SHORT:
My goal for 2023 is to make a gay guy care about a girl who is shy, ugly, and cannot sing or dance (we came so close with Susan Boyle!!). The 70s were about Cher… the 80s were about Madonna… 2023 is gonna be about Laura… from accounting.
MEDIUM:
Not gonna lie, I’m still not in school, and I’m still not doing anything interesting.
Yesterday I bought a 20 dollar “bullet journal” (place to write down all the things that make you wanna put a bullet thru your head, just kidding). I’m hoping it will help me feel less nuts.
I’ve been in a rancid mood for no reason, but I am trying to embrace and execute the old Shakespearean quote: “turn that frown, upside down”.
I’m trying to be more free… to not overthink things before I do them… dlka[sdglasg[jwqvmca’sdzog for example, that was completely unplanned and natural.
I know the bullet journal directly contradicts “being free and not overthinking/planning things”, but you need to remember that “family is not an important thing… it’s everything” — Michael J Fox. Sorry, I googled “quotes about two things being true at once” and for some reason that random Michael J. Fox quote popped up as the first result.
LONG:
According to Google, Michael J. Fox also once wrote: “If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you're pissing all over today.” Luv that.
I have been “pissing all over today”… quite frequently as of late. Perhaps I should go see a doctor for how often I seem to be urinating…
My therapist has decided that “I never rly got to be a kid” — slash “I never rly let myself be a kid”.
To which I responded: “so when I ate 300 Swedish Fish and ran around the swim locker room screaming about how I was “the world’s biggest fish tank”, that was an adult experience?
And he was like, “uh … I dunno… times up!”
Therapy rly makes you “piss all over today”. Therapists are like, “Mindfulness is everything! Be present!” and then ask about your dance recital from 1999.
Just kidding, my therapist is great, he always says insightful things, & if he ever reads this newsletter, I’m moving to Siberia.
OH MY GOD I FORGOT TO MENTION I FINALLY SAW LEA MICHELLE IN FUNNY GIRL. Look, she’s crazy and a bad person. But… I have never heard notes ring out the way that I heard them ring out in that Broadway theater… she’s deeply goyish when it comes to the role and the comedic timing is… abstract… but the notes. were. otherworldly. I leaned over to Jess at one point to show her my arm that had goosebumps on it and she whispered “we’re witnessing history” and in that moment we were crowned the two gayest people alive (derogatory).
This week I also finished Betty Gilpin’s book & Severance (the novel not the show). Highly recommend both.
I am now starting “The How”, a small little text on “the great work of meeting yourself” — recommended by my good friend Julia.
I can’t wait to meet myself and tell them that they’re soooo sexi.
Hilarious joke.
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And now,
I’ll leave you with one more Michael J. Fox quote:
“I remember my son wanted to go to bed with his cowboy boots on, and we had this fight for like an hour. Then I realized that the only good reason I had for him not to do it is because I didn't want him to. There was really no other reason. And finally I said, "OK, fine." It was a great victory for me, because I realized it doesn't really matter.”
That’s awesome.
Off to bed I go in my I <3 Laura From Accounting t-shirt.
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Reid Pope
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