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Let’s Get Ready To Rumble, Ponies!
My hometown will never be the same. Also, today I learned what a “Met” is. When the Binghamton Mets announced that they would be changing their team name and opened up voting on a list of several options, the backlash in my small town was very negative. “Why are you changing the name? We hate change!” was the…
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Pardon the Interruption…
When I saw the film Girl, Interrupted as a teenager, I was convinced that it was the scariest film I’d ever seen in my life. I watched it once, I doubt I ever will again. That movie ruined the song “The End Of The World” for me (you know which scene I’m talking about). Ever since that…
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Currently… in November 2016
FEELING: Completely numb. It’s funny, I read back over last month’s “Currently” post and remember how desperate and stressed out I felt. I feel like a week after I wrote that, things took a massive turn for the better, and things started looking hopeful, and then immediately plummeted back into terribly depressing territory. If October was…
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Deconstructing The Love Affair With Zoella
As an Anglophile, I’m shocked it’s taken me so long to discover the beautiful world of Zoella, but rest assured, I am making up for lost time. With two YouTube channels full of a plethora of videos and numerous guest appearances on her friends’ channels, a newly-minted Zoella fan has hours of content to glut…
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Good News: Cute Things Are Cute
Liz Climo‘s illustrations are freakin’ adorable and super funny. If you’re a fan of TNG, you have to watch this adorable fan-video made by a kid. OMG. It’s so hilarious. The hashbrown that Troi was saving “for years!” cracks me up. Dena Landon’s story over at xoJane about Tindering with her 5-year-old son is at…
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One Thousand Paper Cranes -aka- Job Applications
To Whom It May Concern: I have begun keeping a tally of jobs that I’ve applied to since the last time I got turned down in the final throes of *almost* being employed. I haven’t really been keeping numerical track of these applications, which I fill out at a rate of almost a dozen at…
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“Start Days” and “Finish Days”
Ah, the ongoing saga of my fight with the “To Do List.” From trying to (and mostly succeeding) (mostly) incorporate LISTS into my life, I’ve learned that my productivity on any certain day will fall into one of two categories: “Start Days” or “Finish Days.” Start days are the days when you have loads of…
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Christmas in October
It isn’t even Halloween yet, and I’ve already made a Christmas Spotify playlist that’s over 3 hours long. And I’ve been listening to it since September. I have become that which I once hated. I’m going to be a Grinch up in here and suggest that it doesn’t have to do with Christmas at all! I always do…
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What’s Going On With Me, LAAAATELYYYYY…
I know, it’s been quiet around here. Almost…too quiet. What’s been going on with me? I interviewed for a couple of jobs, made it through to the third round of interviews for both, and… Nothin’. Still nothin’. So, that’s a bummer. I took a surprise trip out of town. I went to Target. I woke up…
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The “To Do” List
As Mrs. Mia Wallace mused in Pulp Fiction, “there are two types of people.” Well, I happen to like both Elvis and The Beatles (although if I have to choose, you know I’d pick The Beatles, obvi), as I believe the population can be split into two different types of people: people who make lists, and people who hate lists. As…
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The Backup Plan
So this week has been a ride! It started off pretty good, everything going well, things were looking up, even! AND NOW I’m here on the couch like, crying and watching animal videos and feeling completely hopeless. Let’s give this a run-down: I had a couple of job interviews that I thought I had done well at, but then…
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Gender is DEAD! That’s the Good News this week!
Last Friday, I listed 7 things that made me exceedingly happy, and I enjoyed sharing so much, that I decided to make “a thing” of it. So welcome to the Second Weekly Edition of my Good News posts. YAY! Good news, for once! So as I was compiling the things I enjoyed this week, I…
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“Self Care” Was At My Fingertips All Along
“Self care” is trendy. I would go so far as to say “self care” is the buzzword of 2016. And the way 2016 has been going, we all need a crapload of self care. When the “self care trend” started happening, I scoffed. It sounded so woo-woo, hippy doo — this coming from a girl…
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Send No Penis, Please
You guys, I had a whole other post written up. I was all set to tell you about awesome stuff on the Internet and my cool new nails and then somebody. Somebody sent me a penis. In theory, I like penises! Penusi? What is the plural of penis, when it regards the receiving of multiple peni into…
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Cold Feet
It’s autumn/winter here in New York City, or as I like to call it, “Double Sock Season.” I think I must have the coldest feet of any human being. My feet are literally ice. I think in a typical year, I’m numb from the ankles down, October through May. Speaking of “cold feet,” as I type…
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Yes, I’m An Egg-cellent Cook
There’s a little saying that goes, “when life hands you lemons, make lemonade.” And when life hands you eggs and a fridge full of nothin’ but leftovers, you make BRUNCH. Aw yes, folks, I’ve been cooking. That’s right. ME! Cooking on the fly, making up recipes. And I’m going to share the wealth of my knowledge with you.…
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Tweet Relief
Holllllly shit, guys, Twitter has become Something Else these days. Politics-as-usual has become politics-as-unusual-as-it-gets. Trolls are everywhere. Hashtags are grim. You gotta have those guilty pleasure accounts to break up the monotony of horrifying trending topics of you’ll go slowly mad, mad I say! Let's talk about 6, baby. Let's talk about the 2 and…
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Get THE SELF-ESTEEM WORKBOOK, Seriously!
So this story begins where it’s been all my life: a slow supernova of self-loathing and self-fulfilling prophesy expanding in a fireball of snowballing problems, sitting in a therapist’s squeaky leather chair. “Would you like to try something?” she asks. I always say yes, because she’s the professional, isn’t she? It’s not like anything I’ve ever…
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Does This Cartoon Squash Look Like Donald Trump?!?
like, kind of, right? (photo of cartoon squash courtesy of ME, c/o the previous tenants who put this sticker of a cartoon squash on the refrigerator)
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Don’t Hashtag Pray For Me: Prayer-Shaming On Social Media, By Your Favorite Atheist
ARGH I’m probably going to piss a lot of people off by saying this, but please, bear with me. This whole “Hashtag-Pray-For-Somewhere” shit has GOTTEN OUT OF HAND. So it used to be, back in The Day (which was like, a year ago? Two years ago?), when a catastrophe happened somewhere, you’d…