Archive for 'Things I'm Not Okay With' Category
all the time in the world
7 July 2010Kids, I’ve got some free time on my hands. I won’t go into the details for a variety of reasons largely related to the legal document I signed granting me all this free time and my hunch that it’s somehow contingent on me not getting all Internet Jerry Maguire about it, and also my struggle to find [...]
The Year of the Tiger
22 February 2010I have no clue whatsoever how to play golf, despite those many semesters of high school gym where I devoted as much of my energy as possible to playing it without getting sweaty because no one showered after gym in my high school, and then joining a sorority where I would forge a very close friendship with a [...]
Best of the outbox
21 July 2009To: Cristin’s Boss
From: Cristin
Subject: Thursday AM (this will be the best email you get all week)
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So, I have bedbugs. It’s the most effing disgusting thing in the world. I am insanely meticulous about cleaning my apartment and extremely picky about who gets to sleep in my bed, but apparently that was all for naught because [...]
Just in time for Easter- everyone’s coming back from the dead
9 April 2009They made fun of me when I became obsessed with zombies, didn’t they. “What happened to pirates?” they asked. “How many weird obsessions can one seemingly otherwise-normal urban 20something have?” They laughed when I bought both versions of Dawn of the Dead on DVD and watched them back to back, and they rolled their eyes [...]
This is almost exactly like how I got an A in statistics last semester
9 February 2009The Airing of Grievances was reviewed in Entertainment Weekly’s 2/13 issue: Not since the Replacements raised a pint glass in the name of punk has a gang of hood rats so rousingly resurrected the legend of the American bar band. Grade: A. I’ve been making jokes all day about the continuing Stickles tradition of academic excellence [...]
Google Stalker
4 February 2009Google recently chucked their Dodgeball feature and then came up with Latitude, which allows people to track your cell phone via Google maps. It’s times like these when I’m relieved my parents aren’t more technologically advanced (when my dad got his first DVD player, halfway through watching an episode of the Sopranos on it he [...]
First step to getting help is admitting you have a problem
28 January 2009Oh, thank god: There’s a support group for girls who are dating guys in finance.
From The NY Times article: In addition to meeting once or twice weekly for brunch or drinks at a bar or restaurant, the group has a blog, billed as “free from the scrutiny of feminists,” that invites women to join “if [...]
It’s like the superbowl for those of us who reread Phantom Tollbooth every year
27 January 2009Yesterday was the ALA awards (for those of you who read above a 6th grade level– (a) I feel bad for you, son and (b) those are the awards that decide which children’s books get those gold and silver stickers that will make librarians and teachers love them for decades. It’s their fault that you [...]
Wake Up Call
20 January 2009It’s very hard for me to get myself out of bed in the morning. For most of my life I thought I was just Lazy (also- who actually enjoys getting out of bed in the morning? Even if it’s your birthday, or a day when someone’s going to give you a pony, you still want [...]
Things I’m Not Okay With: Inaugural Edition
12 January 2009The Obama Ked.
Okay… really? REALLY?
via I Heart Daily