Another spontaneous family trip. More generalizations about why I turned out this way.

I have no idea why I try to blog about anything other than how ridiculous my family is. This blog should really just be a chronicle of the random things we/they do. I love when my friends meet my family. At my Rocky Horror cast party last Halloween, my little brother showed up around 1 […]

November 20, 2010

Five reasons Risha Rao is better than you.

Today is not actually August 13th. It’s actually November 13th, but I’m really bad at dates and times and things because life after college is really hard so we are going to pretend it’s August 13th. So on this day (August 13th) in 1960 the CAR declared independence from France. August 13, 2008 was the […]

November 13, 2010

Once upon I time I pretended I was still in college, rallied for sanity, and got a lap dance…

“I can’t remember the last time I went to a bar. I also can’t remember the last time I got drunk.” Things I said Thursday evening: both of those statements. Things that are no longer true: both of those statements. I have decided that maybe everyone else I know doesn’t want their business all over […]

November 5, 2010

Bloggerstock: Spooky (guest post!)

IT’S HALLOWEEN! This is one of my favorite holidays and I could tell you all about why, but that’s not the purpose of this post. Today is not only Halloween, but it’s also October Bloggerstock day. You can find my post professing my undying devotion to this magical holiday over at the lovely Seen and […]

October 31, 2010

Hey mom: Thanks for making me cry. No really, thank you.

In my last post I said that my sister chickening out bothered me because of the sense of personal responsibility I feel for her awesomeness. This is true. It’s my parents’ job to make sure she becomes a well-adjusted, well-educated, contributing member of society. It’s my job, as her sister, to make her awesome. It’s […]

October 24, 2010

Sometimes my sister is less awesome.

In the few months that this blog has been in existence, I have dedicated a significant amount of space to discussing the awesomeness of my little sister. She can be really awesome sometimes. Except for all the times that she is not. Saturday night was one of those times. With our parents out of town […]

October 18, 2010

Blogger Carnival: Adventures in Backpacking

This month’s Blogger Carnival asks bloggers to post their best travel adventure and potentially win a sweet language course from LiveMocha. (If you take the 2 minutes to sign up — for free — using that link, you can actually hook me up with some free stuff from LiveMocha. Just saying…) Given that 85% of my awesome happy times […]

October 12, 2010

Important Road Trip Lessons

If the world is trying to tell me to drive less, it should really consider reevaluating its tactics, since I am a little slow when it comes to these things. Yes, I understand that ridiculous catastrophes keep happening. No, I don’t see how driving less is the answer. My brain cannot compute that possibility. It’s […]

October 9, 2010

Concert seat upgrades: success and failure and how (little) I have progressed as a person

Over the summer I had big plans to get a job in LA and finally come “home” after eight years of obsessing over my big tragic middle-class displacement. The abysmal economy and my complete ineptitude when it comes to the process of job hunting colluded to create a rather different outcome. Instead of living on […]

October 2, 2010

My latest road trip has taught me that I am either really old or really need more naps. Verdict pending.

Somewhere around hour 18 or 19 of my road trip to California, I was devastated to arrive at the conclusion that I am getting way too old for this. I was thinking back to the countless cross-country road trips I did in high school and I could not remember it ever feeling this awful. I […]

September 29, 2010

Bruised knees are better than bruised egos

Being a real person is exhausting. I am not entirely sure I like it, though I have not yet chosen to dislike it. This subject clearly needs a more comprehensive investigation. At the moment I have two jobs and I might be getting hired for two more. My life consists of work, the gym, reading, […]

September 24, 2010

As long as I maintain an unhealthy relationship with television, I never have to be a real person.

I think I might be turning into a real person. I find the lack of long-term stability in my “jobs” comforting enough that I can still consider myself only vaguely employed. But this week, for example, I’m working over 40 hours between my mall-job and my job telling kids to stay away from drugs and […]

September 13, 2010