For the foreseeable future, I will continue to live in the same apartment. I will continue to live alone. Financially, it makes sense (the rent will have gone up only $35 in six years), but I wonder if there isn’t something more to it than that.
Although I’ve lived in this particular apartment for five years [...]
So I’m kind of a raging skankbot today.
Over the last couple of months, I’ve been trying this new thing where I don’t wash my hair. I’m not saying I don’t wash it EVER! I’m just trying to achieve that mythical and ever elusive “second-day hair.”
Ken Paves (who no matter what jeans she wears, has Jessica Simpson’s [...]
After five years in this city, I find myself no better at bus seat selection. I get flustered and dismayed that everyone is looking at me and my mind is screaming “HURRY UP get out of everyone else’s way!” I board the bus, scan my card with a hello to the driver, and briskly approach the [...]
Every work week I’m at Union Station to catch the Metra to the suburbs. Most of the time, I mindlessly force my way through the crowds of incoming commuters, shove my way down the stairs, and board my train. This morning I wondered, what if I didn’t?
What if instead of getting on the local commuter [...]
Funny story: I cut my hair over the Thanksgiving holiday. I say “funny” because I look like I am now in the witness protection program. I cut over SEVEN INCHES(!) of my hair off and dyed it FIVE SHADES(!) darker. Although I CHOSE IT(!), I can neither confirm nor deny that I have buyer’s remorse. [...]
Sometimes I’m such a little girl. It’s a sad confession I make to you. I’m a twenty-nine year old woman who successfully (somehow) maneuvered her way through college and graduate school into (mostly) gainful employment, who moved herself from a small town surrounded by corn and soybean to a city of 2 million, who survived [...]
Can we talk about something?
So you know how I’ve gotten sucked into FB (yes, I just admitted that again. I also acronymed it. What’s more, “acronymed” isn’t even a word so I’m two for two), well I’ve been witnessing the most….distressing?…trend among some friends of friends (i.e. people I know from high school but whom [...]
