Interesting weekend...
Steve, being back in town for break, gave me a ring on saturday, and we went for some coffee at Safehouse. we chatted for a few hours, basically catching up on the months; and since he's the only friend who will give me a ring, when he's in town, it was my chance to find out what the fuck is up with my friends who have disappeared without a word to me edgewise.
Since then, i've been replaying a chapter from Sex, Drugs, and Coco Puffs by Chuck Klosterman. It's the chapter called "being Zack Morris", in which he deconstructs Saved by the Bell, and it's parallels to life; more specifically, i can't get over the Tori Paradox.
in a nutshell, the Tori Paradox, explains why for half of the final season Jesse and Kelly are seemingly absent and replaced by Tori. In the first half of the season when Jesse and Kelly are present, Tori is absent; and vice versa, with no mention of the absentees...ever. but are they absent? no. they are just in another part of the SbtB universe that remains unseen; life, as we view it, continues for zack, slater, screech, and lisa with or without Jesse and Kelly, or Tori.
I hope you get all that, because i've come to realize that this Paradox is my life: with or without me, my friends--SGers, and Non-SGers-- keep on living their lives, doing there thing; and i do the same. Steve is finishing up his theater degree up in flagstaff, doing "copious amounts of drugs". Bryan is being bryan, living with jessica, doing more drugs than steve, and being his usual self. zej reclaimed his masculinity from his (now) ex, only to pop a mutual friend's cherry in drunken remorse. and so on with the rest of them all...unaffected by my absence
and i'm working, living my lonely life; but untrue to this paradox (or perhaps playing with it perfectly), I keep wondering how they are, but have been unable to contact them--since i'd no clue where the tucson-dwellers are. but i don't quite know how to feel about this: I'd like to make lemonade, take it all in stride, and be happy; but i'm saddened by the notion that my friends don't even bat an eye in regards to my absence, let alone even realize that i've not been around.
Steve, being back in town for break, gave me a ring on saturday, and we went for some coffee at Safehouse. we chatted for a few hours, basically catching up on the months; and since he's the only friend who will give me a ring, when he's in town, it was my chance to find out what the fuck is up with my friends who have disappeared without a word to me edgewise.
Since then, i've been replaying a chapter from Sex, Drugs, and Coco Puffs by Chuck Klosterman. It's the chapter called "being Zack Morris", in which he deconstructs Saved by the Bell, and it's parallels to life; more specifically, i can't get over the Tori Paradox.
in a nutshell, the Tori Paradox, explains why for half of the final season Jesse and Kelly are seemingly absent and replaced by Tori. In the first half of the season when Jesse and Kelly are present, Tori is absent; and vice versa, with no mention of the absentees...ever. but are they absent? no. they are just in another part of the SbtB universe that remains unseen; life, as we view it, continues for zack, slater, screech, and lisa with or without Jesse and Kelly, or Tori.
I hope you get all that, because i've come to realize that this Paradox is my life: with or without me, my friends--SGers, and Non-SGers-- keep on living their lives, doing there thing; and i do the same. Steve is finishing up his theater degree up in flagstaff, doing "copious amounts of drugs". Bryan is being bryan, living with jessica, doing more drugs than steve, and being his usual self. zej reclaimed his masculinity from his (now) ex, only to pop a mutual friend's cherry in drunken remorse. and so on with the rest of them all...unaffected by my absence
and i'm working, living my lonely life; but untrue to this paradox (or perhaps playing with it perfectly), I keep wondering how they are, but have been unable to contact them--since i'd no clue where the tucson-dwellers are. but i don't quite know how to feel about this: I'd like to make lemonade, take it all in stride, and be happy; but i'm saddened by the notion that my friends don't even bat an eye in regards to my absence, let alone even realize that i've not been around.
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And your puppy.
I really, really want to read that book.
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