Career
Things are fine
I'm still learning about all of this stuff, but seeing your kid sad because they don't know why they're different than other kids is tough.
Career
Career
Just start
In this dream, the photo mode was on portrait, which I didn't want. So I switched it to photo mode and tried to zoom to about 1.2x. But the camera kept zooming into 5x, then 10x. Too close!
Art
The Road
But for a few of us, On the Road mattered. Perhaps I was rebelling against myself, against a Protestant guilt, a strict family culture, a Sartrean existential need to define myself through the reflections of others – or just a desperate need to break out.
Twentysomething
Chew on this
I feel like this is it. Once we pass the late twenty-something stage – we're on the cusp here of settling, foundation-building, whatever — we're close to figuring it out... but once we pass this test, that's it. Easy sailing.
New York
U-Hauls, Bridesmaids & Backwards Mountain
I recently passed through my quarter-life crisis, where it was really hard to find anyone who really enjoyed what they do. People in this town are a cynical bunch. Make your money, then get out. That's why it's so awesome to have friends who really enjoy
Career
Exciting
Ok I'm excited but I don't know why. My cash is going to be dry pretty soon so I figure I'll have to get a temp job pretty soon. Which sucks, but I figured it's better this way than be stuck in
Twentysomething
(i)dent(i)t(i)es
I lost my passport the other day – left it in a spring garden where cupped tulips held yolky sun drops. It's a hassle to apply for a new one, but I'm sad that all my stamps are gone. They are in some ways the only signifiers
Career
Social Networks = Tattoos?
Actually, Web 2.0 is reducing the hypocrisy in society. Within a generation, the youths who today are comfortable with expressing themselves online will be in positions to scoff at the antiquated way of thinking where sharing candid images of your private life is taboo.
Career
(C)offer
Not to go all 'woe is me' but ever since I graduated, I feel like employers have just wanted to suck all my skills out before moving on. In other words, most places I've been at were too big to care or too small to have time to care.
Art
I Hope You're Happy
Thank god for the weekend. I'm going to get sloshed like crazy. Mom just called to ask me, "Do you know what today is?" And I said, "Uh... Friday?". And she says, "It's Good Friday."
Twentysomething
Old and New Bands I Love
I like nerdy bands for some reason, and in the case of JLC – who doesn't love an outfit that has a cellist, a harpischordist and a mellow guitarist?
Twentysomething
Netting stories
So he looked at me, starched collar and striped shirt, this new breed of yes-men, pilferers of pyramids and the ones who said the Taj Mahal couldn't be built (and then promptly got their hands cut off after they finished the dammed thing); I looked past, eyes stale,