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Back to my future

So I just finished the first draft of my novel. I do not feel nearly as fulfilled as I was promised I would, but I am glad that I've done it. I like saying things like "my novel" and "look at me." I was talking to my mother tonight in order to rub this in her face, and we were discussing what I wanted to do with my future. I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up, and I'm starting to get wrinkles already.

Things I would like to do:

--Write one more mediocre YA novel and then write a memoir combining all of the best bits of Girl Interrupted, Wasted, Prozac Nation, The Basketball Diaries and Sellevision. Luckily, I have most disorders and ailments on lockdown and a career in advertising. If only I came across a vicious dog, I could work in a little Autobiography of a Face as well

--Somehow make a career out of writing pseudo-legal documents, and/or wiki entries (see Dustin Diamond)

--Do yoga and not be embarrassed about it

--Write a book like David Sedaris where I wrote a dozen witty anecdotes that gently poke fun at myself, and makes my family look foolish

--Go somewhere, South America or Southeast Asia and loaf. Like Larry Darrell

--Write a sex and dating column for someone. Anyone

--Get a dachshund named Weenie

--Have a mock court or debate team with my friends where we argue important points about issues such as the economies of facial stubble and ringpiece transplant surgery

--Learn how to digital DJ. Take the nu-disco movement by storm

--Be a better person

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Sweetheart, I've known about you and the yoga for a long time. And I've been practicing acceptance since then.

If it makes you feel any better, I practice yoga about five times a week now. Start by not making fun of me, and see how it feels.

 

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