What I've Really Been Up To

I've been working on an essay entitled "The Last Generation," about people who were born between 1977 and 1987. The basic premise is that we came after Generation X (popularly known for wanting there MTV) and yet do not extend the traditional generation length, which I believe to be roughly 20 years. The idea is, we have dealt with so many changes growing up; we remember what it was like when nobody had an answering machine, we remember getting our first answering machine, and we have fully embraced technology. It seems natural to us, in a way that differentiates us from those slightly older becuase they didn't all have ethernet in college, and in a way that separates us from even our slightly younger peers because they take it all for granted; their first computers at school were pentiums with hard drives while we all had Apple IIc's.

We're a generation that hasn't yet matured politically, even though we will be the ones called on to support our economy under the weight of our parents' retirement programs and our parents' backwards education policies that will leave young American workers in 15 years with half the skills of their Chinese and Indian counterparts. We can't understand political correctness and frivolous lawsuits.

We don't care if queers get married! Honestly, aren't there people dying somewhere?

You get the point. I'm still compiling data, so please send me any ideas/facts/anecdotes/studies/funny jokes you feel would be relevant to my pursuit. Please include your date of birth and gender if I don't already know. I'm not going to post my email address, so if you don't already know it, just leave a comment below. I promise to footnote you.

Also, hopefully we can get people to stop calling us Generation Y or the Millennium Generation or other such crap.