Quiz: My calendar, or my 18 year old niece’s calendar?
My niece went off to college. We stay in touch through Facebook, texting, and we even spoke on that old-fashioned telephone contraption one time. Listening to her describe her day-to-day, I realized how nearly undecipherable our lives have become from one another. Our calendars look so similar in fact, I challenge you to determine whose is whose.
Person #1
Spends many hours per week opening mind to forensics, blood Spatter, and criminal Psychology.
Person #2
Spent a few years watching Dexter from behind closed-eyes, closed bedroom door, and closed-mind.
Person #1
Wears hand-me-down dress for the first time and gets asked out twice. Deems it magical goddess dress for its intoxicating powers.
Person #2
Donned same magical goddess dress dress dozens of times and got asked if she had pockets for crumpled-up Caprisun.
Person #1
Capoeira dance-fights with sweaty hot guys pretty much all the time. Attends nonspeaking improvisational dance meetings.
Person #2
Yoga-hyperventilates with sweaty middle-aged people twice weekly. Attends allspeaking PTO meetings.
Person #1
Name posted on a confessions page with “you pull at my heart strings.”
Person #2
Name posted on volunteer spot with “your bake sale shift is 8:30 am.”
Person #1
Poses with attractive male for photo while cooking stir-fry in community kitchen.
Person #2
Trips over familial males unloading dishwasher while cooking corn dogs in toaster oven.
Person #1
Looks like this, up close, without makeup:
photo by Cole Dembski-Sullivan
Person #2
Looks like this, up close, without makeup:


