Question of the Week: But don't you want to get married? have kids? settle down?1
Yes, that's right, settle down. Because it's just party central over here in Debville. I don't know what gave it away. Perhaps it was the fact that, when a work colleague asks about my weekend, my answer is inevitably, "Oh, I met up with some mates at the State Library. We have this thing, where we get together every Saturday and sit in a room where we're not allowed to talk to each other, and we don't let ourselves leave that room until we've written something. It was great!"2
Or maybe, just maybe, it's the fact that, shockingly, I am not desperate to put an end to my single status, despite having turned 30 some years ago. Clearly, internet, I am a brazen hussy and I need to just STOP IT NOW. Because the overpopulated world is depending on my uterus. I mean, we won't be able to eat the planet dry of all its resources unless I breed, and now, dagnabbit.
If you'll excuse me, there's some youth I need to go out and corrupt.
- Posed to me, not by my mother, who is far too cool for such outdated attitudes, nor by anyone born in the decades preceding the first world war, but by a lad in his twenties. [↩]
- This weekend gone we really shook up the plan by going to see a movie afterwards. Because nothing is better than sitting in a brightly-lit room where you're not allowed to talk, except perhaps following it up by sitting in a darkened room where you're not allowed to talk. That's just how we extreme partygoers roll. [↩]
Ben Payne [19 May 2009 @ 8:24 pm]
Stop complaining and get back to breeding, you!!
1Jan Schmidt [19 May 2009 @ 8:57 pm]
You crushed the poor guy's closely held dream of one day settling down and having kids with you!
2damselfly [19 May 2009 @ 9:37 pm]
@Ben: back? oh dear. you mean i'm supposed to have started already? i seriously fail at this.
@jan: Ha!
Well, it's better that he be disillusioned now. I would make a terrible wife. Tessa told me so today, no less, when she told me she would never marry me.
3Ben Payne [19 May 2009 @ 9:49 pm]
That Tessa's a heartbreaker!
4damselfly [19 May 2009 @ 9:52 pm]
I know! But, as the very wise Holly Golightly once pointed out, that is what comes of loving a wild thing.
5Tessa @ Work [20 May 2009 @ 7:15 am]
…..the romance is gone. *weep*
6Jan Schmidt [22 May 2009 @ 2:40 am]
Which is exactly the sort of thing one deserves for allowing Truman Capote to put anything in one's mouth, especially lines.
7Jiffy [22 May 2009 @ 6:02 pm]
I'd marry you, debs, if only you'd lower yourself to my level… sigh. We'd get cheap sperm for the baby thing, too!
8damselfly [22 May 2009 @ 6:26 pm]
will you cook my dinner and lunches and do all my sewing for me?
9Jiffy [22 May 2009 @ 7:06 pm]
Dinner, yes. Lunches…maybe (I'll make you a sammich). I procrastinate with my sewing, so I'm not sure how I'll go with yours, but I'll damn well try
10Jiffy [22 May 2009 @ 7:09 pm]
I demand separate computers though!
11damselfly [22 May 2009 @ 7:15 pm]
Separate computers will not be a problem – I always did have a problem with sharing.
12Sir Tessa [22 May 2009 @ 10:47 pm]
OMG. Not even a week and you are philandering! MAH HEARTBREAK. LET ME SHOW YOU IT.
13Jan Schmidt [22 May 2009 @ 11:07 pm]
If u liked it then u shoulda putta ring onnit
14damselfly [23 May 2009 @ 8:11 am]
15damselfly [23 May 2009 @ 8:12 am]
to be fair to poor tessa, technically, since i wanted to be the husband, i shoulda actually bought her a ring and put some effort into sweeping her off her feet instead of proposing via email
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