September 12, 2006

• midtown girl

  i accomplished something today...i used a powertool to install my curtain rods despite swearing never to touch them again after almost screwing my thumb to a shelf freshman year.

  by "powertool," i really mean just the power screwdriver below, so yes, if you're a huge buff guy you'll probably laugh at me. but, to put things in perspective, the battery alone weighed about 8 lbs and the actual screwdriver was something like 6, so the entire thing was around 12% of my bodyweight. since our place is completely not furnished, i had to stack a couple of dining chairs together to come even close to the top of the wall, and even so, the rod had to go about half a foot above my head. so the entire time i was squinting up at the screw and trying to hold a 14 lb hunk of metal with my puny useless triceps while holding the rod and screw precariously with my free hand.

  anyway, needless to say, the entire ordeal (3 windows worth) took about 3 hours, when a nice muscular contractor probably could have finished in...oh, 3 minutes. but it was strangely satisfying. kinda made me crave beer and...oh i dunno, watch football and make lewd jokes about chicks or something (what do guys even like to do nowadays?) it's such a sense of accomplishment tho...when the screw finally digs into the drywall and the rod is bolted dead to the plaster. i guess for a moment, i could FINALLY understand why guys like to...screw so much.

  anyway, the moment passed and i had to hurriedly get dressed in a nice skirt in preparation for meeting my roomie erika who came down from jersey to hang out. problem was, i was already so sweaty and gross-feeling that i felt kinda out of place in a nice restaurant. like icing on an overpriced manhattan cake, "Uptown Girl" started playing as soon when i went to Bed Bath & Beyond later in the day, making me feel even more butch.

  but looking back at the day, would i really prefer to be an uptown girl all the time? it'd be kinda bland (and i wouldn't ever had experienced the great satisfaction that is powertools!!) so yeah...not prissy chauffeur-abusing uptown girl or hearty childbearing beef-stew-guzzling downtown girl but something in the middle would be perfect...like a midtown girl?

   

   

     

   

   

   

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  on the flipside, maybe i'm already disgustingly yuppie-fied, but i really, really didn't like walking downtown today. as soon as we reached the 40's, i was suddenly irritated by the increased frequency of sewer smell, the puffs of dust, the construction, the crappy little stores selling crappy electronics, the milling crowds and confused tourists and just...the masses and masses of people. i missed the clean skyscrapers that surround our crappy little place in east midtown (mostly bank highrises), and the delicious yuppie lunch i had with erika at djando. most scarily, i actually missed walking amongst businesspeople dressed in powersuits and golddiggers decked out in dior.

   

  oh god...and so it begins...

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