Your Unemployed Daughter

photo credit: rocketlass

Well, hello there. Welcome to 2010!

Yesterday, despite all of my mother’s advice to start the year out right, I actually did no writing at all, but instead went to brunch, then a movie—It’s Complicated, and I’d just like to say that I would like my life to be complicated in the way that Meryl Streep’s life is complicated if it means Alec Baldwin, a gorgeous house with a huge garden and perfect tomatoes, and my own bakery where I make the most delicious chocolate “cwahsont” in the universe—then Sephora (yay, new “compact,” which I was told was something only grandmothers say, yay, Clinique Youth Surge, which I’m sure will prevent me from being mistaken for a grandmother), then Lululemon (yay, new workout pants with hot pink cuffs), then dinner (yay, dinner) and too many glasses of wine in my hood with L.

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Imagine my surprise when—after a Union-Square-based meeting to discuss a potential job opportunity, the requisite trip to Barnes and Noble, a visit to Lululemon for workout gear, and a stop by Sephora for a replacement compact—I arrived in the vicinity of home, looked up, and found myself face-to-face with this display of fall foliage.

Only moments before, I’d also come upon a fruit market and procured three giant, juicy apples.

This all drives home the point that it’s only a week til Thanksgiving, as I was reminded earlier today. And yet, I feel so YOUNG! How the time flies.

POP QUIZ: Can you answer the following about the picture?

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