Somehow The Mindy Project manages to perfectly embody the voice in my head in the character of Danny Castellano:

Okay, let's do the math of how these four kids are realistically gonna play out. So let's say you spend the next year or so dating this guy. You're 33 then. You spend a year getting to know him, 34, two years living with him, 35, 36. ( Read more... )

Books I have read lately:

Grounded: A Down to Earth Journey Around the World by Seth Stevenson - about circumnavigation sans air travel

Who is Your City?: How the Creative Economy is Making Where You Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life by Richard Florida - about location, location, location

Mastering the Art of Quitting: Why it Matters in ( Read more... )

I was told tonight, "You are more than you are allowing yourself to be."

So I've taken to browsing back through my ill-maintained blog, and I've arrived at entries from 2007. Looking at them, it's occurred to me that things have really not changed much in 7 years. 7 years! I still think and feel more or less the same things I did at 21, and I don't feel like I've evolved as much as I should have over my 20s. Or done ( Read more... )

Headline: If you've lived together for 3 years, he's not going to marry you.

I ended up getting to Runnymede much earlier than necessary so I stopped in at a coffee shop. There's a 3-, maybe 4-, year-old girl sitting near me who is pretending her chair seat is a computer and she's typing away, occasionally muttering, "Stop being such a bitch."

I've noticed that when I'm alone, the world seems very quiet. And I don't mean alone as in sitting-at-home-alone, I mean alone as in any instance that I am without company for some length of time. Obviously if I'm alone there's no conversation to fill in the background - just the one I have with myself in my head constantly - but that's not the ( Read more... )

Two people with whom I've reconnected in the past few days have commented that they always thought they'd read something of mine one day. It's kind of ... I suppose disconcerting to get this sort of feedback on the direction people thought your life would take. And, frankly, so did I.
I remember how in grade 12, my English teacher burst out laughing ( Read more... )

I think it would cathartic if I started journalling again. It would give me someone to talk to, even if I'm only really talking to myself in the end.

Verrückt, adj., adv.
(DE). närrisch, verdreht, verwirrt, wahnsinnig
(EN). clownish, twists, confuses, incredibly