I don’t take my irresponsibility pledge lightly. This may sound like a contradiction in terms, but I like to get things right, or in this case, wrong.
So today, I didn’t make the phone calls I should have made and I spent an hour reading a website I just found and instantly fell in love with. Also, I woke up at 7 and at 8 I went back to bed and re-woke at 10.
Tomorrow I am going to buy a bottle of tequila to make margaritas at home. I intend to spend at least 2 days a week in a margarita-haze.
I feel that everyone around me is growing up fast and this is my ineffectual and unconvincing way to slow down. People fill their days with important activities and go through their checklists and tick things off. I do that too, sometimes, just not now. Not now.
Being grown up is hard. Here’s a non-exhaustive list of conversation topics I hear around me, at work, on the bus, in the park:
-What’s for dinner: All the different dinner possibilities that a piece of meat/vegetable presents are discussed to eternity.
-He said/She said/He said
-The weather. It’s not an English monopoly anymore.
-What to do on Saturday night. This club, that restaurant.
-Reality shows. Who’s expelled, who made a fool of themselves.
-Murders, thefts, scandals in the news.
In addition, people usually engage in parallel talk and not in interactive conversation. This means that they talk in turns without addressing what the other one is saying. They just pick up where they left off when it was the other person’s turn to talk.
All this is too stressful to me. Drivel takes up lots of memory cells. I cannot function. I feel like an extra terrestrial. I need to be surrounded by interesting people who make me laugh. I will make them laugh in return.
June 13th, 2008 at 1:31 am
You certainly make me laugh most of the time, or you make me warm in the heart the rest of the time
I second that about being a grown-up, I mean, I’m not really because I don’t have that much responsability but the possibility of having it is absolutely terrifying and BORING!
And it seems that people interact less and less these days. I find that everyone just wants to be heard or, to put it clearer, to blurt out whatever they need to say. And it’s the people who listen who suffer with that. It drives me crazy sometimes.
June 13th, 2008 at 8:47 am
now, if you could only click your fingers like you said in the previous post
June 13th, 2008 at 10:38 am
I watch the people around me grow up too. I’m rather amused by this, to be honest, as it doesn’t affect me
I feel the irresponsibility streak in me is fulfilled (and more!) by my endless hours (I admit!) listening to / talking about / reading about / watching Rufus. It’s completely “unnecessary” (in grown-up thinking, at least), but I love it, and won’t stop. And if you think this doesn’t make me laugh, you obviously hasn’t talked to his other fans - wonderfully weird people between 15 - 75! 
I think having one (or more) “unnecessary” things like this - call them obsessions if you like - is absolutely necessary to remain sane. It is for me, at least. And it’s also keeping me soooo young I’m almost the age of my kids now. But without having to go to bed early!
June 13th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
You gotta live your life the way you wanna live it.
June 13th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
Make sure you use fresh limes, make your own simple syrup and use a good orange liquor. Do not buy premixed- margarita mix it is way too sweet and or sour and it hides the taste of tequila. Also, do not buy anything that says “Jose Cuervo” on it.
June 13th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
We should have a national do nothing and be irresponsible day. It’d help keep everyone balanced.
June 14th, 2008 at 3:07 am
All I can say is, I feel exactly like that too :S
I feel like no one listens any more. I feel like an extra terrestrial for not wanting whatever it is grown-ups are supposed to want. Each year, the people “like” me I know are fewer and fewer, or are younger and younger. Am I living my life backwards?
PS - We should have an on-line happy hour
June 15th, 2008 at 12:40 am
I came here via Maddie’s place, having just watched/listened to the Amir Sulaiman/Def Poetry video she’s linked, and read this post with his rhythm in my head. It was quite amazing. I then skipped through your blog, stopping at Scottish men (how could I NOT?) & the town which has everything & was mesmerized & blown away & quite happy with the whole experience. I will be back. Until then, here’s to summer.
June 18th, 2008 at 2:12 am
Come to Texas! I’ll listen *while* I make you a margarita!!
xoxo
June 18th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
hi chloe ~ you make my day. and i’ve just posted about you on my blog to prove it. :o) please jump on over to receive your award…..
June 26th, 2008 at 11:06 am
I love this post. I´m in the middle of a thirty something crisis and part of it has to do with the fact that I can´t believe this is what all the build-up was about. All the excitement of getting married and the anxiety around establishing a career and getting a good job. Now I have those things and I´m going, “oh my god, THIS is it?….alright, I´m gonna need a drink then”.
July 3rd, 2008 at 3:13 am
How soothing, how relieving. I want IN I’ll bring the Margarita mix!