Friday, December 21, 2007

The Month that Disappeared

So everything was going along swimmingly. I was productively writing every month, diligently calculating whether I’d be able to squeeze in 10 or 15 blog entries in November, mentally drafting my witty retorts to Salman Rushdie at fashionable New York parties, when BAM! It’s December 21, and my blog isn’t even in my browser cache anymore.

The whole month has been a haze. All I remember is going to the mall a lot. At any given moment, Jingle Bells was probably stuck in my head. After all that, I still don’t have presents for my family. Oh, and I got a year older. Welcome to the LATE twenties. Tick tock. According to the unwritten schedule I made when I was twelve, I should have been attending those glitzy New York parties five years ago. But those five years somehow flew by, too.

Time’s a bitch. We’re in a such a fight right now.

1 comment:

J&D said...

Oh, I'm in a major war with time. I think it's worse for women too. I'm farther along than you, and I can hear my biological clock ticking every night when I go to sleep. It ticks as I lay on top of my boyfriend, wondering if my oven will ever start baking a bun. Not that I want a bun right now (and not for a couple of years), but my biological clock would like to know that my oven has the option of inserting dough for baking.

Then I start wondering, if I need to start all over, where in this blasted earth am I going to find another man and get him in shape in time before my oven poofs into powder from lack of use? I mean, my man is supposed to be the "last man on earth". If he's not it, then I'm in trouble.

And of course there's the career stuff as well... But I think that has no gender-clock attached to it. The same urgency for all of us in equal measure.

I want to nap. Maybe it will all go away if I waste more time.