A few weeks ago I went with my visiting cousins and sister to The Bar where I spent so many formative years of my 20s; it’s a rite of passage when people come to town. The Bar is such a part of the journey my sister and I–oh, yes, she worked there too–have taken in [...]
I am so, so sorry for this lame blog post wherein I straight-up just cut and paste my tweets, but I am a) kind of on a roll, and b)super bored. (Do you follow me on Twitter and Facebook? Please do. ) hilarity_shoes Hilarity In Shoes HURRICANE UPDATE:Nudist flash mob jumping in puddles. I’m in! [...]
1. Love this Whole Foods Parking Lot rap, and love it especially that he name-checks Humboldt Fog cheese, the best cheese in the world. (via @floridagirlindc) Sample lyrics: “I’m about to check out/Pay my 80 bucks for six things and get the heck out” 2. Grammar pet peeve: When I was a child, my father relentlessly corrected [...]
This week, it’s been 18 years since I moved to DC–as long as I lived in Ohio. When I arrived in DC on a brutally hot August day, I’d only been in the city once before, for orientation, and my mom and stepdad hadn’t come (my dad brought me, in a 1978 lime green Pontiac [...]
I don’t think it was loneliness that spurred me to start dating again in 2009. I think it was hopefulness (and horniness.) My life was in a bit of a flux, as I was just coming out of a period of working maniacally around the clock and every weekend for a couple of years, and [...]
1. I went to see The Help with my mother at her local mall at noon on a weekday. I was pleasantly (if snobbishly) surprised to find that there were a few dozen people in the theater, mostly 50-something ladies of a certain age and bearing*, all of whom were talking about how much they [...]
I drove to Ohio in a kind of fugue state Saturday, the kind of driving that seems like it can’t have been good because I can’t remember one second of it. I listened to a lot of podcasts. Then I got home and returned my mother’s dog to her and let her treat me like [...]
1. I am off work next week. Going to Ohio for most of it and New Hampshire for a couple of days, where I will do my best to live free or die. (I love that state motto, but I think it could be improved with some more punctuation. What if there was a movie [...]
It’s (at least a little) funnier than it sounds. I made it.
Today is hard, for some reason. Nothing I do distracts me from the brick of sadness that sits in my stomach, interfering with the important work of my diaphragm. I keep catching myself taking deep, almost gasping breaths. Like that is going to change anything. It’s a very first-world problem, I know. I feel a [...]
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