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August 2011

My annual birthday blog post

admin - August 7, 2011

Do you only technically turn a year older at midnight in the time-zone where you where born? So, if you’re born in London but live in New York should you officially celebrate your birthday at 7pm the day before your date of birth? The thought only occurred to me today. Today, for the first time in my now 28 years I opened my eyes in …

“The calm” – a piece of stolen relationship terminology

admin - August 4, 2011

I’ve found that a very strange thing now happens when people ask me about my relationship with R. I have nothing to say. “It’s great,” I told my sister Dani over gchat. “We’re really good,” I said to Katie via text. “I’m good, he’s good, it’s… “Good?,” my friend Annie parroted back over brunch this past Saturday. “Right,” I said. “I feel so lame saying …

The Checking-Out Series: Being forced into a wrong corner by today’s economy

admin - August 1, 2011

Below is the latest in my series from guest-writers looking to purge their “I checked-out” stories for the betterment of us all. Today’s story comes to us from MLB and contains an interesting look into the state of the education system.. Enjoy, and please send your own tales my way – 20Nothings@gmail.com. Although I haven’t “checked out” from my unhappy status-quo, for the past six …