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May 2010

My So-called Advice: on saving money

admin - May 11, 2010

Here’s the latest in my contributions to Lemondrop (the all-things site for women’s lifestyles and issues): My Life on the Suze Orman Diet or, how a cash-only lifestyle can save you hundreds, in weeks. Remember cash? That green, waxy paper stuff that features one of several dead presidents or Ben Franklin? Well, for upwards of four years, I didn’t. Never carried it. Never used it. …

“I’m in business school to get me my M-R-S”

admin - May 10, 2010

Carly emailed the below, hysterical youtube clip on Saturday afternoon. Katie – our Kellogg School of Management girl – responded immediately: “You all have no idea just how completely true this is…” The infamous MRS degree – a decades-old joke that the most valuable thing a girl can get out of a college degree is a ring. This Single Ladies mock from some Columbia Business …

Suburban Sabbatical: the one week assessment

admin - May 7, 2010

Thursday night April 22nd I moved from my Greenwich Village apartment to my parents suburban New Jersey home (why take the day off when your Dad is the equivalent of a professional mover and your life’s contents fit inside a Toyota Sienna minivan?)Friday, April 23rd I moved seven of twelve bags and boxes from the garage to the bedroom I’ll now inhabit and then stared …

Female response to the male mind story

admin - May 6, 2010

Yesterday’s post raised some eyebrows, but the most consistent response from those who commented and/or gchatted was essentially – “yep, sounds about right.” Was anything in this guy’s account shocking to me? No. And for the record – the uncensored version contained some crude assessment of Katrina’s physical nature and the guy’s experience with self-proclaimed “whiskey dick” that seemed unfit for even this blog. To …

From the mind of male: the one night stand

admin - May 5, 2010

Today: One anonymous man’s recount of a Friday night out slash Saturday morning in. Eye-muffs Mom – this is not a tale of our generation’s finest moment… Tomorrow: An assessment of what it means. For him. For her. For us. That is, if it means anything… Also – don’t shoot the messenger. ————————————————Late Friday afternoon rolls around, and I’m sitting at work looking out the …

LA versus New York, chivalry-wise

admin - May 3, 2010

Somehow between this and my last trip to LA a bunch of my West Coast friends have secured relationships. They’re all in varying phases of execution – preparing for a first vacay together; embarking on the first serious relationship of both their lives; re-connecting after years of hhmmm maybe… So on this trip in LA I spent a good chunk of time discussing actually dating …