Kalamazoo, MI is fucking boring. I sleep, I eat, I thinking about sleeping and eating. I watch internet porn on my parents dial-up connection (those video clips take forever to download), and I talk to people about my life in New York. Conversations often go like this:
Midwesterner wearing brown and black: So How NEW YORK CITY!!!!!!!
Me: Its great, I have some really great friends there now.
MWBB: WOW I just cant imagine moving all that way. Weren't you scared?
Me: Yeah but thats why I did it.
MWBB(they cock their head a little): I dont get it.
Me: I left because the idea of leaving was scarry. I did it because I've never left before.
MWBB: OOOOOOOKKKAAAY(looking at me like I'm crazy)
Me: I just had to try something new, ya know?
MWBB(clearly needing to change the subject): So how's school? NYU, right?
Me: Schools great. I'm not going to NYU I'm going to smaller school, Brooklyn College.
MWBB:Oh yeah, sure, sure.
Me:Yeah its really great, Michael Cunningham teaches there, Allen Ginsberg taught there also.
MWBB: Who?
Me: They're writers.
MWBB: oh ok. So do you live in Brooklyn?
Me: Yeh.
MWBB: Wow that must be scary? Like in the ghetto I mean.
Me: I guess it would be if you lived in a ghetto.
MWBB: Dont you live in Brooklyn?
ME: Yeh.
MWBB: Nevermind
I have to drive 20 miles for Starbucks.
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You know, midwesterners wear brown and black to match their bleak surroundings.. depressing, I know..
thats why I wear orange...cause then I match oranges...:D
You need to come over and have more steak with me...because...I like that. sorry about falling asleep in the middle of Arrested Development...
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