I always tried to be honest on my blog. Like some greater blog god was going to judge me and strike me down with spam for not being brutally honest. I won’t lie there were times when I’m like this story would be so much better if I didn’t have to admit that I was [...]
Posts under ‘Fear’
Self-actualization via the crazy
Congratulations are in order. And by that, I mean I’m going to congratulate myself. I’ve made the jump from all-out unemployment to the realm of part-time underemployment. Translation: I am wedged in between the lowest tiers of Maslow’s self-actualization pyramid! Huzzah! Still, it’s progress and I have my sights set on what I want. My [...]
Jimmy Carter is NOT here to make white, racist friends
Larry King said it best – “Former President Jimmy Carter stirred up a hornet’s nest with his remarks about race yesterday.” Indeed he did, because (surprise!) that’s exactly what happens when you actually talk about race in this country. White people, black people, liberals, and conservatives freak out. Michael Steele, a republican who’s black, spoke [...]
Sally Jessy, my geek to chic Obi Wan
When I went to bed after eating three or four Krispy Kremes (always a mistake), I found myself tossing and turning throughout the night. At first, I got a little nervous. My roommate and her family invited some sort of psychic/witchdoctor into their circle in order to address various personal issues… Apparently, my roommate’s twin [...]
Days of Panic: September 11, 2009
I woke up this morning and avoided watching the news or reading the (online) paper. I knew what today was and, to be quite frank, didn’t want to deal with the media coverage of September 11, 2009 – eight years after the day we know we will never forget. The problem with unemployment and my [...]
Unemployment’s Night Out
Tonight is perpetually in Vogue Anna Wintour’s “Fashion’s Night Out” event. It’s an excuse for celebrities, designers, the high brow, and the low brow to come together throughout the five Boroughs of New York City, encouraging people to spend money that they might not have in the name of fashion and the economy. I wonder [...]
Puppy love
Remember your first puppy love? Whether you were a freshman in high school, college, or you were an even later bloomer, that first insanely intense crush has the ability to make you feel like you’re flying, falling, and floating all at the same time. Typically, the next step in puppy love involves your heart being [...]
Let go, let flow
I’m totally ashamed to admit this, but one of my favorite movies to watch over and over and over again is Something New, starring Sanaa Lathan and Simon Baker. You see, I’m the kind of guy who typically likes horror movies. Intense ones. I love films with severe decapitations of Dario Argento proportions. Lucio Fulci’s [...]
The pain of being unemployed
Everyone and their mother sent me Tara Parker-Pope’s “The Pain of Being a Redhead” article from the New York Times last week. Us gingers are rumored to already have fiery tempers, liberally libidinous attitudes, and — as someone wrote in the comments section — we are associated with “general insanity and alcoholism.” Now, it’s been [...]
Big city dreams
I’m just a small town girl who moved to the big city with big dreams… just to find out, the only way to make it in the big city… is to shake it. And that’s what I do — at the Coyote Ugly. And… scene! With today’s excess time, I found myself rediscovering a kinship [...]