Just a reminder that every single retarded mass-media cliche about anything should just be resoundingly ignored
August 23, 2011
or: Things that occur to me while watching Freaks and Geeks
I wish I had known when I was younger that my experience of friendship in general was sound and normal, and that there was really no good reason to be expecting the flounciness of forever friendships and pseudo- intimacy to be the key and constant characteristic to normal socialization. I wish I had let myself take comfort in the flounciness and girliness of friendships that I did have, rather than bloody spending all my time worrying about my own abnormality relative to all these fictitious norms, all garnered from all the mass media outlets that pander to adolescents. It doesn’t anger me, but, goddamit. How stupid, and how pointless, and how unecessary.
Also, on a not-even-remotely-related note, Yin is currently looking up aquariums on the internet. It’s cute, because he did a functionally similar thing, when we had both thought last summer that I might move up to Northampton for that job- he suddenly started spending an inordinate amount of time looking up potential hobbies, on the internet. You know, as the logical progression that follows the realization that the person you spend literally all your free time with is suddenly not going to be around 24/7, but rather just on weekends. It’s cute, it’s cute and sweet in a silly and indirect way, it amuses me to think about it, it amuses me to think he’s going to be down in Epsom with his nose pressed up against the aquarium glass on weekday nights when I’m stuck in Whitechapel and he’s down south. He best name a fish or two after me.
