Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
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 [...]
Filed under: break ups suck more, cohabitation, crossroads, domesticity is overrated, family matters, just say 'when', neither here nor there, singletons, work in progress by Nic
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
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 [...]
Filed under: Twilight, is janky the same thing as wonky?, neither here nor there, work in progress by Nic
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Monday, January 25th, 2010
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 [...]
Filed under: city encounters, educating the masses, in transit, neither here nor there, poor choices, public transportation by Nic
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Friday, December 4th, 2009
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 [...]
Filed under: in transit, neither here nor there, public transportation, quiet desperation, wanderlust by Nic
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Sunday, November 29th, 2009
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. [...]
Filed under: awesomeness, creative time management, educating the masses, neither here nor there by Nic
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Sunday, June 14th, 2009
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 [...]
Filed under: Just Another Day in Crazy, a thing of beauty, crossroads, fanciness, i heart fashion, neither here nor there, quiet desperation, work in progress by Nic
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Monday, March 16th, 2009
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 [...]
Filed under: Just Another Day in Crazy, WTF, anyone out there?, creative time management, educating the masses, friends, hateful, haterade, neither here nor there, romper room, things people say, write on by Nic
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