Are you there Internet? It’s me Rachel. I often have conversations with myself, and/or the Internet. Bring me kitties and lasers, or something entertaining. What can I say? I remember dialing up at a very young age. I’ve been having those almost-30-something on-again-off-again conversation about generations. Whose generation? Well my parents, my grandparents, mine, those [...]
Posts under ‘Staying Positive’
Blame it on the rain
My apologizes to my friends on the east coast. I know you have #snOMG and #snowscrewed and all so don’t judge me when I complain about the rain. It really is nothing personal. I know you have the day after tomorrow outside your door tonight and all, and have been enjoying the miracles of empty [...]
Taking it to the streets: Step Up
It can happen anywhere – your desk, the movies, dinner, while you’re lying in bed – suddenly the fear creeps in. Your palms sweat and your pores ooze. The lights begin to flicker. Not again. The horror, the horror. Oh, Post-tramatic Layoff disorder (PTLD), how you taunt with your visions of unemployment dancing in our [...]
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 [...]
Are there awards for unemployment?
Last night was the not-so-relevant-anymore MTV Video Music Awards. At least this year, they tried. Everyone knows MTV isn’t what it used to be. While the breakthrough channel helped kill the radio star, it’s becoming clearer and clearer that sites like Pitchfork started stabbing MTV in the face long ago. Likewise, the channel contributed to [...]
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 [...]
Dinner Fools
When rent was paid at the first of the month, it became clear that the occasional freelancing checks that once breathed life into (or at least gave mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to) my bank account were suddenly not enough. In addition to pinching my weight in pennies, seeking out freelancing work, and trying to get a “real” [...]
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 [...]