BFF in the NYT

I’m not sure how exactly this happened, but my friend/roommate Josh is quoted in an editorial in today’s New York Times:

“Josh Riman graduated from Syracuse University in 2006. “I had a job at a great advertising agency,” he said, “but was laid off in 2007. I found a job the next day, amazingly enough, and worked at this next advertising shop for about a year and a half. Then, on my birthday, the place went bankrupt. We all lost our jobs.” Since then, Mr. Riman has been doing freelance and “pro bono” work. He has been unable to find anything even reasonably secure.”

It’s true! Not mentioned in the article is how after he lost his job on his birthday, I went bowling with him to cheer him up, and it turned out the bowling alley was closed for renovations. And then he got his foot caught in a bucket and a car drove through a puddle, drenching him.