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–> I knew my life in LA would be different than my life in New York, but I didn’t really know how – and that’s both how it would be different and how different it would be. The answer is very – very, very, very but what’s weird is that it’s not a difference I day-to-day feel. I guess some people – in this case …
Today is the 500th post. I usually mark major blog milestones with some sap-filled opus about the power of the written word or the inspiration of good friends, or the fact that you too can have all this and more if you just wake up insanely early and only associate with people who don’t care about being misquoted. The 500 mark is no less proud …
This whole Courtney Cox and David Arquette break-up has become a very divisive issue around my various groups of friends (seven weeks in LA, and I’m proud to boast not one but three unique sets of people whose houses I know how to get to and park at). For those not tapped-in to the celeb gossip ring, David and Courtney were having issues in their …
There are catch-phrases of the dating and relationship world that we throw around without thought: You know, it’s just that I’m a giver and he’s a taker The reason she’s needy is because she’s immature Some people just need to fight to really communicate And, the most oft-used of the bunch: I’m just a/she’s such a/we’re all really guarded at first There are guarded men, …
I was against Twitter the first time I heard about it. It was two, maybe two and a half years ago, and David and I were having one of our 8:00am Grey Dog catch-up breakfasts in which he lectures me about how to get more traffic for the blog, I lecture him about how to properly date women, and neither of us really listens. Joining …
It’s come up more than a few times in my six plus weeks in L.A. – the question of whether there are more married 20-somethings in New York than there are in L.A. I always respond the I have the exact same number of very good friends who are already married in New York as I do in L.A. – zero – but I think …
I expected a New York City-style hail storm (ouch guys) of hate mail in response to my Duke Sex List opinion piece. Soap-boxing of that variety usually leads to some “who do you think you are” comments – which aren’t necessarily unwarranted. Not only were those fewer and further between this time, but I got an unexpected message from the father of a college-aged girl …
Around the fourth or fifth week after you move to Los Angeles people stop asking how you’re adjusting to the move, if you’re going crazy with all the traffic, or what you think of the weather and switch – in unison – to a very specific question: So, are you glad you made the move? Am I glad I decided to leave my job, family, …
I’m always torn when things like this pop up. “Things like this” being the sex diary of a former Duke student that went viral early this week. On the one hand I want to say, “who cares?” or “that’s interesting” or “wow guys really have terrible grammar when sexting” but then on the other I think, “this is an example of really immature behavior that’s …
A few days ago some gchat conversation jogged some thought in my mind that prompted a theory about the differences between guys and girls. This happens between twenty and five hundred times a day depending on how busy I am at work and whether or not Chris is on gchat. On this particular day he was, and we got into a conversation about what people …