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Put a Ring on It
I’ve always been rather suspect of marriage proposals made on Valentine’s Day. I consider them too predictable for my high-drama tastes, too commonplace. Plus they allow the man squeak by with very...
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Okay Gentlemn-with-whom-I-share-a-bathroom
Okay gentlemen, I have to ask: how does one get chin stubble on the bottom of the soap dish? I don’t normally spend a lot of time studying the undersides of my tub’s odds and ends but the other day I...
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Of Grandparents and Suitcases
The good thing about being an adjunct is that trekking across campus gives you the perfect excuse to purchase a trendy new laptop case (red leather, complete with wheels, a handle and multiple...
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Sometimes it’s Okay to Be Needy
Warning: I’m about to get kinda sappy. And philosophical. And I’m not even drinking. Earlier this year, my partner-in-crime took leave of our tap company, The Lady Hoofers, in order to pursue other...
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Folding Boyfriend for Hire?
Here’s a little something I bet you didn’t know about me. I hate folding laundry. Like really hate it. I find that moving it around works just as well. I usually maintain a nice...
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Sushi in a Box
One of the interesting things about teaching anthropology is that you end up wearing your anthropologist’s hat ALL of the time. As such, as simple purchase for your boyfriend’s birthday becomes much...
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The Time I Tried to Shop at Burlington Coat Factory
Hi there. Remember me? I used to blog here? The thing about blogs is that they’re easy start. They’re less easy to maintain (especially when you can no longer blog about what you used to blog...
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Of Musical Chairs and Capitalism
I like teaching anthropology, I really do. But after a while it starts to mess with your head. Take yesterday for example. I was sitting on the lawn in front of TWD’s house in the beach chair he got...
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Writer’s Block
I’m having a serious case of writer’s block right now, which is unfortunate because I’m supposed to be writing a review of a performance I saw last night and even though I enjoyed it, I’ve been staring...
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Sick of Being Single? Create a Match.com Summer Singles Event and Win!
Online dating is a misnomer. At least that’s what I told everyone at my Online Dating 101 workshops earlier this year: get offline and get into the real world as soon as possible! Of course, some...
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Just the Seven of Us…
Did I mention that TWD and I are going on another cruise? Well, we are. Only this time it’s going to be a bit different from last year’s trip to Bermuda. Firstly, I’m not worried about us breaking up...
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Trouble, Part 2
So TWD and I picked ourselves a song a while back. I’ve written about it before. It’s a bachata version of Stand by Me by Latin artist Prince Royce. We tried to request it on the cruise during Latin...
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Slightly Less Trouble, Part 3
“I don’t believe in signs,” I found myself saying to TWD several house later as I sat in my car in the parking lot at Bryn Mawr. “Yeah right,” he teased. “Okay fine, I do. But still… what are the odds...
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What’s Up with Sister Wives?
On the first of August, after deciding that I did not, in fact, want to break up with The Wedding Date, I threw my suitcases into the car, grabbed my laptop and headed up to Portland, Maine. The...
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Warrior Princess
So in addition to wasting reality television, I did do some useful things in Portland. I went to yoga, I went to the library, I went to the art museum and I went to a book reading at Longfellow Books....
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Reverse Trick-or-Treating
I was really cool in college. So were my roommates. We were so cool in fact that upon finding ourselves with nothing to do on Halloween (i.e. no parties to go to, no boyfriends to go out with, no...
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This Year, I’ll…
I was inspired, for the first time in about six months, to write a really great blog post yesterday, but then I had to go help my brother finish editing the video footage from the concert I directed...
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My Post New Years Confession
I have a terrible confession to make. Yesterday, despite having spent hours on a beautiful new “2014 Time Management” spreadsheet, I spent the day in pajamas. The entire day. As in I woke up, rolled...
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My 2014 Hit List
I like sleeping. A lot. Hence the reason I want to murder people who wake me up earlier than I intend to wake up. For the past few months, TWD has been at the top of my hit list. He gets up early—so...
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Mountain Lions in the Basement?
This happens every time. I think to myself, “Yes! I have a few days off! I’ll go away somewhere for some peace and quiet.” And then I actually get “away somewhere” with my laptop, my flash drive and...
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