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Four-twelve

The pitch of my garage roof.

On Tuesdays and Thursdays, 57 minutes after my last class ends.

Genesis: “When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.”

48 comments from now, as far as WordPress is concerned (and counting spam).

The hours I used to work at Publix most Fridays.

When Jon Gruden has been awake 55 minutes, and 100 minutes before I usually arise.

A bad-ass car by Chrysler.

Never my address.

From now until October, for Madelyn.

Posted Sunday, March 5th, 2006 at 9:43 am under Whatever. Follow responses with the RSS 2.0 feed. Leave a response, or trackback.

12 Responses to “Four-twelve”

  1. Kristen writes:
    March 5th, 2006 at 10:38 pm

    I used to work those shifts at a Publix too. Ah, the days when making minimum wage was less insulting.

  2. cbd writes:
    March 6th, 2006 at 7:55 am

    Yeah, the “shift of death” was my usual stint for quite some time: 4-12 Friday, 12-close Saturday, and 12-close Sunday. That added up to about a hundred bucks.

  3. Yellow Dog » Blog Archive » Five Fifty Five writes:
    March 6th, 2006 at 8:31 am

    [...] Borrowed from cbd. [...]

  4. Brendan writes:
    March 6th, 2006 at 11:36 am

    …my wife’s birthday. Also the day, she keeps reminding me, that I’m flying to Atlanta for PCA/ACA conference. Dog house, here I come!

  5. Jonathan writes:
    March 6th, 2006 at 12:48 pm

    Brendan, I’m delivering a paper on Wyndham Lewis at that very same conference; and Clancy will be here too.

    Moving on to more appropriately nerdy matters, have you decided to accept my Rhem 2 challenge?

  6. cbd writes:
    March 6th, 2006 at 3:45 pm

    I hadn’t thought of dates. But nothing interesting has happened to me on April 12. Not that I can remember.

  7. Clancy writes:
    March 7th, 2006 at 8:44 am

    Hey, we have to organize a UF Alumni 4Cs meetup! Jonathan and I have the Blogging SIG on Friday night until 7:30; what are you guys doing after that? There are lots of other possible times; this is only a first suggestion.

  8. cbd writes:
    March 7th, 2006 at 9:50 am

    Nerds!!!!!!

    Friday night? Drink, pack.

  9. jeff writes:
    March 7th, 2006 at 4:39 pm

    Pack? Are you leaving that quickly?

  10. cbd writes:
    March 7th, 2006 at 5:33 pm

    I dunno. I may be heading back to Florida. At this point, it’s hard to tell.

  11. Dean Roberts writes:
    March 7th, 2006 at 7:58 pm

    Interesting concept for a blog post. Did something interesting relating to four-twleve inspire the post? To me it means 48 more minutes of work, followed by three hours with my son, followed by four to twelve hours of reading/research/paper writing/sleep.

  12. cbd writes:
    March 7th, 2006 at 9:30 pm

    It was first Publix, some years ago. And this:

    Well, I got off the train somewhere in Arkansas
    And I worked up the guts to call my mother-in-law
    She said, “I’ll tell you where she is, if you act right.”
    “She’s workin’ four to twelve at Trucker’s World tonight.”
    —Johnny Cash, “Mean Eyed Cat.”

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