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December 2010

How real/right is that “How to be a 20-something” article?

admin - December 17, 2010

You may have heard about this “How to be a 20-something” article making its way around the Internets. The source is the blog Thought Catalog, a clean and simple site that publishes essay-style thoughts from accomplished writers across all genres. “How to be a 20-something” is written by Ryan O’Connell – one such 24-year-old, East Village-based contributor whose bio reads like this: Along with creating …

Re-write: Learning to speak relationship

admin - December 15, 2010

I’m re-writing last Wednesday’s post – the one about learning to speak relationship. When I wrote it, it didn’t feel quite right. I think I launched into it wrong and made it jokey-er that I originally intended. I re-read it the other day and decided I missed the point I was trying to make. It’s not that what I wrote isn’t true. It’s that it …

The blog is a year older today – and maybe finally wiser

admin - December 13, 2010

The blog is three years old today. Three whole years ago Pierson and I took our incessant gchat conversations from private to public for the purpose of…we had no idea. Truly. I can tell you the goal wasn’t to end up in Los Angeles three years later pursuing a career in entertainment. And while that result certainly isn’t wholly owed to this blog (sorry Mom, …

Learning to speak relationship

admin - December 9, 2010

The most awkward part about your very first job is never the job itself. You probably went to some liberal arts college where you studied some non-practical subject that lead you to some entry-level job based on a description that included things like, “self-motivated” and “detail-oriented” and “multitasker a must.” The tasks themselves were everything you’d been warned about, and you could (did…) knock them …

Today, two years ago: maybe the problem is he likes you too much

admin - December 6, 2010

It’s only for very good reasons that I miss writing a new post on my Monday, Wednesday, Friday schedule. Today’s very good reason is that I either have a stage three sinus infection or stage two brain cancer. So on account of the fact that the world is currently most bearable when I’m horizontal in a dark room (but, isn’t that always the case?), I’m …

Guest Post: I Survived My 10-Year High School Reunion and Learned Absolutely Nothing

admin - December 1, 2010

Today the guinea pig to my entire life – my one-year-older cousin (slash former roommate) Geanna – is playing guinea pig for the rest of us with a guest post about her recent 10-year high school reunion. Trust me, Geanna is as discerning as they come, so this assessment is a real as it gets. ————————————————————————- This past holiday weekend, I went home to the …

How responsible is the pill for our 20-nothing ways?

admin - December 1, 2010

I usually meet articles that pretend to understand the 20-something condition with a little bit of skepticism and a lot of defensiveness. No matter how broad a look they take or how many people our age they interview, it always feels like being shown a picture and told you’re third from the left when you absolutely know you’re third from the right. I’ve developed a …