Friday the 13th

Paraskavedekatriaphobia or friggatriskaidekaphobia - the fear of Friday the 13th. Some people won't even get up on this day, paralyzed by their dread concern that something will happen. I don't really have this fear (I've got plenty of other ones!), despite the fact that as a boy I face planted, bit into a concrete curb, and suffered a concussion after flipping over the handlebars of my bike on Friday the 13th. Hell, I don't remember 90% of it and I got a Bulletman action figure as a result! What...me worry? Besides, one of my favorite people in the world was born on Friday the 13th...and they turned out alright!

The picture I have posted of myself with the 13 is pre-shower, as my hair is doing that psychotic Lollipop Guild pompadour thing that I have discovered it can do (much to both my chagrin and excitement). I am not going out today - but not for fear of Friday the 13th. I have graduate student thingees to attend to, and so must be a vampire for the weekend with the drapes drawn in my apartment. So, I guess that I won't actually get to test the Friday the 13th thing in public, as I'll be in my casket for this holiday.

By the way (nothing to do with Friday the 13th) but I have decided to make Chi Chi Wu as one of my many secret identities. I like the name and I think I can pull off Bostonian Chinese American female tax lawyer if the need arose.