217;t respond to me, and I always feel bad when this happens. Am I overly sensitive?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I screwed up at work, sending out a business letter saying that the client &#8220;was eating her friend.&#8221; I forgot the word &#8220;with.&#8221; Can&#8217;t believe how many friends I&#8217;ve retained through my bouts of manic in your face postings. 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