I was caught in between all you wish for and all you need

Celebrity sighting #1: Sonia Manzano (Maria on Sesame Street), in the ladies' bathroom at Sesame Workshop (I guess it paid to drink that big cup of iced coffee that morning). She has been on Sesame Street since the 1970s and she looks fabulous!

Celebrity sighting #2: Luke Wilson. I think this is my first-ever legitimate sighting of a celebrity on the street! Actually, I came home and looked him up online and sure enough, he is in New York right now (he's going to be on Letterman tonight), so I will take that as confirmation that it was in fact him in Columbus Circle. I should watch Letterman tonight and see if he reports spotting a striking young woman headed toward the subway.

Owen Wilson has perhaps more quotable lines in The Royal Tenenbaums ("Here I come" and "The wind's blowing up a gale today" among them), but Luke Wilson was once on The X-Files, which means that I am now merely two degrees away from David Duchovny on several levels (counting the time my friend Bekah saw him at a restaurant in L.A. and that girl I roomed with during summer camp in seventh grade met him).

I am slowly creeping toward full-scale anxiety about What I Am Going to Do With My Life (possibly based on What I Did On My Summer Vacation at Sesame Workshop). It's basically the same debate I've been having with myself for the past four years or so, only now exponentially closer to the actual Life referenced in the argument's title. I know that the first job I get after school will not necessarily be the last job I ever have, but things are complicated by the prospect of networking contacts drying up, my midyear graduation date, my thirst for job security and also for a career with meaning -- it all adds up to a big bowl of Oy Vey. On the one hand, I have several months to worry about it, but on the other hand...I have several months to worry about it. And on the other other hand, as my friend Laurel pointed out in her very sweet goodbye card, this is really a time in my life that is rich with possibilities, where all the doors and windows are flung wide open and all the paths are full of promise.

Bring on the horizon!