What Are You Doing In The Fall?

Collected Agenda #9

WHAT I DID 

Wednesday, August 28

I’m back from El Salvador. I'm back from The Hamptons. I broke the air conditioning in my apartment but it’s not too hot, the air is just still. No one has been here this August and that’s not what I intended for this summer, but I think that was good. New York is obviously not stale, but anything self-referential is. I've been talking too much about things that are becoming insular. I really liked El Salvador, the ocean, I’m happy to return to my greenhouse apartment. 

I’m eating celery slowly on the floor. I’m beginning my master’s degree. I’m trying to entertain myself endlessly.

Back in New York, at dinner at Hop Kee, my friends are talking about The State Of Things. They're talking about The State of New York in particular. The State Of What People Care About. I say something cynical and boring, but then my friends are talking about an increasing d…