How to Survive Christmas [in case...you didn't?]
In what might prove my most irrelevant blog post this year, let’s talk about surviving the holidays. First, do not, under any, any circumstances, stuff a single pair of skinny jeans into that already...
View ArticleCheers 2013
It has, so far, been a great 2.some-odd-decimal days of 2013. Maybe you’re with me [eh...maybe you aren't] when I say I was quite glad to bid 2012 adieu [with friends, like this one...over a bottle of...
View ArticleLet It Linger
Remember that one time I got overly soppy, wept into my keyboard, and wrote this ode to college? Well, a few months shy of a year later…much of the sentiment persists. Life now, despite its feverish...
View ArticleRoomies for Dummies
So you’re getting a new roommate or (*gasp) a roommate for the very first time. Congrats! You now get an apartment, house, condo, duplex, or some other form of lodging that you could otherwise never...
View ArticleHow To Grow Up When You Really Don’t Want To
- Find a job, or jobs, that keeps you working 70% of all waking hours. Oscillate between resenting it and seeing it as your one true saving grace; your salvation in a wasteland of unemployment. Kiss...
View ArticleThings I Learned After Moving Away
Going to college, as ripe an opportunity for growth as it was, pales in comparison to moving to New York. No team, no coaches, no built-in friend group… Wait, no orientations, classes, tutors [what?...
View ArticleLeaving My First [Real] Job
I’ve done it. I’ve been employed by a real company long enough that I can now leave it, and work for a new, also real company. During this tenure, I like to think I’ve wizened up a bit. I mean, …...
View ArticlePick-Nick-Er-Ing
There’s not a whole lot that compares with a good, old-fashioned picnic. Especially for a group of midwest-transplants craving some fresh air. Which is what we are, and what we did! Creamy goat cheese....
View ArticleBonfired
There’s a lot I struggle with when it comes to life in New York (no use putting on a brave face here, right?) — the most pronounced undoubtedly being its horrifying lack of nature. Lack of space. Lack...
View ArticleGoodbye To All That
The holidays always make me a little reflective. I flew back from a weekend of family adventures in Missouri to New York last night and as I tried to ignore my row-mate’s obscene snoring, I closed my...
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