I don't really update this anymore, since the rest of my life is spent entirely writing on the Internet and I just don't have it in me when I'm done working. But I don't really know how to end a year without doing this, and I type faster than I write, so ( Read more... )

In September, I will be living in my current apartment by myself, with no roommate, while I wait to move somewhere new. I will also have no Internet access because the neighbors with whom I share Internet will have moved. It's not worth getting Internet for myself, since I'll be moving in a month and that requires setting my apartment up for cable ( Read more... )

I hate cable news coverage as a rule, but damn if Tim Russert's passing doesn't break my heart. On Father's Day weekend, as the daughter of a man two years older than Russert, I can't help but be a little terrified too.

Come Election Night, I'm really gonna miss that whiteboard.

Today I biked ( Read more... )

Goddamn Wesleyan. Way to get a good commencement speaker, lose him to medical issues, and get the commencement speaker to trump all. I'm jealous, though I'm also glad my graduation didn't feature Secret Service.

Please let someone liveblog this. Please?

I don't see movies in movie theaters much, and when I do it's fun to get out there and see how people are actually reacting to the things I write about and obsess over every day. It's one thing to talk to a publicist who says "Yeah, people are really excited about Kung Fu Panda," and another to hear people actually cheer for the trailer ( Read more... )

Every now and then, I'll walk out of a movie screening feel light on my feet, exhilirated and excited. It's only happened like twice this year, which might be why my job is less fun now than it was back in November. It takes a lot for a movie to lift me up, remind me why I got into this to begin with, make me excited to write about what I've just ( Read more... )

Last night I went back to Wesleyan for the first time since graduation last May. I wasn't particularly looking forward to dragging my ass back up there, but literally every member of The American Story Project who has not graduated college yet was involved in Big Love, the faculty theater show, so it was essentially a requirement that I go. Jess ( Read more... )

As some of you may know, Michael is one of those kids who is really into music, and knows all the cool bands before the rest of us do. So, of course, he has the MGMT album, and has told me it's really good and apparently that they're a big deal, whatever that means ( Read more... )

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