burbs

I'm more of a city girl, and coming here was my first foray back into suburbia since leaving for college. Although I rail against the parking lots, the weekly trash pickups, the humdrumness, and all those other suburban things, I secretly do really enjoy a few things about the suburbs.

(1) I've never had so much space to myself before. And every room has windows and skylights.

(2) It's so quiet. Any noise I hear is the noise I make.

(3) On Friday nights, I don't feel pressure to do something exciting. If I want to go home, wear pajamas, and watch TV, that's OK. Or if I want to go to a big, suburban cineplex and watch a mindless move like Ironman 2, that's OK, too. It's the suburbs.