I was trying to hang my shelves back up in my new apartment and gave up and started writing this. One of my old roommates who had done construction and painting odd jobs tried to teach me how to hang things up, but drywall crumbles very easily. It’s harder than it looks. I’m very attached to the idea of self-sufficiency though. When I told my sister I was hanging shelves, she was shocked I (kind of) knew how to use a drill. You learn interesting skills, she said, being single.
You do learn a lot of interesting skills being single. At a party, a girl I met told me about how her boyfriend had broken up with her right before they both moved to New York. She had been ghosted repeatedly by a man off a dating app who had become her white whale. She was obsessed with him. She had seen him on the train that day and done a little smile and shrug which she hoped looked cool. She showed me the smile and shrug and I said it looked cool, and she said I was obviously going to say that. She showed m…