How To Relieve Stress After College

Gah! My friends are getting married!

Here I am without a boyfriend, and all my girlfriends have just gotten engaged, or they’re about to be wedded away! I guess I’m a selfish person, but for some reason I feel I lose a friend every time one gets married. I still see them occasionally, but they lose interest in our typical activities. Gone is the club scene on Friday night. There’s no more dating crazes, or going to concerts to pick up guys. The frequency with which they (and I) drink has dropped dramatically. I guess that’s a good thing, but my life seems a bit less…..wild these days, and I can’t help but blame that on my married friends.

So, Jenny, one of my first friends from college is having her wedding next Saturday, so I’ve got to fly all the way up to Boston to meet her future husband and give my congratulations and my gift, and try to sleep with one of her husband’s buddies at the reception. Ah, the cycle continues.

I guess I’m not too bummed out about the whole wedding business, it has improved my sex life a touch, though the guy’s aren’t quite as…robust. I think the thing I’m really worried about it is being the last. I don’t mind that both Amanda and Mindy got married before I did. They were ready to get hitched at 16. And Julia was pretty much the same. But nobody thought Ally would get married, or at least no one thought she’d get married before me.  And hell, Liz has been married twice!

Maybe that’s the trick. I’ll just wait for all my married girlfriends to burn out and get divorced. Then its back to the girls’ club.

Finally, it’s health time. I’m not really into abs. But if you are, check out this post on getting abs on a high fat diet. The dude writing it is pretty cute, even if he is over 50! And these posts on omega 3 vitamins and omega 3 benefits are pretty good too.

As cool as I like to pretend to be, I’m have a touch of the drama queen in me. I mean the literal drama queen, the girl who hangs out with all the gay guys doing theater in college.

I haven’t done a play in a while, but recently a friend asked me to help run the lighting board for his one act play, which opens tonight.

My first reaction was, “Oh man, that’s going to eat me Friday social life for three weeks!” But then I realized, it might actually BE my Friday social life for three weeks. People come to the theater. All sorts of people. New people. People for me to meet.

And one other thing: Theater people tend to be healthy people. Actors are always “working on their bodies.” And even the techie sorts of people (I guess I’m a techie sort at the moment) tend to be in shape, just because working the stage demands so much physically–hauling lights, climbing ladders, fixing sets, etc.

I wasn’t surprised at all to see one of the actors in the show open her purse and pop some vital omega 3 vitamins. And let me tell, pretty much every actor I know, has been on a weight loss shake diet at some point in their life. It’s just the healthy way. Or maybe it’s the glamorous way. Or maybe, just slightly, it’s the superficial way. But it’s my way.