Category: Generation Meh
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“If I don’t become a spy, I’m probably just going to stop.” There are not many people who could utter a line like that and have it make perfect sense in the moment. My friend K is one of those people. What K was getting at was the idea that eventually you have to stop…
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Recently, I was asked what I wanted and I couldn’t answer. It was one of those tipsy late-night conversations in which people feel almost duty-bound to ask dramatic, probing questions and then nod along sagely with your dramatic, probing answer because our whole lives are just poignant moonlit set pieces, yes? But I couldn’t answer.…
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My coworker asks if I’m well. “Well? Not really. Maybe well-ish, I guess?” “Unacceptable, Sport” “I’m fine. I’m here. I’m doing my job. The rest of it isn’t germane.” “Germans? What Germans?” Our internal phone system isn’t the greatest. And yes, he calls me Sport. The point in this is that I didn’t lie. I…
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I suppose I should come right out and announce the conclusion that I’ve been slowly drawing (but in pencil so I can erase it if need be) in my head for that last couple of months – this generational analysis thing is so dead. The Gen Y/Millennial media monopolization and fascination is the deadest horse…
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Grow my hair into a long, flowing mane Rejected because: People would just mistake it for a wig, anyway. Again. Don’t yell at my parents’ dog when I visit Rejected because: Yelling is the only way to be heard over the barking. Photo by Stepheye Get fragrance named after me. Refer to it as my…
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I remember being on a walk with a friend back in the spring. We were discussing big life-changing decisions and how we (the collective, humanity-wide we) come to them. She voted for panic, I argued in favor of desperation. Pretty similar, although the latter still lets you cling to the illusion of control, while the…
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This week, I went through some old messages on a forum I used to frequent with the intent of scrapping them before the site itself closed up shop. But I couldn’t do it. Couldn’t hit delete and wipe ’em out permanently. There’s something to be said for a paper trail, ya know? Heck, I still…
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I’ve been thinking a lot about tenability, sustainability and the long term lately.There’s the idea that if you just keep on keeping on that you’ll eventually catch a break. Dues will be paid, you’ll figure out a system, things will get easier. But what if they don’t?
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I’m borrowing this idea from Alexandra Franzen, friend of the blog. And while I lack Ms. Franzen’s level of congenial charm and pep (seriously, couldn’t she have left some for the rest of us?), I love the idea of simply throwing out there what we’re looking for to see what might happen. If you have…
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I remember telling a friend years ago that she lived life as it were a movie and she were the star and the rest of the world were just extras inserted to fill in the background of a given scene (I’ve become a much better friend since those days, obviously). I was reminded of this…
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