Tuesday, June 19, 2007
oh, you kids.
starting school again ushered in a new day: for the first time, i am not (however slightly) younger than the majority of my friends. in fact, a lot of the school chums are significantly younger--at least it seems to me; the monkey pointed out that the age gaps i find significant in this case are roughly the same as the gap between the two of us. then again, we didn't meet when we were twenty-three and thirty, respectively. plus, even then i was kind of a crone in twentysomething clothing. then i moved to new york and got much older much faster!
but anyway, what's great about the young friends is that they want to go out all the time. there are multiple parties being planned around the advent of the wedding, and the twenty-three year olds will go to all of them! they'll go to brooklyn, they'll trek up to washington heights, they'll come out on a tuesday night. they are so untired. what else is great? they are easily impressed by feats of grownupness. and moxie, even in its most conventional flavors. i played them the first draft of the wedding reception playlist, and one of them said, open-jawed, "you're going to have a song about rehab at your wedding?" yes, virginia; thanks to the one who's least afraid, that is.
me? not so untired, but not so bad, honestly. last day at this particular day job is mid-next-week, and it is occurring to me that this might be my last one. that would take considerable good fortune; most likely there are summer jobs ahead, and who knows what happens four years from now. i may end up as Dr. Waitress. but this is the last soul-sucking semi-permanent arrangement for a while, and that feels pretty good. it feels good not to care how well i do this bullshit. plus, no one has given me a task for seven days. it's been internet city and ninety minute lunches over here. you'd think with all that free time i'd update the blog a little more often, but i'm too busy trying to find tasteful yet sparkly earrings.
but anyway, what's great about the young friends is that they want to go out all the time. there are multiple parties being planned around the advent of the wedding, and the twenty-three year olds will go to all of them! they'll go to brooklyn, they'll trek up to washington heights, they'll come out on a tuesday night. they are so untired. what else is great? they are easily impressed by feats of grownupness. and moxie, even in its most conventional flavors. i played them the first draft of the wedding reception playlist, and one of them said, open-jawed, "you're going to have a song about rehab at your wedding?" yes, virginia; thanks to the one who's least afraid, that is.
me? not so untired, but not so bad, honestly. last day at this particular day job is mid-next-week, and it is occurring to me that this might be my last one. that would take considerable good fortune; most likely there are summer jobs ahead, and who knows what happens four years from now. i may end up as Dr. Waitress. but this is the last soul-sucking semi-permanent arrangement for a while, and that feels pretty good. it feels good not to care how well i do this bullshit. plus, no one has given me a task for seven days. it's been internet city and ninety minute lunches over here. you'd think with all that free time i'd update the blog a little more often, but i'm too busy trying to find tasteful yet sparkly earrings.
