It's been so long. In yet another supreme irony, I am now paid actual money for my writing skills, and I hardly ever write anything. I've given up my amateur status, I suppose. I'm going to return once again to daily writing, and whatever ends up on this page will be published. Well, not WHATEVER. I'll correct misspellings and incorrect uses of the semicolon.*
On Sunday, I was on my couch watching the last episode of "Mad Men." I'd summarily dismissed the DB Cooper theory, but the Coke theory had seemed plausible, even likely. So I liked the ending, and I scoff at the ridiculous idea that it exposed Don as completely cynical. If advertising is intrinsically cynical, then so is all of commerce and by extension, almost all human endeavor.
And that's all, apparently, that I have to say about that. I miss "Mad Men" already, both the show in particular and the absorption in a story in general. I'm sure there's some other serial drama that I could become attached to available on Netflix, but the contemporaneous shared experience would be lacking, and that's the best part. Binge-watching has very little appeal for me; even if I could overcome my belief that it's wrong to binge on anything, I just wouldn't have the time.
Memorial Day Weekend: Two days until the pool opens, five days before swim team practice begins, and just over a month before I start to panic about the fast-approaching end of a long-awaited summer. Hyphens: even better than semicolons. Discuss among yourselves.
* As if either of these would ever happen in the first place. So unlikely. Still, anything is possible.
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