2019-10-01 Cosmopolitan

July 4 CALENDAR 1m ago

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Invitation to $quad

October 18, 2019 @ 8:00 PM

DEBATE

I’m young enough to have

a ton of plans but

too old to remember when

they’re happening.

Oh,go

od.

La

ur

en

’s

ta

ati

iag

.n

M y wo r k lif e is lit e ra l l y

dominated by calendar

invites—for meetings,

deadlines, meetings

about deadlines. So I

kind of hate also having

to deal with them for stuff

like “Bachelor night with

the girrrls!” Plus, there’s

something almost

shame-y about being

f o rc e d t o c a n c e l a n o f f i -

cial invite instead of

sending a quick “I hate to

do this, but...” text. And

sometimes, invites are

jus t p o in t l e s s. I h a ve a

friend who lives across

the country, and when-

ever she visits, she sends

cal invites for random

museum trips and ice-

cream stops. I appreciate

the hustle, but girl, can’t

we just see where the

wind takes us? (Never

mind that we’ll be

together the entire time

she’s here—like, she

s l e e p s o n my c o u c h.)

But mostly: Because

#Technology, all my cal-

endars are synced up to

my phone’s iCal—where

every single day now has

a dot in it and I get

approximately 4 million

notifications. It makes

things that are supposed

to be fun feel stressful. I

jus t wa n t t o c hil l w it h a

marg and no schedule. Is

that too much to ask?

PRO CON

I recently made a

decision that felt more

like a personality

change: stop overcom-

mitting to social stuff

and then canceling all

the time. Which is how

I became one of Those

People who sends cal-

endar invites for every-

thing. Dinner with the

group text on Friday?

I’m hitting ’em with a

cal invite. Brunch with

one other person on

Saturday? ~Cal invite~.

A friend coming to

town who wants to see

everyone at the clurb?

You’re alllll getting that

cal invite, guys. In the

wise words of Britney

Spears, I’m not a girl,

not yet a woman—like,

I’m young enough to

have a ton of plans but

too old to remember

when they’re happen-

ing. Plus, invites guilt

everyone into showing

up (I’m not above it!).

“Sorry, forgot!” doesn’t

work when this shit has

been on your sched-

ule for weeks. The best

part, though, is that

invites now also hold a

sacred purpose: They

let me know when I

have a night off. TBH,

I’m one step away from

sending cal invites for

that too.

PATTY CAMEROTA,

social media editor

HANNAH SMOTHERS,

staff writer

Two Cosmo staffers

throw down.

Should you

be

that

b*t ch

who sends cal

invit es t o,

like, drinks?

TY

LER

JO

E.

life

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