I love McSweeney’s lists.  They are admittedly hit and miss; like political humor, you have to be knowledgeable about the subject in order for it to be funny.  As a bumbling, working, college-againing, life-plan-changing person, I am very knowledgeable about The Fine Art of Life Not Being What You Thought It Would Be.  Thus, today, I give you a reposting of a recent list for you.  Tomorrow I’ll try to get back into the regular posting, the kind of posting I do when I feel like my life isn’t currently being compressed by a pair of unrelenting vice grips.

What Could Have Been

BY COLIN PERKINS

- – - -

The Life My Mother Planned for Me

A+

NYU

Ph.D.

HMO

IRA

The Life I Planned for Me

NFL

L.A.

ESPN

MVP

VIP

Double D

USA! USA! USA!

The Life I’m Living

ADD

GED

DUI

IHOP

SOB

WTF