Go Shorty,
it's your birthday!
Gonna party,
like it's your birthday!

--card written by my mom

I've always done resolutions based on my year of age rather than the year of calendar, as my birthday and New Year's are so close together and usually a week after New Year's I'm thinking, "Maybe I should have made some resolutions or something ( Read more... )

I did my first paid copy blocks for Anthropologie on Friday. It was pretty fun, and they didn't have too many edits, and they're paying me, and I named items obliquely after both Farah and Ghostface Killah. All my freelance work up until now has been done by contract-ish, or at least I don't have to send an invoice. But now I get to make myself an ( Read more... )

Wandering around Center City the past few days, I keep running into a guy selling bootleg t-shirts. The t-shirt has a disgruntled Calvin on it, and a slogan which the guy yells for hours in this particular way:

The EA-gles
are PLAY-ing
like SHIT!
PASS me a-NOTH-er BEER.

Life's going pretty well. I got another job that should keep me in rent and ( Read more... )

A man in a black SUV just drove up 16th St leaning on his horn for no reason that I could figure out. I just got out of the shower, so when I heard him coming, I went to the window wearing a towel to see what was up. I didn't expect him to be able to see me, because even though my window is on the first floor looking out onto the street, the air ( Read more... )

Hey, Post WWII-era American GIs!
What’s your favorite kind of hip-hop?


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Rajiv's landlady hates me, I think ( Read more... )

I've been a bit under the weather. I got my wisdom teeth out last Thursday, then developed a complication involving a nerve in my jaw called "dry socket" which, unpleasant as it already sounds, should really be called "small but persistent bees stinging the entire left side of your face from the inside 24 hours a day." It's a mouthful, but "dry ( Read more... )

As you may or may have not heard, I got fired from the Apple store on Friday. It went like this ( Read more... )

So what with the new housemates and new lease and not being one paycheck away from financial ruin for once in my life, I've been on a manic home-renovation kick for the last month. RESULTS:


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It's been a while.

In any event, I've recently passed the year-since-I-moved-to-Philadelphia mark, and it feels very cyclical. The weather's the same, the smell is the same as when I first moved here.

I'm at the same jobs, I live in the same apartment.


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