Steven M Scotten

I don’t want to jinx anything, but I’ve been on time to work all five days I’ve been a full-time employee so far. Today I’m tempted to take it one step farther. Do I have time to get out of the house with my gym bag

Four days in a row I’ve been to work on time. And for the two years prior I haven’t been anywhere on time once. I guess I got sick of living that way, but I forgot how hard it is to change. Tomorrow I have to get up

I’m afraid that if I let myself sleep in, it will be hard for me to get into the pattern of getting up early. So I left my alarms on even though it was after midnight when I went to sleep last night. Since my neighborhood is still one

I’m making dinner at 11pm, and I’m almost too tired to. I’ve gotten up at or before 6am three days in a row, and sat at a desk for eight or more of those three days. I don’t mean to gripe—I’ve got it good

…and today is my first day as someone else’s employee in over two years. So before I leave the apartment, I’d like to reflect on that love. I enjoy San Francisco, and so do countless others who visit here every year. I love showing the city to my

> I left by the back door with my wife’s lover’s smoking gun It’s just beautiful how much information can be passed in just a dozen words. Reminds me of my favorite Brautigan short story, The Scarlatti Tilt: > “It’s very hard to live in a