I am a debacle of an individual.

Real person or not, I can confidently say that I will always be a bit of a disaster on legs. My propensity for accidental shenanigans could be an art form. One week in, I have yet to reach “falling in a gutter” levels of epic-story-time but (a) that took two weeks -and- (b) this is […]

September 7, 2011

Oh shit, I’m really in Paris.

I have not forgotten the promised vlog. I attempted to record it three times, but I am so jetlagged and haggard looking it is ridiculous. Mostly it’s a lot of me staring at the camera saying, “Uhhhhh.” Suffice it to say that a lot has happened in the last couple weeks. Waiting to depart my […]

August 30, 2011

Once upon a time I learned to play nice with the other children.

I could not have asked for a better send-off from the US. I leave for France in three days and in addition to the flurry of excitement surrounding my departure prep, I am still reeling from how fantastic my weekend was. In my year of basement-dwelling, teaching, and becoming a gym rat, I have never […]

August 24, 2011

Hey, Future Self. A few things…

Dear Myself c. 2030, How are things? By now you have probably gotten over your aversion to anything that feels like settling down. You’re probably married and have children and are living in a home somewhere in the US and not gallivanting about the globe like you used to think you always would. No judgment […]

August 17, 2011

My favorite place is growing up.

This post is almost two months old and has been sitting in my drafts, completed with the exception of a picture I didn’t have on hand when I wrote it. I forgot about it, it became dated, and it has sat in my drafts feeling sad and lonely. I made some minor changes to fix […]

July 25, 2011

Public Humiliation: Childhood Edition

I keep changing my tagline because I still don’t know what I’m doing with this blog and because I like to pretend that anyone other than me might actually care. Also on the list of bloggy-things-that-only-I-care-about, I redesigned the page now that I have this supremely amazing-but-not-really new tagline that I will change nineteen times […]

July 20, 2011

Missing: One Best Friend. Return if found.

I got my visa! You may now perform the elaborate choreography that you have worked out for the occasion. Leave video proof in the comments. (sidebar: can you? I’ve been singing endless praises of Disqus, but I think that exceeds its capabilities. #wompwomp) The picture I didn’t get to see is now in my passport […]

July 11, 2011

The walking disaster tries to convince the French government to let her in their country

This weekend I went back up to Chicago to visit the family and go back to the French Consulate for Please Give Me A Visa: round 2. As one would expect, because this is me, it was a bit of a debacle. Before we even left for Chicago I was rushed out the door, still […]

July 8, 2011

A new job, Lessons In Things I Don’t Want To Do, and exclamation points!

The other day I made a comment to a friend about my ineptitude with fairly basic things like walking, cleaning, and packing. My first thought was, “I’m blogging that.” My next thought was, “Well that’s pathetic. I need life.” But I have been a bit lazy with this blogging thing lately. My drafts queue has […]

June 29, 2011

Awkward times in a corn field. With feathers.

I really enjoy a good awkward moment when I have a friend present to witness it. Sometimes there are amazingly awkward moments that make me think, “I’ve always wanted to do this, I just didn’t know it.” A couple weeks ago I drove to the middle of a corn field in Illinois to spend a […]

June 13, 2011

Karaoke Ring Of Death

A lot of you already know this story, so I’ll keep it short: Many months ago a bunch of bloggers came up with the amazing idea to start recording themselves doing karaoke. I was actually present for the early conversations about this topic, but promptly went into hiding. I have alluded to the possibility of […]

June 10, 2011

Shitty Movie Awareness Club returns with animated movies

I have been on vacation for the last several days, but I am now at home in bed with some obscure disease, by which I mean I just have a ferocious cold and my body is producing world record amounts of snot. Glad I shared, right? Right. Anyway, the Shitty Movie Awareness Club became a […]

June 8, 2011