I know it's not All About Me...

But I wish something could be, sometimes.
Even "my own life" is not really mine at all. I mean, I can pick what channel--even that's not a ton of choice, given that a lot of them want to play, say, "Seinfeld", "Friends" or The Office in near-perpetuity...I even like them all, at different times, but, yeah, don't really think that was the freedom my people went to Ellis Island for. Find myself rooting against Jim and Pam these days, though, since them as a steady couple was pretty much of a boring fizzle.(Could it have been otherwise? With all the expectation? Still, maybe British Jim and British Pam brought out more of the best in each other.)

I can stay up and read(Got another one of those books that is supposedly about The Way We Live Now(TM) and the reviewers practically claim to have wet themselves with the hilarity of it all. It has its moments, but I would love, just once, to find these things as funny as they do. But I don't, you know, more trend-piece rich-guy problems, with the occasional witticism about synagogues that I'm sure i don't quite grasp like someone who knows. I think people read these books to "prove" that people a few rungs ahead of them aren't really happy with their nicer stuff.
Maybe they aren't. But one thing about being me, is nobody is looking to switch with me.