Post 1

As this is the first entry in this here blog, It's wild that today would be the day that I would find this article today about the how Generation X is getting older and *shudder* moving into middle age. While the article generalizes a generation which never felt comfortable belonging to any big group in the first place, it's surprising how similar the situation of Shoshana and I is to some of the people in the article. Shosh left a job as Director of Admissions at a university so she could own her own pottery studio, for cryin' out loud!

I think a lot of us, people who grew up during the age of Mudhoney, Richard Linklater and political correctness (notice the generalization?!), find themselves, well, almost burdened with some of the feelings that we had but were told time and again that we would grow out of once we had to find a real job. Well now I've grown up; I've got a job and a mortgage and a wife... But I feel miles away from being the responsible, sensible person that our parents and grandparents' generations seemed to grow into. I own three video game systems and play them all pretty regularly. I still want to wear t-shirts to any and every occasion. I still spend way too much time being cynical and overanalyzing my cushy life, as this post is making abundantly clear. It worries me sometimes that I feel like I'm not ready to grow up, but It's reassuring hearing stories from people who are in the same boat.