Bieber Fever

No, I do not actually have a fever over Justin Bieber, but I do enjoy pop culture these days more dare I say than I did when I was a market-driving, trend consuming teenager.

Why? Maybe it's because I work for an organization that needs to be up-to-date with what kids think is cool. Maybe it's because unlike the first 24 years of my life, I now have time away from homework, applications, and extracurriculars and a tired career-brain to relieve instead, with lots of frivolous nonsense. Maybe it's because, unlike my teen days, I can take or leave fads without it affecting my identity. What was once crucial to my knowledge of the world is now fluff, recreation, and a treat to indulge in.

I like how I can be a sophisticated, together young woman (some days) and still be counting down the hours until pop culture events of the summer like the Twilight Saga's Eclipse release in theaters/The subsequent release of the Hillywood parody music video, and The 2010-2011 NBA season draft pick (I am thinking, and now hoping, it's The Bulls for LeBron, becase 1) The Celtics Assistant Coach was just made head coach in Chicago, 2) Joakim Noah's hair is cooler than Varejao's, and 3) I bet my mom really wants to start watching bb again once another Bulls dynasty is set up (right, Mom?)).

Justin Bieber is pretty cool, don't get me wrong, but there's so much media to observe (OMG cat and What the Buck on YouTube; The Cecily von Ziegesar GG series books that I shamelessly checked out of the Young Adult section of the library last weekend) that he and his Zac Efron copy cat hair flip are only part of the youthful equation.And maybe, just maybe, all this is due to the scary potential fact that at 25, I am turning the corner from trying to grow up as fast as possible to trying not to get "old," which S considers 30 and up.

Speaking of being a cross between a college kid and an old fogey, I cannot not wait for my quickly impending next Ikea project - an entertainment center! We need one now that the motherload of all boy-junk, the gaming desktop computer, is making its way to the apartment via S's parents this weekend, and our desk (the most appropriate space for a big computer, no?) used to be where we kept the TV. Let's just say there's been lots of obsessive home staging going on by me, and we'll all now be a lot happier with our Ikea treasure assembled and ready for good use!

Wish us luck blending households. :)