book a week geek

Lately I have been trying to convince myself that I should quit my job and run away and do something crazy with my life.  I probably won’t do this, because I am by nature an extremely anxious person and I like to have things planned out and I am a little bit of a perfectionist.  [...]

While I have been doing loads of readings this week (I read both Dan Savage’s Skipping Towards Gomorrah and Sarah Vowell’s Take the Cannoli and am 75% done with Koren Zailckas’ Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood), I feel a little too high-strung and anxious to tackle talking about any of them at [...]

Itinerary for Traveler:
OMC
Lainer
Fri, 15MAY09 CO20351 L PITTSBURGH
(PIT) 11:30AM NEWARK EWR
(EWR) 12:58PM ERJ-145
Fri, 15MAY09 CO887 L NEWARK EWR
(EWR) 4:55PM PANAMA CITY
Gonna see myself a canal. Shiiiit.

Here in Inconsistent-weatherville, PA, sometimes the prospect of glorious spring and summer days to come is all that keeps me going, trudging through the cold. Yesterday I seriously had boogers frozen to my scarf. Gross. I like winter. I really do. But, there comes a time when I am like, [...]

I take some things really seriously. Like bad celebrity fashion and bookslut reading. These are not things to fuck around with. I take resolutions less seriously, and though this might come as a hit to my self-esteem, well, it’s the truth. I have no will power. The only resolution I [...]

I discovered today that I have a dangerous, scary obsession with the Beyonce video for the song “Single Ladies.” I have to confess that I am actually mesmerized by it. I don’t even like music videos. I don’t even like Beyonce. BUT THAT SONG IS SO CATCHY. And the video! [...]

I was startled to realize recently that apathy no longer interests or amuses or attracts me.
Seriously, am I a grown-up?
Weird.