Saturday, August 15, 2009

Unemployed And Homeless Someday

Oh what are you majoring in?

Critical studies of people like you. It’s very interesting.

Each summer she burned certain sets of notes and flipped through others, mostly for the doodles and ideas in the margins.

And, um, what would you plan on doing with that?

Looking at butterflies all day every day. AKA unemployed and homeless.

She often got restless. Undoubtedly she loved her life, but in the weeks when one season changed into the next, all kinds of yearnings and half-thought-out plans rose in her. She couldn’t resist it.

Well that sounds incredible. That’s great to hear.

1 comment:

  1. Haha this is perfectly scathing and I want to answer something along that vein whenever people ask me the same questions.

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