Ugh. I was all set to start reading The Lightning Thief today, but when I got to work my coworker had brought me a mystery I'd expressed mild interest in last week. She'd finished reading it and gave it to me. Now I have to read it. The pressure!
Mom wanted to watch a movie this evening, and as it happens I'd brought home "Clerks" a few days ago. I found it in the $5 DVD bin. I hadn't watched it in probably 15 years, although for a while in my 20s it was the number one movie to quote among my friends. Say "THIRTY-SEVEN?!" to any one of my friends and we'll scream with laughter, and we'll probably answer with "That's his fuckin metal face." I'm admitting both my age and what I was like as a 20something when I say that Clerks is the quintessential GenX slacker movie.
So we watched it and laughed a lot, but now I feel really depressed. It only seems a little while ago that I was living in a crappy apartment and hanging out with my friends Wolfgang and Qathy, and planning revolutions that wouldn't require, you know, a lot of effort. We were going to change the world someday. In the meantime, we drank a lot of Slurpees and published zines and didn't have any health insurance because we were all young and healthy and couldn't get real jobs.
I think I'll go read that crappy murder mystery my coworker loaned me. It'll probably make me feel old.
Sorry. You can't call yourself old, Kate, until you hit 40 (I'm sure that's in writing some where).
ReplyDeleteBesides...you're never too old to start a little revolution...
Bless you, Alan, but I'm turning 42 in a couple of weeks.
ReplyDeleteI found myself feeling the same thing when I heard Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" the other day. Smells like my mid-life crisis, more like.
ReplyDeleteI can't hear that song without also mentally hearing the Weird Al version, which is a weird experience. My mid-life crisis trigger music is old Alice in Chains, for some reason.
ReplyDeleteTo Kate and Alan: You can't consider yourself old until readers of your blog stop assuming you're under 40. ;) Your brother wants to know what you want for your birthday... shall I tell him you want your 20's back? FWIW,I've always liked you, but you're much cooler at 40 than you were at 20.
ReplyDeleteI was a jerk at 20. Seriously. I'm a lot more fun now.
ReplyDeleteAnd I want some extra hours in my day for my birthday. I think they sell them at ThinkGeek. :)