recapturing my youth

I have been consuming media about teenage girls as of late. . . Last week, some Dawson's Creek. This week, I have the second season of Gilmore Girls out of the library. I come home from work & sit in front of the TV or my laptop & watch the Stars Hollow crowd live their lives, not living my own. I also checked The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants out of the library. It is apparently a big hit in the young adult fiction market. A story about four best friends who all look great in the same pair of pants & ship the pants amongst each other as they pursue their various summer adventures: visiting grandparents in Greece, soccer camp in Mexico, working at a horrible minimum wage job, visiting the divorced father. Yeah, so I suppose it means something that the protagonists in the TV I watch & the books I read are all 10 years younger than me. Even my current novel, The Life of Pi, is about a teenager. . .

More media: read my family's published discussion of movies here. [You'll have to scroll to page 8, there is some cheerful reading on an abortion controversy that you'll pass by.]