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Adulthood: needs more tie-dye.

November 30, 2010

While I was in college I did a lot of tie-dye. More tie-dye than one would expect from my school. It is a fairly liberal institution, but it’s hardly the artsy-fartsy tree-hugger mecca one would expect from my college tie-dye wardrobe. For GW students, this tie-dye is readily explained by the amount of time I [...]

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As long as I maintain an unhealthy relationship with television, I never have to be a real person.

September 13, 2010

I think I might be turning into a real person. I find the lack of long-term stability in my “jobs” comforting enough that I can still consider myself only vaguely employed. But this week, for example, I’m working over 40 hours between my mall-job and my job telling kids to stay away from drugs and [...]

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Let’s just have cocktail parties and look at old family photos instead of applying for jobs, k?

August 20, 2010

My parents’ willingness to harbor me seemingly indefinitely has allowed me to only apply for jobs I actually want, which makes rejection sting that much more. It has even reached a point where I actually appreciate rejection emails, since so many people don’t even bother with that. The fact that I get so excited about [...]

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