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I DESPERATELY FREAKING WANT A DOG!!!! A BIG DOG! this, of course, after i sign the lease on the most beautiful apartment-of-my-dreams, which does not allow pets. maybe i can buy it (in my dreams). who wants to start a collection? maybe after i graduate i'll move to a house, get a dog, and quit going on so many damn vacations.

i'm in scotland, which is great ( Read more... )

The first awkward moment comes when she pulls out my chair, unexpectedly, and it is almost a power struggle. The obvious negotiation between us, and the conscious suppression of my ambivalence. Isn't this what I wanted? She is a gentleman to a fault, has not missed a step: she brought me the perfect flowers, complimented my outfit, and as I stepped ( Read more... )

Hey everyone, I am helping St. Vincent de Paul organize National Night Out, their annual Community Block Party. This year, the theme of the event is recognition of the contributions of women of color to the downtown Oakland community, and we are currently taking nominations. If anyone has a nomination, please message me. Thank you!

I'm just some girl, I tell you, trying to sound convincing. I hear the disappointment in your voice, the pain as you reject what I'm saying. You toss it back gently instead of slamming it back, an easy throw that I can catch. I try to explain, to show you what I see: if space and time are a beach, then our lifetimes are overrepresented by a single ( Read more... )

So I'm really disturbed by this one guy at the gym. I'm afraid that he's going to die while working out. He's always there, he goes to at least one cardio class, then does weights, spends at least half an hour on the medicine ball, and then he takes up the back extension thing for at least twenty minutes. The back extension machine obsession has ( Read more... )

You are normally a friendly, romantic, and rather ardent person, and today you should be feeling especially sexy and passionate. Don't be surprised if you receive a lot of admiring glances from people on the street! This is a great day to buy new clothes or skincare products, dear Leo, for you know more instinctively than usual what makes you look ( Read more... )

just so everyone knows, I'm going home tomorrow and coming back thursday... see you guys at Hannah's on Friday.

I am a bookworm, you know? You can't take me to bookstores because I take forever in them. The only thing I know for sure I want to do is open a bookstore, at least I think I know (but I could be wrong). Why fuck around wondering if I should be a nutritionist or get an MBA or run a hotel or swallow knives when I have a doable dream? Do I actually ( Read more... )