A vacation. A vacation from your problems.

admin - November 12, 2008

After taking the Enneagram personality test for the seventh time I decided my seven identical results must be fairly accurate – I’m an overachiever. Right. I feel like the character in a Far Side cartoon… Home videos show that I have always been this way. In one infamous family video my two sisters are dancing around to Raffi on the record player shouting, “Daddy watch …

A game-time decision

admin - November 10, 2008

I know someone who recently broke up with someone on account of failure to perform to the expected level during a college football weekend. He invited her onto sacred ground for a sacred weekend with sacred friends. She wasn’t into it. He wasn’t into that. They broke up. Yes it sounds like the tritest reason to end an otherwise excellent relationship, but upon full explanation, …

An Open Letter to the readers of this blog in Austria, India, Singapore, Bermuda, and the UK

admin - November 7, 2008

Hi you guys! Thanks for reading! I can’t for the life of me figure out how you found this blog. The web really must be both world and wide… I know you’re there thanks to a nifty “site meter” that pin points the locations of readers on a map. Scary, right?!But really finding this thing was only half the battle. It’s written in a version …

Date it forward

admin - November 6, 2008

I’d like to see more of the following going on. I tell you I’d like to be dating — that I’ve given it a lot of thought, and right now I’d like to be going on dates with nice guys whom I might eventually bring to BC football games. You then rack your brain for every possible available and excellent guy you know and come …

I knew we could

admin - November 5, 2008

Today is a historic day. The kind of day where you forget about boy troubles and work stresses — where you’re compelled to say, “thank god, right?” to anyone wearing an Obama ’08 button. It’s the kind of day where state pride surfaces (that’s my New Jersey!!! 15 point margin!) and national pride returns (only in America could we come up with that CNN hologram …

Booby-trapping our way to maturity

admin - November 4, 2008

Apparently we all suffer from (a certain degree of) multiple personality disorder. A recent Atlantic article on the way the mind goes about decision-making suggests that there really isn’t one governing body in control – not one sane mind deciding if the devil or the angel shoulder wins. Says the author, Paul Bloom, “The idea is that, within each brain, different selves are continually popping …

The Matt Log: Week Four, Still No Matt

admin - November 3, 2008

Anna wants him for herself. I’m sure of it! She’s avoiding introducing him to me because she thinks she has a future with him. Today, this: “Anna, I’m so sad that you haven’t introduced me to Matt yet…” (Approach #3, the guilt-trip). “Jessica – I think you lie to me. I think you have boyfriend and you no tell me.” (Um…wtf Anna) “Anna! You think …

In-costume conversation

admin - November 3, 2008

Friday night was Halloween. Well, technically it was the whole day but for the purposes of this and most discussions, it took place at night. Geanna, Katie, and I went out to a few bars because that’s where they serve alcohol and play music. I was dressed as a mullet* (suit-style front, party paraphernalia all over my back. Right. Business in the front, party in …

November 2008