Adventureland Page #5

that you're okay

But I don't want you to go on

needing me this way

And I don't want to know

if you are lonely

-Here, have some rum.

-Thanks.

Oh, sh*t.

Sorry, my mother. She's very nosy.

Yeah, she used to read my journals.

I had to start writing them in Italian.

I took Italian for a year.

I went through an opera...

Okay, she's gone.

So, Joel told me that you're gonna go

to Columbia for grad school.

-Yeah.

-Wow. I'm at NYU right now.

Oh, really? Oh, that's cool.

Maybe I'll run into you

on the streets of NYC.

-What are you studying?

-Journalism.

Yeah, I want to be, like,

a travel essayist.

But I want to report

on the real state of the world.

You know, like Charles Dickens,

for example, wrote

what you might call travel books,

but he visited prisons

and mental asylums.

-That's cool.

-Yeah, is it?

-Yeah.

-Okay.

No, it is, it's...

But why do you have to

go to grad school for that?

No, that's a valid question,

but, actually, journalism is kind of

like this old boys' network still.

You need the right connections.

It's very Ivy League, very exclusive.

Stupid. I think my mother would rather

I intern at some Fortune 500 company

or something like that.

-F*** that, right?

-Yeah.

Yeah.

I got to go. I have to meet a friend.

-Okay. Yeah, thanks for the ride.

-Sure.

Hey, I heard you jammed

with Lou Reed.

-Don't believe everything you hear.

-Okay.

I'll tell you about it sometime.

So, where does your band play?

Usual shitholes around town.

I need better musicians.

-I'm starting a new band out in LA.

-Los Angeles?

Yeah. It's going to be cool.

Going this winter.

-Jesus.

-Nasty.

You'll get better at avoiding that.

Hey, guys. Party at my house tonight.

My dad's out of town.

I'm invited?

Yep, that's why I'm telling you.

-Connell?

-You kiddies have fun.

She's cool, right?

You're just smearing that around.

Hey, Sue, I'm a virgin at table games,

so go easy on me.

We're having a ping-pong tournament!

-Hey.

-Hey.

Nice digs.

Kind of begs the question of why the

hell you're working at Adventureland?

Well, you know, my dad's a lawyer.

It's been his life-long dream for

his daughter to work at Adventureland.

-High hopes.

-Also gets me out of the house.

So we can drink your parents' booze.

It's okay?

-Absolutely.

-Yes!

-Awesome.

-Don't touch me.

Hey, I actually brought something

for the party.

-What is that?

-It's a joint.

-Oh.

-Yeah.

Bobby is weird.

I had to go back and get the extra

employee key for the bathroom,

and I went back, I opened the door,

and there were all these pictures

of him and Paulette, naked.

What a weirdo.

Hey, I'm gonna go for a swim.

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