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evidently

Posted on January 10, 2012 | 4 Comments

It is at 23 that you realize that, even though you were generally unhappy and incredibly uncomfortable during high school, and even though the people who treated you badly did so without question, you were also quite inexcusably a bitch during those four years. But also, it’s a high school memory, and most bad things from high school are at once meaningless and excusable but also totally and permanently scarring. Finally, this realization is an indication that high school truly never ends, by virtue of the fact that angst lives forever.

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imagination spaces

Posted on November 7, 2011 | 2 Comments

When Amanda was visiting me, we talked about things to do in Boston, and we realized that we are not compatible museumgoers. It’s funny that museums are especially a kind of thing that you can’t enjoy with just anyone. We all have our favorite people to do certain things with, but there are things that we can do with everyone and find them enjoyable, or at least palatable. Museums, though, require really compatible companions.

I noticed this in Prague when my friend Emily became the only person interested in going to museums, for one, and we both had the same way of mostly ignoring each other but sometimes talking about the art or exhibits, and other times making silly comments, like how I really want reproductions of the plates that Salvador Dalí painted on for my house. Things worked out perfectly for us both because we didn’t expect the museum to be a place where we were going to socialize, per se, and also we wanted to spend about the same amount of time there. It’s hard to find a museum soulmate. Continue reading →

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