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But I had really close friends I still have to this day. My roommate Kevin and I lived in this brick house in Georgetown. Very early in the school year, all my roommates and I were a little fucked up and driving to Sears to take a family portrait of all of us who lived in the house. We got light jeans—which are back in style, but in 2002, would be a very silly thing to wear—and white button-down shirts and tucked them in with belts. There were seven of us. Kevin just got the CD of Pretzel Logic by Steely Dan, and I don’t know what it was about that moment in time, but we were listening to “Rikki, Don’t Lose That Number,” and I was like, “Is this the finest song I’ve ever heard?”

So then we have this townhouse, we are doing lots of drugs, having lots of fun, and we threw tons of parties. We had a fireplace, and we’d walk around D.C. picking up dried-up Christmas trees. We didn’t have a saw, so we’d stomp them until they broke apart, burn them, blast Steely Dan records, and do cocaine. When we wanted people to leave, we’d play “Pretzel Logic,” loudly. We were like, “If you like this a little, stay.” [laughs] It was like we were hiring: We’re interested and looking for recruits.

I was living in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. There was a track there, and I’d listen to MGMT’s “Time to Pretend” and just run and run. I wasn’t doing any drugs or drinking at this point; I was still smoking cigarettes all the time, but that didn’t have any effect yet. It was a nice moment in time. I didn’t really have a day job. I was doing standup at night. I got to open for Birbiglia on the road. I got to open for the Comedians of Comedy. Life was getting really fun.