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January 2011

My car battery and my status as a woman

admin - January 31, 2011

Last week my car battery died, and I decided that it’s ok to need a man in your life. I promise the rest of this post will be less dramatic, but not by a lot. It was a Thursday night and R and I were on our way back from Thousand Oaks, California where we’d gone to see my good friend Paul in his performance …

Kate Middleton quit her job, should you?

admin - January 28, 2011

*photo credit: Ben Stansall, AFP / Getty Images In case you’ve been away from the Internets for the past three days, Kate Middleton quit her job to prep for the wedding to Wills. Naturally this news has the International press in a total tizzy, so I decided to join the party with my own take for AOL’s MyDaily.com. Agree or disagree? Like or dislike? Kate …

A few more things to learn from The Duke Sex List Girl

admin - January 26, 2011

I promise this will not be a blog post beating of a recently deceased horse. The other day my friend Becca e-mailed me an article about the unfortunate collection of student issues that have arisen at Duke University over the past few years. It was ingeniously titled, “The Hazards of Duke” (note: if you include a pun in the title, I will read it). The …

2011 New Year’s Resolutions: Better Late Than Wronger?

admin - January 24, 2011

New Year’s resolutions are not for the indecisive, or the chronically over-achieving, or people carrying 8 bullet-point to-do lists over from 2010. Unfortunately, right now I’m all three. It wasn’t until this past week that I finally crossed off the last task and deemed myself ready to start thinking about how to live my 2011 life. Ready to start thinking about, being the operative sentence …

A 40-something issue that’s more 20-something in my book

admin - January 21, 2011

My friend Mark e-mailed around this op-ed by writer Tim Kreider earlier this week. “Brilliant read,” he said. The Referendum(new york times, September 17th) Brilliant read was right. I strongly encourage you to peruse it yourself, but for purposes of maybe-you-have-a-lot-of-work-to-do-at-work-today, it’s about a man’s thoughts on how we personally choose to move through life, and how we view the choices of others relative to …

L.A. Month 4.5: Can you wait too long to move to L.A.?

admin - January 19, 2011

I developed this fairly well-rehearsed speech right before I moved to L.A. – partly out of necessity, though I only just figured out who exactly needed it. Everyone I encountered wanted to know why I was moving, how I was feeling, and when I’d come to this decision. By the time I was ready to move I’d perfected my lines to the point of answering …

On doing the long distance thing – or not

admin - January 14, 2011

To be totally honest, I haven’t written about the lost distance thing because I don’t know what to say. I’ve never really done it. There was a brief, undefined something with a guy in D.C. while I was in New York, but I don’t think you can count it if it ends before it’s defined. And then I did first meet R while he was …

News round-up: 20-something topics you should know about

admin - January 12, 2011

Keeping it simple today with a round-up of interesting tid-bits, news stories, and new sites across the Internets. Miss Dani Rosen is visiting L.A. this week, so I’m otherwise occupied trying to prove that I know where I’m going, and how to park once I get there. The New York Times highlights the trend of niche online dating. – Compatibility is rooted in like interests, …

My attempt to explain the “single girl badge of honor”

admin - January 10, 2011

Bear with me. This is a little hard to explain. The other day I was trying to express the fact that sometimes I have these moments where my “single girl badge of honor” rears its head. It’s almost devil-on-the-shoulder style – this tiny voice scoffing and then rolling her eyes at whatever couple-y activity I’m about to engage in or “we”-based compromise I make. “You …

Who should say “I love you” first, and why

admin - January 7, 2011

Some people are always concocting half-baked theories about why things are the way they are in the interpersonal department. Theories like why some girls are always attracted to assholes and why some guys seems to prefer crazy girls and why after three months you know if you really want to be dating someone or not. Some people think they know everything. Other people dole out …