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bluegreen17) wrote2003-07-04 01:59 pm
bluegreen17) wrote2003-07-04 01:59 pm
where everybody knows your name
spoiler alert: if you haven't seen fight club yet,you might not want to read this. fight club is an amazing movie.
the connection between
calvin and hobbes and fight club
well,yesterday i decided to take my holiday on the actual holiday. so here i am. i called sara last night and she said she was going to michele's today,probably. i could have invited myself along,i'm sure,but i dont really like driving on the road to there. i had been thinking of possibly inviting sara over to hang out,but when i called i wasn't sure if i wanted to be by myself today or have company. so i didnt say anything when i talked to her. plus,she'd said she was going to michele's.
i woke up this morning and wished i had some stupid lazy thing to do today. many days i don't really enjoy hanging around doing nothing with other people,but i was kind of in the mood for that today,so it would have been perfect to go to a family gathering...which i rarely have a yen to attend...but i just didn't want to drive there.
it made me think of the sense of community or lack thereof. i have family,but we're all over the place. it would be nice to either have family all in one town/city or to have some bunch of friends nearby. when i was growing up in a small town,i pretty much had that kind of community. when i went to high school which was a regional high school,my friends were spread over three towns. but we saw each other at school,at after school activities,and badgered our mom's to drive us to each other's houses. and after we were 16,we could borrow the family car and see each other.
in college,friends were never far away. during my twenties,i lived in a small city and my friends were around.
some of my friends even lived in the same building.
then in my thirties,i moved here and lived with mom and a sister or two,though rachel moved out not long after i moved in. i didn't socialize much for a few years,but then i did a few things with friends from work and met one of my friends because she shopped where i worked.
then i got a new job,and made some new friends at work. i only really socialized with one friend outside of work and she lived a little ways away,but i didn't mind the particular road i had to travel to get there.
these days,i have work friends and mostly that's it. i had lunch with megan one day during vacation,and derek wants to have me over to dinner with himself and darlene one of these days.a bunch of us sometimes go out after work,but not too often.
fortunately,my sisters are my friends too but they are not close by. i guess it's due to my reluctance to drive far that i feel isolated sometimes. it's a good thing i love being by myself a lot of the time.
i really didnt' mind spending christmas alone. that mostly happened because we had a huge snowstorm. otherwise,for christmas i would have driven to my sister's. but for some reason,i'm really restless on this fourth of july!
i decided that i'd just try to get some things organized around here,as i would feel a lot better if i got it done. there's tons of that sort of thing to do.
it would be nice to have some place to just hang out when you want some company,though. somewhere where you know people and they know you. there really isn't a place like that around here. i don't think there's 'places like that' many other places either. is there? 'cheers' was just a tv show,but i used to live in the the 'leave it to beaver' neighborhood,so...
the connection between
calvin and hobbes and fight club
well,yesterday i decided to take my holiday on the actual holiday. so here i am. i called sara last night and she said she was going to michele's today,probably. i could have invited myself along,i'm sure,but i dont really like driving on the road to there. i had been thinking of possibly inviting sara over to hang out,but when i called i wasn't sure if i wanted to be by myself today or have company. so i didnt say anything when i talked to her. plus,she'd said she was going to michele's.
i woke up this morning and wished i had some stupid lazy thing to do today. many days i don't really enjoy hanging around doing nothing with other people,but i was kind of in the mood for that today,so it would have been perfect to go to a family gathering...which i rarely have a yen to attend...but i just didn't want to drive there.
it made me think of the sense of community or lack thereof. i have family,but we're all over the place. it would be nice to either have family all in one town/city or to have some bunch of friends nearby. when i was growing up in a small town,i pretty much had that kind of community. when i went to high school which was a regional high school,my friends were spread over three towns. but we saw each other at school,at after school activities,and badgered our mom's to drive us to each other's houses. and after we were 16,we could borrow the family car and see each other.
in college,friends were never far away. during my twenties,i lived in a small city and my friends were around.
some of my friends even lived in the same building.
then in my thirties,i moved here and lived with mom and a sister or two,though rachel moved out not long after i moved in. i didn't socialize much for a few years,but then i did a few things with friends from work and met one of my friends because she shopped where i worked.
then i got a new job,and made some new friends at work. i only really socialized with one friend outside of work and she lived a little ways away,but i didn't mind the particular road i had to travel to get there.
these days,i have work friends and mostly that's it. i had lunch with megan one day during vacation,and derek wants to have me over to dinner with himself and darlene one of these days.a bunch of us sometimes go out after work,but not too often.
fortunately,my sisters are my friends too but they are not close by. i guess it's due to my reluctance to drive far that i feel isolated sometimes. it's a good thing i love being by myself a lot of the time.
i really didnt' mind spending christmas alone. that mostly happened because we had a huge snowstorm. otherwise,for christmas i would have driven to my sister's. but for some reason,i'm really restless on this fourth of july!
i decided that i'd just try to get some things organized around here,as i would feel a lot better if i got it done. there's tons of that sort of thing to do.
it would be nice to have some place to just hang out when you want some company,though. somewhere where you know people and they know you. there really isn't a place like that around here. i don't think there's 'places like that' many other places either. is there? 'cheers' was just a tv show,but i used to live in the the 'leave it to beaver' neighborhood,so...
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