Newness
Thursday, April 1st, 2010People hate change, but love new-ness. A new haircut. New… clothes. Way of life. i.e., New Years!. What a contradiddlyction. But like fashion, new-ness is just a facade, the lie that something is created out of nothing emerges from the razzle-dazzle of glossy magazines and glossier Urban Outfitters lighting. What was old becomes new… like the ’90′s, at the mo’. Come thither, thou scrunchies, thou shoulder-padded feminists, and nude beige shades of the past…
Um, the point was to celebrate my MOVING IN to a new place to-day. This evening. Although, it’s not much to celebrate… it is a single roomed unit in a mansion in Greek Row. An *OLD* mansion… no point in getting excitable; my room is small and to me, who has had the luck and pleasure of living in some interesting apartments with some lovely ladies, it will be a poetically Baudelarian experience (if phrased dramatically, with the hint of English-major pretentiousness) and I will bemoan the bare threads of my living accouterments as “What I only need”, a “conscious” way of living, “freeing” myself from unnecessary luxuries and thus, dangers of consumerist behavior (although, I cute tea set in my imaginary apartment with its imaginary kitchen would probably please me to no end for frivolous reasons we will not discuss).
It’ll be refreshing, though: to be free of social constraints in the privacy of my own … er, room. Place. My ex-roommates were cool enough to have their own separate lives– er, work, boyfriends, errands… but you never know, people have mostly shown to be particularly butt-hurt and sensitive when it comes to a “hello” or “goodbye”.
Baudy knows. He’s done away with all those silly willy nillies.
Graciousss

