January 2012
8 posts
ERIC CANTOR LOOKS MISERABLE.
Ahahaha true.
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply...”
– Lao Tzu (via girlwithoutwings)
New blog. →
I’m shaming myself into losing weight and cursing a lot along the way. Rants, ravings, and recipes to come. Today, the longest post this blog will ever see. Tomorrow, learn how to be mildly hungry all the time now that I’m not going to be constantly shoving food in my face.
I want to be a freelance copy editor.
I’ve wanted this since the first time I sat down at the editing table in Journalism with Brendan Price and watched him completely destroy my six-page review of Bowling for Columbine - and when I say destroy, I mean he slid words around, nixed punctuation, slashed entire paragraphs, and made it infinitely better. He was a brutal genius and it blew my...
December 2011
11 posts
2011 was full of highs and lows, but I admit I was crazy lucky in so many ways. I’ve got a full-time job in my intended field, I scored a low-rent studio in a good area conveniently located steps from my boyfriend’s apartment, I now have two lovely cats (on my way to cat lady?), I’ve traveled quite a bit, I’ve figured out who my friends are, and money’s been fairly...
I thought I would be sad this Christmas due to the loss of an individual who was my most Christmasy friend, but I think perhaps those days are over. 2012 promises new people and new goals and a happier outlook. Old friend, if you do happen to stalk this place occasionally, I’m done. Goodbye. I hope your girlfriend never finds out you cheated on her with her worst enemy. WOMP WOMP.
Also I...
Watchthedailywhat:
This Is Funny, You Should Watch It of the Day: Funny or Die’s legendary Drunk History returns with a very special inebriated recitation of “Twas the Night Before Christmas,” starring Ryan Gosling, Eva Mendes, and Jim Carrey as St. Nicholas.
[funnyordie.]
Ehehehe.
Oscar Wilde's Tomb Sealed From Admirers' Kisses →
When I went to Paris alone a few years back, I met a guy at my hostel and had an entire relationship (from the honeymoon phase to the brutal breakup) in the span of 2.5 days. It was one of the weirdest interactions I’ve had in my life. He was one of the most damaged and damaging people I’ve ever encountered, and somewhere out there he is undoubtedly still being a miserable prick to...
Plans for 2012:
1. Be more politically active/aware
2. Volunteer at 826NYC, as mentioned
3. Dismiss those who no longer wish to be a part of my life & be more proactive about seeing the people who matter
4. Learn how to alter and eventually sew my own clothing
5. Figure out a craft I’m particularly good at & revisit the idea of an Etsy store
6. Spend less, save more
7. More traveling
8. Go to...
826NYC →
I just submitted my application to volunteer here. I am SO glad I remembered this place. 826NYC is a non-profit dedicated to keeping the love of writing (and learning in general) alive in kids. They do tutoring, workshops, field trips - the works. And it was founded by one of my favorite authors ever, Dave Eggers, who was way more excited about my NYU friend when I met him a few years ago, but...
Wizarding World of Harry Potter was ah-mazing, and the vacation in general was pretty awesome. Jorge and I sort of winged it and managed to get in a lot of family time and a lot of driving and eating. There were some bad times, like when I suddenly couldn’t see the highway because of foggy rain and freaked out or when Jorge got a ticket from the MTA. But overall, good times. It’s weird...
November 2011
11 posts
Long story short, I extended an olive branch only to be shit upon today. I’ve apparently been “deleted” from the life of someone I cared about deeply for two years because I vented publicly in the immediate aftermath of my moving out debacle. I have not a single regret about doing this - I won’t ever apologize for expressing myself. I’m a writer. It’s what I do....
Last night, saw the ex roommate/ex best friend/non-romantic ex at a party of a mutual friend. His girlfriend jumped when I appeared on the roof, probably safe in the assumption I wasn’t coming since I was (in true Columbia fashion) an hour and a half late. Her interactions are so obtuse sometimes. I only knew them by their silhouettes and my boyfriend grabbing my hand since my glasses were...
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution...”
– John F. Kennedy
OWS.
I’m avidly following the livestream of OWS and watching out my office window, since things are exploding today. It’s nice that I can work and get paid while people without jobs kind of protest on my behalf. I’m way more on-board with them after the dismantling of Zuccotti Park, but there’s one thing they do that drives me absolutely crazy: they yell at cops about how...
Dear Tumblr,
Please never do that “CENSORED” shit again. My heart is about to explode because I assumed my boss had implemented some program to stop my break-time surfings.
No Love Today,
Lauren
Work is a lot better than when I initially bitched about it for three months straight. My coworker and I have a rubber band ball going. I have a bigger desk. I’m not as quiet anymore. People seem to like me a bit more. We’re moving to Brooklyn possibly this winter, which will mean finally having windows and sunlight.
Outside of work, life is a lot of boy time interspersed with friend...
Things:
1. I have extreme panic attacks every time I head to Columbia for fear of running into a certain former roommate who I believe tends to lurk there. I walk close to hedges and wear my glasses so I can clearly survey my surroundings only to remind myself that I was there FIRST, and so in the divorce I have rightful claim to Columbia unless he should re-enroll there at a later date, at which...
October 2011
12 posts
Dear Coke Talk: On occupying wall street. →
dearcoketalk:
You said in “On Occupying Wall Street” to call you when there’s blood in the streets. Now that it’s been a month, and there’s blood running in the streets, has your opinion changed at all?
Sure, my opinion has changed. A month ago Occupy Wall Street was fairly flaccid and unimpressive, but…
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Things for which I am excite:
1. Seeing Conan in NYC and taking the day off to do so, November 2nd
2. Florida with the manfriend, November 24-30th
3. WIZARDING. WORLD. OF. HARRY. POTTER. November ?
4. All of my dreams coming true (at the Wizarding World of HP)
5. Halloween partying! (Though I still don’t have a costume idea…)
Yay!
My coworker is moving to Seattle with her husband in two weeks and when she talked about how she’d never been there before this past weekend and she bought a small house and would be working this job from home, I was really jealous. I’ve been getting stir-crazy from having been only in New York and nearby areas since March - this isn’t unusual for most, but for me it feels too...
List of demands? →
This was posted on September 25th so I’m not sure how accurate it is given the (seeming) gradual evolution of the protest over the last week, but if these are actually the demands of Occupy Wall Street…I have no words. My brain exploded reading this list. If I had time to sit and go through why each point does or doesn’t work, I would, but I think most rational people can read...
On occupying wall street.
dearcoketalk:
fuck you for your lack of support to the wall street kids. you must be pretty fucking out of touch with reality. those ”bunch of fuzzy-headed antiglobalization dorks loitering around lower Manhattan confusing their own vegan farts for a whiff of revolution” include my friends, many of whom are forced to work shitty underpaid jobs without insurance just to eat. my best friend just...
I got a kitten, I figured out a general plan to decorate my kitchen (moar vintage alcohol ads, pls!), I’m spending way too much money lately, I’ve gained waaaaay too much weight in the last year, I am going to the gym every weekday and not totally hating it, I am not good at yoga because it is too serious, I finally put plants out in my apartment, I’ve got a boy living with me...
September 2011
3 posts
Things I am obsessed with lately:
1. Getting another cat
2. Creating pretty things for my apartment
3. Eating everything…then talking about joining a gym
4. Interior decorating/collecting vintage decor
5. The idea of staying in bed for an entire weekend
6. Going to Florida for Thanksgiving (and Wizarding World of HP!)
7. Finally having a functioning TV + basic cable (one week!)
8....
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9/11
Ten years ago tonight I was at the Michael Jackson tribute concert with my mom watching MJ perform before heading home from Madison Square Garden around 2am. We missed our connecting train and didn’t get home until 4am, and I went to my 8th grade classes the next day. When the planes hit the twin towers, our teachers were told not to tell us what had happened. Kids were being pulled out of...
August 2011
5 posts
My former best friend’s birthday was a week ago and I only just realized this and thought how crazy it is that someone who meant so much to me in so many different ways over the past couple of years is that level of gone now - at least, from my consciousness. My subconscious has other ideas on the matter. Well, I guess I saved money since I didn’t get him a gift. That’s good.
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Life update because I don’t feel like sleeping because it’s the weekend? Okay! Everything is kind of stabilizing now to the point that I feel like I have time to try new recipes (tonight was chicken marsala YUM!) and it’s nice to come home, watch some Mad Men with the cat and the boy, eat some good food, and not think about homework. Work is still mundane and alternative options...
anewboxofcrayons:
I got the job!!! I now have 3 jobs. LOL.
But now I will be a sign artist for Trader Joe’s! So that’s pretty cool.
STEPH! You are the greatest!! Please take pictures of your work so I can see! <3
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Guys, the world is scary as fuck. According to what I’ve been reading on the internet, my fate is in the hands of a bunch of rich, psychologically unstable strangers who seem to scare very, very easily. Why this is true, I haven’t a clue! My plan is to sit tight and work my job with limited complaints henceforth because I’m pretty lucky to even have one. I’ve got enough...