my struggle bus to the gym

Snow day in Paris

February 6, 2012

Yesterday it snowed in Paris. After giving up on my plan to go running, I decided to out and look at the pretty and take pictures and try to appreciate it for about four minutes before I go back to my standard routine of loathing the existence of snow. Behold, a short (and incredibly shaky) [...]

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Get lost. It’s for your own good.

September 21, 2011

Getting lost is a given with travel. You can never really know a city until you have gotten hopelessly lost there. Depending on how adept you are with things like “directions” and “maps,” your formula for reaching that magical place where your number of times lost translates into having an actual sense of your city [...]

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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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Brownie batter is good for my mental health.

September 1, 2010

Last night I was watching television and a re-run of “What I Like About You” came on that ended with Val and Holly throwing chocolate cake batter all over the place. All I could think was, “Fuck, I really want brownie batter right now. Real bad.” So I changed the channel. I spent 30 minutes [...]

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The return of television brings a new assortment of awful shows to drink to

August 26, 2010

Things are reaching a new level of absurd. At present, working at my mom’s art gallery (very) part-time is still my only job. I have had four consecutive days off and I am running out of ways to fill them. On Tuesday I actually yelled at my mother when she wanted to borrow my car [...]

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The struggle bus to the gym, the movies, or just off the couch.

July 31, 2010

Things I Dislike Right Now: Scientology commercials The “Cardio Dance Party” class at my gym Shia LaBeouf The distance between my house and the county fair What I find most bothersome about the Scientology commercials is the fact that when I see them in the haze of my bullshit existence, I start to think, “Wow. [...]

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