Ugh
I must cancel plans to shoot my author photo anytime in the next two weeks. Apparently, my skin has decided it does not accept my recent fortieth birthday. It has decided to behave like a sixteen-year-old. Wasn't there supposed to be some perfect moment between the onset of wrinkles and the presence of hideous, suppurating zits? And yet, now I have an oozing pustule smack dab in the middle of one of my many wrinkles.
Can I really be blogging about this? Johnny Carson is dead, much of the country is hiding under twenty-five feet of snow, Abbas is talking ceasefire, and Ayelet is blogging about her pimples.
Sigh.
posted by ayeletw @ 1/23/2005 08:55:00 PM
35 Comments:
I think you're being too hard on yourself. My co-worker's cousin was on the 86th floor of the World Trade Center on 9/11. He broke three windows because the smoke was so bad, and then got upset because he was new and figured he'd be fired for breaking the windows.
He escaped, like so many did not, but even days later if you asked him what he was upset about, it was those windows.
It's called being concerned about something you actually have some control over.
And it's a relief, cause no one can be serious and intense all the time. Well, they can, but it's boring.
Anon said it better, but I was just going to say that it's nice to read about something that is actually real, rather than surreal.
-- T
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This one really belongs back in the “what am I doing wrong” thread, but I was too lazy that day and now can’t manage to post something there … but I think it fits anyway.
I found your blog by chance because of the link to Catherine Newman’s column. I don’t read much of anything online, but I always return to that one because she manages to translate the self-obsession of keeping a journal (at its most basic level) into something lots of people can relate to, internalize, take away somehow. It seems like it has something to do with being willing to address fundamental fears, or insecurities--I don’t know--but it’s bizarre to me that I often finish the column thinking “she’s just like I am,” when she so obviously is not, and when hundreds of people reading her journal perhaps even less like her are compelled to think the same thing. I’m not saying that all blogs should do something like this (yours is the first I’ve read that’s not a friend’s), but because I encountered you in reference to her, it’s been an automatic comparison and this is what I thought of when you asked your readers for their thoughts/criticism.
I take solace in your zits, I honestly do, but the first response to self criticism on that level is, “you’re crazy, don’t be so hard on yourself” kindof stuff. As an ex-Berkeley dweller with some little kids, a turbo job I barely manage, and my own daily word count I always read your blog with a little regret that there’s way more that could be there. Your blog feels more about you than beyond you right now, but there’s something about your style and the combination of things you address that has you right there on the verge of capturing something of this moment in life, and in our world—how crazy and depressing and beautiful and totally fucked up it is. I keep reading because I see this sort of potential. My gut is that you should let down your guard.
I write this with warmth and sincerity. And I thank you for the awesome blog which, in my case, brings a bit of Berkeley with kids to my frosty life on the other side.
. . .and that's why someone invented photoshop! With a few minor adjustments your photo self will glow as flawlessly as, well, all the other photoshopped celebs.
At 18 months postpartum the state of my skin caused me to engage in that most desperate of all acts, yes, I ordered acne treatment from an infomercial. It did work beautifully though so who knew...
I want to hunt down and punish whoever implied that bad skin does not last forever. For me, all through late elementary school and middle school and high school and college and grad school--zits. I get over the zits and what happens? Rosacea! Next it will be wrinkles (and I expect to get that icky scowling furrow between the eyes too). I deserve to have good adult skin at some point, right? I realize this is not a SERIOUS problem, but it is definitely blogworthy, imo.
if you can figure out how to fight both wrinkles and zits at the same time, let the world know. it's a constant fucking battle.
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