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It's been nearly a month since I began my First Real Job (TM). This wasn't how I imagined the real world, but I like it. My lazy mornings begin at 8 am, when I role out of bed. I'm out of the house by 9, reading the Metro paper on the red line by 9:10, on the D or E green line train by 9:30, and usually at work by 9:45.

My work is incredibly relaxed; I liken it more to working on a school project with a group of people. My coworkers (all 2 of them) and I are all learning rails, and trying to do development with a team the "right way" for the first time (it seems). I like my coworkers a lot, and I like what I'm doing, so the days fly by. In fact, sometimes I come home in the evening and feel a little down. I'm serious! As a procrastinator, a chronic day-dreamer, and a reddit/newsgator addict, this is just unheard of for me.

So I've been thinking about getting older. Well, I've always thought about getting older. I've feared it for a while - perhaps for the last 5 years. But now I've been thinking about it as someone who has a weekly paycheck and a significant other with a Real Job, too. I see friends getting older - getting engaged, having babies. It doesn't make sense to me. I don't know if it ever will. I can sort of see the allure, though. It's fun to play house and it's fun to combine your incomes and buy things for each other. It's fun to spend evenings together, watching movies and playing games on your new tv.

But I sort of see this time as an excellent opportunity to remain young. To get a cute apartment, my own apartment - to go out, meet people, dance, have people over - to buy new clothes when they fade and new furniture when the cats scratch it up. To own things, keep them clean, keep the house clean without worrying about messy boys. Maybe I've lived with boyfriends too long, maybe I'm done with married life - but settling down, now that we have moved on to the next stage in life - it's almost horrifying. My next big purchase after paying off my credit cards will be privacy.

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Fat Kitty Explores the Front Yard

Rode my bike really far. Not enough energy to get back. Thirsty. Tell my wife... hello.

On the chinatown bus to NYC. Keep getting calls from recruiters. Maybe i'll get a job after all? When did recruiters start sayin web 2.0

John and I had planned on waking up early today and trekking through Boston rush hour traffic to get to Gamestop early to reserve our Wii. My alarm didn't go off, so I woke up 45 minutes late, we forgot to print out the directions, we made a wrong turn on the way there.. and a guy jumped in line a half a second before we did. That guy got the last reservation. :(

There are many "if only"s, but I guess the good that came out of this is that now I really want a Wii. I wanted it before, but now I need one. This is probably why they do these silly reservations. On the positive side, while in line, we got coupons for Old Country Buffet, so we stopped by after having our Wii dreams shattered. Old Country Bufabulous!

After a tasty breakfast of pizza, pasta, salad, fish, hotdogs, and ice cream, we went back to Gamestop and FINALLY got Super Mario Sunshine and Paper Mario. It's nice not buying games until years after they come out, because there's no wait, and they're practically free. So while all you fools are salivating over your Wii reservation, I am anxiously looking forward to my upcoming purchase of Warioware and Rampage.

Shit! I missed Ratatat. Only 2 more days until Final Fantasy part 3. Yay Boston!

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