NEW YORK In Which We Can't Handle Most Or All Of These Things
Tuesday, July 21, 2009 at 10:59AM 
25 Things That Are Just Too Real for Me Right Now
by REBECCA WIENER
I've been going through some Stuff recently. I'm trying to think about this as my year of magical thinking. But sometimes it feels more like my year of mmmmphfnggmggghh. Things are pretty OK these days, but as my loyal and patient friends and family can attest, I'm a little sensitive about some things. I've been keeping a list.
2. Emails from my dad with cut & pasted articles about how men are like this and women are like that
3. Google ads
4. Reality Bites
5. "Moving to Berlin"
6. Slate and/or NYT Style Section pieces about reverse sexism, eating disorders or birth control
7. Richard Serra
8. Nesting blogs
9. Billy Joel and Katie Lee Joel
10. Emails from my dad with cut & pasted articles about how Obama isn't living up to his promises
11. Joni Mitchell
12. The comedy of Michael Showalter
13. BBQ banter about how New York is a succubus and we should all escape before we lose our life forces, but how we won't because where else can you get a good bagel and go to a bodega at 2 am and oh god oh god shut the fuck up
14. My fat fucking cat
15. McCarren Park
16. Ariel Levy's profile of Nora Ephron
17. Michael Jackson songs performed by children
18. Julia Allison
19. Revolutionary Road
20. The state of American health insurance
21. Posters for Orphan
22. My student health insurance
23. Emails from my dad with cut & pasted articles about how there are too many overeducated single women in metropolitan cities
24. Ben Folds and Regina Spektor duet "You Don't Know Me"
25. This American Life segments on bed bugs
Rebecca Wiener is the senior contributor to This Recording. She is a writer and designer living in Greenpoint.
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