Hey Anna fans…THE FIRST EXCERPT FROM SCRAPPY LITTLE NOBODY IS LIVE!!!! We call it: “He’s just not that interesting.”
The summer I turned 21, I dated a musician named Connor. Well, I thought he was a musician and that we were dating. He thought he was a screenwriter who occasionally played music and that we were “hooking up and not labeling things because labels cause drama.” He was 28 and something of an introvert. I took this to mean that he was deep and artistic and probably judged me for talking as much as I do. Once we broke up, I realized it just meant that he was kind of boring—and probably judged me for talking as much as I do.
But before that, I actually had conversations with friends that sounded like this: “Do you think I’m coming across as overeager?”
“Maybe? Why don’t you just not call him for a while and wait for him to get in touch with you?”
“Well, if I didn’t call him at all, we’d never talk again.”
(Oh. Sweet Anna.)