Author: meghan
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How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Watch Cold War Documentaries (See What I Did There?)
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How are we doing this week? Rough? I hear ya. My Thanksgiving was bittersweet: calm and (mostly) relaxed, overcast and cozy — just how I like it! Now that the weekend is here, it’s back to work, but I thought I’d share my secret to getting through the “holiday of thanks” (lol yeah right…
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GOOD NEWS! You Don’t Have To Hit Those Gross “Black Friday” Sales Today to Get All Your Christmas Shopping Done!!!
True Story: I did the “Black Friday” thing once…like, ten years ago. I think it was 2006 or 2007. Woke up at 4am, went to Sam’s Club and Joanne Fabrics with mah besties. Ate a lot of granola bars standing in lines. Oh, I also worked Black Friday Weekend at Target in 2003. I remember…
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What I’m Thankful For:
this corner of the sofa. You’re great. Never change, baby. Worst Cooks in America on Netflix — thanks for reminding me of a time before terror. Clue for iPhone. Thanks for making sense of my body. I feel more in control and less adrift when it comes to my moods, pain, and periods. …
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The Cake Dream
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On Monday night, I fell asleep on my boyfriend while watching Jean-Claude Van Damme or something, and I had a dream about cake. The cake in my dream was a vanilla cake, light and spongy, half-decorated in white frosting and half-decorated in dark chocolate frosting. Like a giant, fluffy, black-and-white cookie! In the dream, it was…
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When Reality Is Harder To Watch Than Reality TV
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Remember back when we cared about things like Kardashians and who was going to win The Bachelorette? You know, before the Nazis silently took over our country and we were all murmuring to each other in disbelief: “how much worse can it get?” Life after 11/9 has been one long inhale that I’m still holding, holding, holding. 11/9 —that’s…
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Thanksgiving? What Thanksgiving?
Ho, ho, ho, my fellow hoes! I call you “hoes” like “whores” because we all know there’s absolutely nothing wrong with sex work as long as nobody’s being exploited and everyone has given consent! Merry Christmas! Yeah, assholes, CHRISTMAS. It goes right from Halloween to Christmas. TBF, Thanksgiving isn’t even a holiday anymore, let’s…
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My Last Half-Hearted Joke About Tr*mp Before I Either Write About Something Else, Or Hide Under My Bed Until 2020
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I keep checking my calendar because it feels like time just stopped on November 8th. Starting January 21, it’ll start to go backwards! No, that wasn’t “The Joke.” The Joke is that I woke up on November 8th at 4:00am, duh, to go work the election poll site. I had to be five…
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Some Better Suggestions for the Cabinet: Reality Show Stars More Qualified And Less Evil Than Tr*mp
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This election has shown us that less than half of half of the elligible voters in this country don’t know the difference between reality and reality TV, by electing a highly unqualified (*coughRACISTcough*) to the highest office in the country. As long as we’ve fucked up this big, why not go all the way? In…
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Privilege, Empathy, and Survival
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Wow. Quiet. So, we’re pretty fucked. Yeah, it’s been less than a week, and all the Tr*mp-apologist media outlets have been crowing “Come together with the alt-right!” “try to understand the white working class’s ability to overlook blatant racism and threats to your safety because of their anger!” and “give Tr*mp a chance!” So then hate crimes skyrocketed,…
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GOOD NEWS: You Don’t Have To “Be Positive”
Well, hello again, friends. Every Friday, I try to highlight some of the things that have made me happy during the week. As I struggle in the fight against depression and anxiety, I found it helpful to focus even a small amount of my energies towards finding the positive in the every day. This week,…
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Why Blog Today?
Well, what the fuck do we do now? We do the best we can. Only harder. This isn’t me “returning to life as usual,” this is me refusing to be robbed of every last shred of my humanity. Oh, to be fucking sure, I have lost a lot in this election. My faith in rationality, my trust in…
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Please, Please, PLEASE Vote for Hillary Clinton Tomorrow.
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I don’t usually get political — Okay, well, that’s a lie. Well, I don’t usually BEG you to do anything, but today, I’m begging. PLEASE vote for Hillary Clinton tomorrow. I know some of you are still “undecided.” Or you’ve decided firmly, you’ve decided that you hate both candidates and you can’t choose, so you…
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Good News! “SMILE” – The Election Is Almost Over!
What a slog it’s been! Feels like this election has been going on for two years — which it actually almost has. So the Good News for today is that, in two days, we gain an extra hour of sleep (yay!) and in four days, for better or for worse, the campaigning season is OVER. In many…
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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…
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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
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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
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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
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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”
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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…