Real life
When I was teaching English in Reunion and I used to tell my friend Michael that I needed to get back to the states and to a "real job." He used to correct me and tell me "teaching English is a real job." At the time I felt that my job was a sort of "practice job" for a real job, maybe with an NGO. Then I worked with an NGO for a year and realized that every task in the "real" working world is not quite as efficient and meaningful as I might have imagined.
A customer was in the restaurant today and she had gotten wind of the fact that I have done a lot of traveling in the past few years. She asked me what I had majored in at K and then asked, "so when you stop working here what are you going to do, like in your 'real life.'" At first I was stunned, then I laughed and shrugged in that classic Lindsay manner and said "this is it, this is my real life."
A customer was in the restaurant today and she had gotten wind of the fact that I have done a lot of traveling in the past few years. She asked me what I had majored in at K and then asked, "so when you stop working here what are you going to do, like in your 'real life.'" At first I was stunned, then I laughed and shrugged in that classic Lindsay manner and said "this is it, this is my real life."
posted by Lindsay at
9:59 PM
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Just so y'all know - all these stories are true! There is no way Lindsay could possibly make these up. As they say, true life is much stranger than fiction. Also, in many ways more hilarious than the best comedy.
They are even more enjoyable at the dinner table.
So, I ask, what will you be when you grow up?
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MTV, at 1:42 PM
i think i like it better knowing that my lindsay will always be my lindsay, traipsing around the world if she must, making enough money to do what she wants, but not too much to make her unhappy. the rest of us are just jealous, yo - that's all.
By
o'tasty, at 11:31 PM
True that Laura. In the words of the Notorious BIG "mo money mo problems," right?
By
Lindsay, at 9:08 AM
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