My friend and teammate says to me, "do you make a habit of spending your birthdays on planes... after breakups? It's only the second time. It's really how the dates worked out. With the timezone change, it means my birthday is going to last for 40 hours... I can celebrate on two continents! In two hemispheres. It is ...
I love Penelope Trunk's blog. She's not afraid to write about her life. And sometimes that's positive, but the most interesting and hilarious and insightful posts are always about a negative - some way in which she screwed up, something she found difficult, relationships - that ended. The tagline is "advice at the intersection of work ...
My uncle died last week. We knew it was coming, and this is the family thing I've been referring to of late. It was, as it always seems to be in these situations when someone leaves this world, their family, too soon, cancer. My family is not a close one, and I did not know this ...
I've never had much patience for those girls that reinvent themselves in their boyfriend's image every relationship. You know, when they're dating a beer-loving football fan they develop a taste for stella and when they're dating a cricket lover and wine aficionado it's all about a nice Beaujolais. Of course if you're friends with someone like ...
Back in March, I had a really terrible week. My paper got rejected and I realized I wasn't going to be able to finish this semester, and the following day, my boyfriend and I broke up. It's not uncommon for a paper to be rejected, however, frustratingly, the comments I got were mostly aspects of it ...
Last week, I deactivated my Facebook account. Why? There were a number of reasons, and I'd just found myself using it less and less. Since they rolled out the redesign the news feed seemed out of date (it might take days for something to show up), but the live feed was full of repetitive drivel ...
I'm scheduling this post for Valentines day, when I'm sure the blogosphere (and everywhere else) will be full of romance. I'm not a big fan of Valentines day, myself. Last year I was in Japan with the Passive Aggressive, wondering if her inability to even go to the corner shop by herself would cause me to ...
I meet a lot of people who are, or have a hankering to be, entrepreneurs. I don't, at all. Is that weird? I do, though, have a hankering to make stuff. And something that I've come back to multiple times is dating facilitation. I love matchmaking. I'm terrible at it, but I can't seem to stop ...
Yesterday Sacha Chua put up a blogpost entitled "What can I help you learn? Looking for mentees". I'd been following her blog for a while now, and got out of the lurking stage and started commenting periodically, so of course I was like, "me me me!". If you don't read Sacha's blog, go and grab the ...
I had an argument with a friend yesterday. He'd been a little economical with the truth and I found out and was angry. I found out via Facebook - of course. Facebook knows everything. This propelled me to write this post I've been thinking about for a while. The thrust of the talk that I ...
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