So I recently went out with a group of women, only one of which I really know well, though I've met all of them.
And I was thinking in preparation and I was like, oh maybe we'll talk about what we're watching and I can talk about Severance and how I just finished Arcane. Yanno, normal topics of conversation.
And instead I sat there an entire meal where the conversation never once left the topic of everyone's jobs.
And me, with my purple hair, and disability, and lack of job just sat there like, oh yeah I very much care about the temperature of your office and the staff meetings and what your coworker said.
I think the only thing I contributed to the conversation was when taxes were mentioned and I threw out the difficulty of doing my small business taxes and people were basically like oh you should just pay someone for that and all I can think is no that's food money, but by all means go back to talking about how expensive the houses you want to buy are.
Just I genuinely forget what Normal People are like sometimes. How...boring. And for the record, like these people should all fall in the geek category. They are at least geek adjacent. One at least is queer. (Besides me.)
But my god I could not have cared less about just about anything discussed that night.
I saw a very similar group of people three days later and the longest topic of conversation then was...sports. And none of us were all that into sports, except for two Hockey Girls.
I was so relieved when the group changed and I was with two of my normal friends and I could go "so I finished Arcane" and then the three of us geeked out loudly without stopping for like 20 minutes.
All this to say, like, you don't have to Grow Up and Become Normal. You really don't. I want to hear about what music you're listening to and the TV you're watching and the book you're reading and god do I not want to sit around complaining about weather and taxes just because I'm in my 40s.
