Parallel Past

E-word,

It's Saturday night. El is upstairs sound asleep, working off her jetlag. It is generally nice that she is home. I'm almost done with 'Something Happened', and I think something really horrible happens at the end (I cheated and glanced at some pages). I also think that maybe this novel is a hundred pages too long. It loses some of it devastating punch by being a little over long.

I have also had some shochu to drink, so I'm feeling pretty good. I'm also listening to that totally infectious Go! Team song. Do it, do it, alright! When I first listened to that Smiths song you put up, I actually felt my eyes water. Man, what a song, and it was totally meaningful to me when I first heard it. I still love that song. I'm listening to it now. 'Young and alive'. It's funny, I know what that line means now. We should one day go to a Go! Team show and bop around, aching joints and bones be damned.

I will disclaim that I must be taken with a grain of salt since I'm slightly inebriated. Crap, I forgot what I was going to say. No, I remember. Getting older sucks. I feel like the stakes are so much higher. When I was in Seoul, my parents were telling me that a part of getting older is making sacrifices. If El and I decide to have kids, we have to make sure we live in a good neighborhood with a good school district, even if that means driving farther to work. My mom was particularly brutal, saying, it's great that I owned a house, but it's not that impressive that I live in S*S*, actually. A townhouse in S*S*? So what, big deal, it's the ghetto.

Well, parents need also be taken with a grain of salt. And stakes are higher. Getting older ungracefully is kind of the epitome of pain. I know it happens, and it'll probably happen to me and you and every sucka we know, but nonetheless it's one of those things that we try to avoid, I think. I dunno, I had too much to drink. Which wasn't all that much, which I guess is good, it means that I don't actually have a high tolerance.

E-word, love will tear us apart. More later, and less inebriated. Dang, this Go! Team song, is crazy awesome. We got the right combination, we got everything!

Whoa, this Go! Team video has a NASA theme.

Love,

Toe