"It sucks to be single, unemployed and almost twenty-three...yes, it sucks to be me!"

No, dear, no...this is not *K going through a bad spell; the above, although uncannily descriptive of yours truly's state (without the negativity, I must add), is not a personal lament, but rather a line from a fabulous Broadway show - Avenue Q!



Yes, I spent a lovely evening with 'fellow-New Yorkers' Princeton, KateMonster, Rod, Christmas Eve, Gary Coleman, Bad-Idea-Bears and Lucy The Slut (among other charming friends!) in their homey neighbourhood of Avenue Q.

We danced (well, they did) and sang (I kinda did) and laughed (we did) along to many issues close to the heart of fresh grads, the unemployed, singletons & Gary Coleman (yes, he deserves a category to himself). Much wisdom was shared by the delightful characters and their puppet-selves. Below are some highlight-snippets, most of which won't make much sense without the greater context. But, this is my blog, and it'll make sense to me.



From: "I Wish I Could Go Back to College"

Kate: I wish I could go back to college, life was so simple back then.

Nicky: What would I give, to go back and live, in a dorm with a meal plan again?

Princeton: I wish I could go back to college, in college you know who you are. You sit in the quad and think, Oh my God, I am totally gonna go far!

All: How do I go back to college? I don't know who I am anymore!

Princeton: I wanna go back to my room and find a message in dry erase pen on the door...whoa whoa whoa...I wish I could just drop a class.

Nicky: Or get into a play.

Kate: Or change my major.

Princeton: Or (beep) my T.A.!

All: I need an academic advisor to point the way! We could be sitting in the computer lab, four a.m. before the final paper is due, cursing the world cuz I didn't start sooner, and seeing the rest of the class there too! I wish I could go back to college! How do I go back to college?

Princeton: I wish I had taken more pictures.

Nicky: But if I were to go back to college, think what a loser I'd be. I'd walk through the quad and think, Oh my God!

All: These kids are so much younger than me!

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"There's a fine line between love & a waste of your time" - KateMonster

"If you re-arrange the letters in 'unemployment', you spell 'opportunity'!" - Gary Coleman



"What do you do with a B.A. in English? What is my life going to be? Four years of college and plenty of knowledge, Have earned me this useless degree. I can't pay the bills yet, 'cause I have no skills yet; The world is a big scary place, But somehow I can't shake the feeling I might make A diff'rence to the human race." - Princeton

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From: Screen shots (There are scenes on a TV, as is done on Sesame Street when they have a new word to learn, or whatever...)

"come-mitment" ----> hillarious if you know the scene before that (Ok, I'll tell you, the scene before that involves KateMonster & Princeton 'doing the pretzel'.)

"Five night stands" -picture of five night stands- / -four night stands removed- / "One night stand"

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Ah, a lovely evening at the theatre, followed by a stroll about Broadway, conversations with strangers, a latte & some pie. Plus, I spotted the star of the show taking a walk along my route with some pals of his - Bonus! I'm a happy camper, I say. *insert wink, with wink-music* ; )