My Quarter Life Crisis

I think I am in the middle of a quarter life crisis. Or maybe I am just PMSing...who knows?

My life lately has been narrowed down to two distinct realms. The physical and the functional. I realized that what is missing these days, and most likely causing me to feel antsy and in crisis, is the intellectual realm. So today, after I dropped off Noah at my mother-in-law's for the morning, I started thinking about what I could actually do with my time. There was the physical (do my 5 mile tempo run) and the functional (try like hell to get the soap scum off the shower door and slice up the fruit I bought for dinner) but I threw caution to the wind and chose door number 3 - the intellectual.

I drove to Barnes and Noble in search of some essay collections I have been wanting to read. I slowly made my way through the store admiring all sorts of yummy looking books but eventually settled on some Flannery O'Conner and David Sedaris essays. Because of my mood this week - decidedly cynical and caustic - I started with the Sedaris book and was immediately drawn in. I sipped coffee and laughed out loud and finished half of Me Talk Pretty One Day in an hour or so. And...I felt not one bit guilty about blowing off the running or the cleaning. I will get them done, and enjoy them - well, the running anyway - eventually, but they just weren't what I needed this morning.

I hope I am refreshed enough to pick-up Noah and be very zen about his three year old attitude and potty training accidents. Or at the very least, be inspired to turn those things into some laugh out loud essays!