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Sep. 29th, 2008 08:05 pmHad a conversation with my sort-of sister-in-law over Labor Day about feeling your age. We are a year apart in age. She mentioned that she doesn't feel any different from the day she graduated from high school, and is surprised sometimes to look in the mirror and see the 33 y.o. instead of the 17 y.o. Yeah, me, too, sometimes.
I've long insisted that I don't want to be a grown up -- I don't want the responsibility. Because squinching my eyes closed in the face of reality prevents it from being true, right? Ignore the job, the mortgage, the string ofdisastrousunfortunate relationships, all the other indicia of adulthood.
After reading that the Dow dropped >770 points, I felt like a scared, beleaguered grown up. Oddly, it didn't feel all that different from being a scared, beleaguered teenager...except then I was worried about getting into college and paying for it, and what my future would be. Today I'm worried about the future again and how I'll pay for it, but on the broader scale. How will I or anyone retire, especially Boomers who haven't saved all that much but still expect to retire in the coming decade? How will the country pay for the monumental bank bailout? How will we pay the military bill coming due for this coming year, let alone for the expansion of the military that both candidates seem to think is necessary?
I'm going to pour a glass of wine, balance my checkbook, then settle in to watch The Daily Show, which has the best damn political reporting out there.
I've long insisted that I don't want to be a grown up -- I don't want the responsibility. Because squinching my eyes closed in the face of reality prevents it from being true, right? Ignore the job, the mortgage, the string of
After reading that the Dow dropped >770 points, I felt like a scared, beleaguered grown up. Oddly, it didn't feel all that different from being a scared, beleaguered teenager...except then I was worried about getting into college and paying for it, and what my future would be. Today I'm worried about the future again and how I'll pay for it, but on the broader scale. How will I or anyone retire, especially Boomers who haven't saved all that much but still expect to retire in the coming decade? How will the country pay for the monumental bank bailout? How will we pay the military bill coming due for this coming year, let alone for the expansion of the military that both candidates seem to think is necessary?
I'm going to pour a glass of wine, balance my checkbook, then settle in to watch The Daily Show, which has the best damn political reporting out there.
