18 September 2003 (Thursday)

getting ahead of myself

Daydreams run rampant these days. I ran into an acquaintance who works at a bridal boutique now, and asked her how she likes the job. "It's not bad at all," she said. "Though it does get to you in weird ways. I'm probably not going to get married for, well, never, but I've got my whole wedding planned out now, down to the place card stationery."

There are houses with attics and basements; humid summers broken by thunder, the sharp blue and orange of a high-altitude autumn. There is a rocking chair by the fire, stairs that creak. There is wireless internet access. Whole bean coffee, sushi mats in the left drawer. A nomad pauper dreams of the most mundane of comforts the way a nine-to-fiver dreams of the tropics: Ethan Allen and a mortgage, now that's exotic living! The luxury of a steady routine hovers like a mirage. I've got a long ways to go yet.

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