Getting lost is a given with travel. You can never really know a city until you have gotten hopelessly lost there. Depending on how adept you are with things like “directions” and “maps,” your formula for reaching that magical place where your number of times lost translates into having an actual sense of your city […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
As I seem to constantly forget what month it is, May seems to have crept up on my like every other month of the year did before it. Apparently I am really fucking easy to creep up on. We’ll add that to the never-ending list of Things I Need To Work On. (Why haven’t I […]
As my college roommates can attest, my room tends to fall apart at a pace consistent with the disarray in my life generally. I confess that I am not a particularly neat person to begin with. I know this. But every now and then I hit this wall where I lose the will to do […]
I only had a few hours to hang out in DC before we had to load up the car and drive home. Somehow, a few hours skulking around my former college campus was more than enough to give me an unending, “!!!! I am just. so. uncomfortable.” feeling. Yet when given the option to go […]
Last week was rough in subtle and unexpected ways. I mentioned that I broke up my first fight as a substitute teacher. That was a little less subtle. Most frequently, it was being confronted by my own limitations, both personally and within the opportunities made available by my jobs. For both of my current jobs, […]