According to the brochure we're about to become hip blissful urbanites. Upon closing the deal on a two bedroom in a TIC near Alamo Square we will acquire our new status as "HUB'S" or "BHU"s", its like the new yuppie. I, as one of the prototypes of this new demographic, will be able to define its style, look and attitude. I feel tremendous responsibility to shape a suitable mold from which the all the following BHU's are to be cast. Seeing as how achieving this title will have a long term constraining effect on our spending habits, I'm thinking everything I happen to own right now will have to do as far as early BHU fashion goes... one old suit, lots of dirty jeans, mismatching socks, some sweaters and sweatshirts and a few pairs of serviceable sneakers. (I should also include a pair of good new jeans that took me several months and about five returns to get right, which meant turning the project over to Sarah in the end.)
As for my idea of BHU attitude: Cautious lack of pessimism bordering on optimism with an ever vigilant weather eye on the western sky. Healthy paranoia balanced by measured apathy. Maybe the ideal should strive for being one or two notches short of every criteria for diagnosable disorders in the latest version of the DSM. If the book says 30 days a year for so and so disorder, the BHU will do it 28 times a year.
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