Things that are not awesome: being cold, getting your ass kicked in laser tag by not only your little sister but also your mother, and getting out of bed. Things that are awesome: just about everything else that has happened in the last week. After writing my silly post about my month-long quest for glitter […]
Sometimes it makes a lot of sense to go back and tell a not-so-recent story without provocation. I’m not just talking about how you’re telling a current story and then it makes you think of another one. There is a distinction between exploiting past stories for blog filler and stories that are somehow significant to […]
I think I had this idea that once I graduated from college, I would become an adult. Once I moved my tassel to the other side of my hat, a panoply of my most immature shortcomings would miraculously disappear. It didn’t happen that way. So then I thought, “Well that’s because they haven’t mailed me […]
We are approaching mid-February. This is the time when the light at the end of the tunnel begins to peek through and I have hope that maybe the snow and cold won’t actually last forever and maybe sunshine and happiness will return to the earth. The tragedy of this month, of course, is that this […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]