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THURSDAY, 29 OCTOBER 2009
Every Monday you swear this week will be different.
You've sworn it nine hundred times. The week stopped listening.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- You said you're "booked and busy". Booked for a dentist you'll cancel. Busy rewatching…
- No pain, no gain. You chose neither. Your heart has noted it in your…
- Your alarm didn't wake you. The dread did. It doesn't have a snooze button.
- Someone laminated an "Acceptable Behaviour" poster for the office kitchen. It will still be…
- You asked the chatbot if you were a good parent. It said "absolutely" before…
- Your chatbot calls every one of your ideas "a really insightful question". Zack has…
- Every relationship has a honeymoon period. Yours was the walk from the bar to…
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