"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to screw this up for you."

After waking up and having the first thought in my head be, "If I don't have hot water I'm going to resort to violence," it is a bit shocking and entirely delightful to find a book trailer for A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend.

(I don't have hot water, as it happens, but I have warm water sufficient for a very brief shower).

( Transcript under the cut )

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The good news: I paid my taxes!

The bad news: I paid my taxes!

Self-employment is brutal. I am not opposed to taxes. I am not even opposed to higher taxes. I'm pretty darn well opposed to paying more taxes than GE, though. I am opposed to the fact that politicians yell about entrepreneurship to sell their pro-business policies, and yet it's the entrepreneurs -- and even worse, people with full-time jobs who are employed as "contractors" so they get to pay self-employment tax for the awesome privilege of having no health insurance and no job security, without being burdened by the freedom to work in one's pyjamas -- who get hit with taxes while enormous corporations don't.