:08:03
Sure,
:08:05
What about Sunday?
Will you be around?
:08:07
You've had three days,
:08:09
I know you don't need
anybody in your hair,
:08:12
but someone's got
to go through your dad's stuff,
:08:14
- There's nothing up there,
- There are 103 notebooks,
:08:17
He was a graphomaniac, Harold,
Do you know what that is?
:08:20
He wrote compulsively,
Call me Hal,
:08:22
It's like a monkey at a typewriter,
103 notebooks full of bullshit,
:08:26
I'm prepared to look at every page,
Are you?
:08:28
No,
:08:31
I'm not crazy,
:08:36
Well, I'm gonna be late,
:08:38
Some friends of mine are in this band,
:08:41
They're playing in a bar on Diversey,
way down the bill, around 2:30,
:08:45
- I said I'd be there,
- Great,
:08:47
They're all in the math department,
They're good,
:08:50
They have this song called "i,"
You'd like it, Lowercase i,
:08:53
They just stand there,
They don't play anything for three minutes,
:08:57
Imaginary number?
:08:58
It's a math joke,
You see why they're way down the bill,
:09:01
That's a long drive
to see some nerds in a band,
:09:04
I hate when people say that,
It's not really that long of a drive,
:09:08
- So they are nerds,
- Oh, they're raging geeks,
:09:10
But they're geeks
who can dress themselves
:09:13
and hold down a job at a major university,
:09:15
Some of them have switched
from glasses to contacts,
:09:18
They play sports, They play in a band,
They get laid surprisingly often,
:09:23
So it makes you kind of question
the whole set of terms:
:09:26
"Geek," "nerd," "wonk,"
"Dilbert," "paste-eater,"
:09:31
- You're in this band, aren't you?
- OK, yes,
:09:33
I play the drums, You wanna come?
I never sing, I swear to God,
:09:37
- No, thanks,
- All right, look, Catherine,
:09:39
- Monday, What do you say?
- Don't you have a job?
:09:42
- A full teaching load plus my own work,
- Plus band practice,
:09:46
- Plus I teach hockey to ten-year-olds,
- You make me sick,
:09:49
I don't have time to do this,
but I have to if you'll let me,
:09:52
I loved your dad, and I don't believe
a mind like his can just shut down,
:09:55
He had lucid moments, a lucid year,
a whole year three years ago,
:09:59
- Sorry,
- Look, let me...