Holes (falling into/escaping/avoiding)

A good friend recently left her job and asked for encouragement. The details weren’t clear (and if they were, I wouldn’t be sharing them here) because all she really needed was a hug, and was willing to settle for internet hugs. (I give awesome internet hugs, FYI. Awkward real hugs, but awesome internet hugs.) The […]

February 25, 2013

Weddings & Bodily Fluids

Two weeks ago today my best friend got married. SHE GOT MARRIED. I meant to say something sooner, mostly so that my blog didn’t greet newcomers with that Sad Panda Surprise post. To be honest, my thoughts haven’t really progressed much from, “!!!!” Let me just say, before you go any further, that this post […]

February 22, 2013

What is funny? Why is she laughing?

Years ago, I was driving to Santa Monica with my best friend. We pulled up to the light at the end of Santa Monica Blvd., where it hits Ocean. It was late at night and I don’t remember how or why we got roped into talking to them, but two middle aged men in the […]

January 23, 2013

Melodrama, fever, and lung failure

This blog post is coming to you from my death bed. My death bed, it seems, is a pullout couch in Sherman Oaks, CA. I really had hoped I’d live long enough to watch my best friend get married, but sadly that shall not be. I am afflicted with a very serious case of melodrama […]

January 17, 2013

Photographic Excellence

As a personal blogger, I am morally obligated to put up at least one post talking about the new year or the end of the old year. I should talk about all the travels (first solo international trip!) or becoming an employed person with a business card. These were proud accomplishments. Or we could get […]

January 11, 2013

Parental Win

Important beliefs that I have to share with you all right now: my parents are better than all other parents, supernatural television shows that are no longer on the air are totally worthy of hours of discussion among strangers, and knowing things is very different from emotionally understanding them. (This list is not meant to […]

December 19, 2012

Birthdays & Gratitude

“There are going to be so many people there who are happy,” I complained. I tried to add, “and not stressed out,” when I realized that I sounded like an asshole, but the pause was still there. My best friend laughed at my anxious student whining on our way to the 24-hour café near our […]

December 9, 2012

Time Allocation

Oh look, it’s a blog! Hello blog, how are you doing? I’m doing great, thanks for not asking because you’re a blog and can’t do that unless I tell you to. When I first got to Paris I was required to blog twice a week as part of my program. In spite of the fact […]

December 7, 2012

The end of the world. [vlog] #WBWV

It’s We Blog, We Vlog day! Woo! The prompt is to talk about how you’d spend your last few weeks before the end of the world. Here’s my answer. If you’d rather skip that whole video thing, I have a joint-guest post over at Democracy Diva in which we snark the cinematic atrocity that is […]

November 28, 2012

Participation Ribbon Pending

I have now been informed by a handful of people who are far away from me that this is the only way anyone can count on me to share things, and I have been sucking at it. Part of me is tempted to be dismissive and say that I haven’t been blogging due to a […]

November 16, 2012

moving & nostalgia

California has become something of a mythical force in my life. I was in high school when we left, already filled with more angst than my poor parents should have had to deal with. Along with every high school kid who has ever been forced to move, I was not particularly pleased to move to […]

October 14, 2012

making videos, breaking arms

I am trying to keep the vlog and the blog separate, but it’s only working out about 50% of the time. I broke my arm a week and a half ago and I vlogged about it. I don’t feel like writing about it too. In other, unrelated news: I’m officially moving back to LA. I […]

October 11, 2012