March 14th, 2005

Welcome to my blog, a continuous observation of human ridiculousness.

A little background about me: I am a twentysomething caught the carrot race, in a field dominated by high-maintenance upwardly mobile overachievers who have no problem forking over two grand a month to live in Upper East Side highrises and tote purses with logos from J. Lo videos. I went to a fancy prep school with the children of D.C. politicians, a fancy college filled with Connecticut WASPs and underloved gold-card-toting bankerspawn, and a self-important law school where professors are required to trace their bloodline to the Mayflower to receive tenure. Now I’ve sold out to work as an associate at a law firm in Manhattan, where my day is reduced to 10-minute billable increments constantly entered into a computer with explanations like “Colating and auditing sets of documents constituting initial discovery.” What the hell does that even mean. Whatever it is, people pay the firm $250 an hour for me to do it (though for the record I see little of that money).

Every day people say things in my vicinity that make me question whether I accidentally wandered out of my life into a shallow first novel, the kind you buy on sale at a Penn Station coffee shop.

PLEASE NOTE: If you are offended by any of my opinions, start your own hater blog or go tell your therapist, but kindly leave me to my self-sustaining and overdeveloped/oft-underinformed views. If you agree with me, or are simply amused, I promise you the opinions will keep coming as long as I live to observe the inane behavior of human beings (myself included). General rule: If you are wondering whether any of these opinions are about you, they probably are.

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