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November 2012

The How-Many-Good-Eggs-Do-I-Have-Left? Freak Out

admin - November 29, 2012

Last night’s episode of NEW GIRL was called “Eggs” (baby, not breakfast-maker variety), and it raised an important/scary issue that many women approaching their 30s experience. Can you tell me how many viable eggs I have left?  Or, in the words we actually mean, can you tell me exactly  how soon I need to start thinking about having a baby?  SPOILER ALERT: Jess and CeCe …

What It’s Like To Be Off-Line All Day

admin - November 27, 2012

Since the day I started my first full-time job, I have been online all day every day during the work week. That’s five days a week, approximately nine hours a day, approximately 250 days per year for a total of eight years, or in other numbers 2,250 hours spent online (don’t check my math, just know it’s likely wrong). Yes, there were times when work …

Annual List of Thanks: 2012 Edition

admin - November 22, 2012

Hello from my first Los Angeles Thanksgiving. The turkey is the smoker (that one up there. It’s R’s masterpiece), the apple fritter is in my belly (my fave way to start a holiday day), and I’m nestled in to watch the mini bits of Broadway during the parade (slash wait for the Rockettes. I used to want to be a Rockette. I sort of still …

Turns Out People Aren’t Hooking Up As Much As You Think They Are

admin - November 15, 2012

Katie passed me a link to this very interesting article yesterday afternoon. Here’s the gist: “Being intimate with multiple partners while in college has become so expected that it has become a stereotype. And, after a crazy weekend of partying, students love to gossip about who ‘hooked up’ with who.  But that’s not to say every college student is participating in risky sexual promiscuity. In …

Desperate House-girlfriends of Beverly Adjacent

admin - November 13, 2012

As you know I now spend my days as a sort of stay-at-home Mom minus the kids. I’d call myself a housewife, but that’s wildly un-PC, plus I’m not a wife. “Freelance writer” is technically the term, but that doesn’t get to the core of the 10,000 other things I feel obligated to do during the day on account of the fact that I’m home. …

How To Spend A Day As A Full-Time Writer

admin - November 6, 2012

Yesterday was my first official day as a full-time writer. Well, technically it was Friday but I had to celebrate being a full-time writer all day Friday, so things officially kicked-off yesterday. Here is how I organized my endless hours of freedom. 6:30AM: I was awoken by R who had been up for a half an hour already. He tried to start talking to me …

Today Is The Last Day Of My Current Life

admin - November 1, 2012

…dramatic, but true.  As of tomorrow, I am officially/finally/hopefully forever, a full time writer.   GOD it feels good to type that. For the past two years I have worked nine to five, six, and sometimes ten as the Director of Branded Entertainment at a LA-based production company. Before that I was a branded content producer at a NYC-based media agency, and right after college …