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Dec. 15th, 2010 11:40 pmREL is back, so it's noisy and Scarlett's cat keeps escaping the upstairs to attack my parents' old cat. (I am sure it is not REL letting the cat out, but there are more comings and goings and a higher level of chaos. I hate my parents' cat, but that doesn't mean I'm comfortable with it getting attacked, and in fact I feed and groom it and am pleased to see it even though it is a deeply awful animal.)
The other effect of REL being back is a dramatic increase in the number of times in a day I'm asked "how are you doing," usually when I or she enters or reenters a room. And it's friendly enough, but honestly what do you say the fourth time you're asked in the same day by someone you live with, when you are clearly in the same place doing the same thing. I normally say "fine" or "working" but am generally baffled by the exchange, because I can't tell whether it's meant to lead to conversation or is an odd reflex or what. It sometimes comes in the middle of my saying how I'm doing or after I've already spent a few minutes talking about how I'm doing.
Scarlett, Ciro, and REL went to the Ghostland Observatory gig (I was working) and apparently it was amazing and also they were the coolest people there. Dallas is crap at a lot of things, but it's extremely image-focused, so there's never a shortage of people putting in a great effort to appear as though they are the most fashionable, having the best time, the most connected to exclusive things, etc., even though there's rarely much going on. Even though I know Boston is deliberately anti-fashion and introverted, it's still weird, particularly given that it seems much easier to be cool here. We should be running into more than hipster cliches in our age group.
The other effect of REL being back is a dramatic increase in the number of times in a day I'm asked "how are you doing," usually when I or she enters or reenters a room. And it's friendly enough, but honestly what do you say the fourth time you're asked in the same day by someone you live with, when you are clearly in the same place doing the same thing. I normally say "fine" or "working" but am generally baffled by the exchange, because I can't tell whether it's meant to lead to conversation or is an odd reflex or what. It sometimes comes in the middle of my saying how I'm doing or after I've already spent a few minutes talking about how I'm doing.
Scarlett, Ciro, and REL went to the Ghostland Observatory gig (I was working) and apparently it was amazing and also they were the coolest people there. Dallas is crap at a lot of things, but it's extremely image-focused, so there's never a shortage of people putting in a great effort to appear as though they are the most fashionable, having the best time, the most connected to exclusive things, etc., even though there's rarely much going on. Even though I know Boston is deliberately anti-fashion and introverted, it's still weird, particularly given that it seems much easier to be cool here. We should be running into more than hipster cliches in our age group.
