Life After Graduation

Cold showers, complaints, and a bucket

May 4, 2012

Do you know what is quite possibly the most miserable thing out of all of the things? Cold showers. They are a special kind of torture. My advice for cold-shower-taking is to begin frantic humming before you actually direct the water onto your body. That way, you are already warmed up for the squeal-like noise [...]

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Having so many things to do that remembering all the things is the most important task

January 20, 2012

It has been an insane few weeks. I was ill to the point that I was rendered a barely-functional-human-being when I flew back to Paris. A friend I have known since freshman year of college was also arriving around the same time. Since my disease-addled brain got in a brawl with jetlag, my reaction to [...]

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So what exactly are you doing with your life?

October 27, 2011

Today we are going to play a game called, “It’s my blog and I do what I want.” This post is long and devoid of pretty pictures and contains only tangential references to Paris. It’s filled to the brim with WHOTHEHELLAMI questions and a tiny bit of “This is what I think about the world.” [...]

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Clumsiness Is Not Cute

October 6, 2011

Romantic comedies and Disney have told us so many lies and given us so many misguided expectations that I could easily dedicate an entire blog to breaking these struggles down one by one. Suffice it to say that reality is thoroughly disappointing. I am slapped in the face with the inaccuracy of one particular lie [...]

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Moving: worst thing ever? or worst thing ever? Discuss.

September 29, 2011

Moving sucks.  I could try to dress that up and put it more eloquently, but there’s just no way around the fact that the succinct version rings so incredibly true. I found a new place and today I sort-of-mostly moved.  I still have another haul of crap and I’ll probably sleep in the old place [...]

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Once upon a time I learned to play nice with the other children.

August 24, 2011

I could not have asked for a better send-off from the US. I leave for France in three days and in addition to the flurry of excitement surrounding my departure prep, I am still reeling from how fantastic my weekend was. In my year of basement-dwelling, teaching, and becoming a gym rat, I have never [...]

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Hey, Future Self. A few things…

August 17, 2011

Dear Myself c. 2030, How are things? By now you have probably gotten over your aversion to anything that feels like settling down. You’re probably married and have children and are living in a home somewhere in the US and not gallivanting about the globe like you used to think you always would. No judgment [...]

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Missing: One Best Friend. Return if found.

July 11, 2011

I got my visa! You may now perform the elaborate choreography that you have worked out for the occasion. Leave video proof in the comments. (sidebar: can you? I’ve been singing endless praises of Disqus, but I think that exceeds its capabilities. #wompwomp) The picture I didn’t get to see is now in my passport [...]

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A new job, Lessons In Things I Don’t Want To Do, and exclamation points!

June 29, 2011

The other day I made a comment to a friend about my ineptitude with fairly basic things like walking, cleaning, and packing. My first thought was, “I’m blogging that.” My next thought was, “Well that’s pathetic. I need life.” But I have been a bit lazy with this blogging thing lately. My drafts queue has [...]

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Awkward times in a corn field. With feathers.

June 13, 2011

I really enjoy a good awkward moment when I have a friend present to witness it. Sometimes there are amazingly awkward moments that make me think, “I’ve always wanted to do this, I just didn’t know it.” A couple weeks ago I drove to the middle of a corn field in Illinois to spend a [...]

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