Day 30

Some days (weeks, months) are taken over by difficult decisions based on difficult facts and difficult conclusions... not what I had it mind for this year.

No one ever tells you what this part of life is going to feel like. Adulthood can be a lonely place.

Day 24

Sometimes, not often, I take a car home from work. The city looks so different from the car. It looks so much bigger. The number of buildings and cars and people and restaurants... There are thousands of restaurants and all that food must be shipped in every day. Nothing grows in Manhattan. There are more people dining out in Manhattan right this minute than live in my entire hometown. Crazy.

Thus ends my stream of consciousness for the evening.

Day 23

After all the hype (and enough clips that we had seen most of the movie already) we watched The Help tonight. The story was inspirational, I suppose, but not likely at all to have happened.

I couldn't help but relate to some of the characters. Obviously my life is far easier than those depicted by the help, but working in an office that is not exactly leading in gender equality, we are sometimes treated like we are not fully human. Sometimes it's more like we are 80% person and 20% servant robot. Other times it's a fantastic place to work. Also, there's health insurance.

Anyway, I guess The Help was entertaining for what it is and another reminder that I need to do something with my life.