My dear friend and former college roommate Caitlin raised an interesting point recently over at her blog, WAKING LIFE. She was talking about how refreshed and happy she’s been feeling lately and how she partially attributes that to the fact that she’s stopped trying to find fulfillment from her job. Though she works hard, she [...]
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The quarter-life question.
So this week I turn 25. A quarter century. And like many of those who have reached this point before me, I can’t help but reflect a little on who I am and where I’m at. You know, in life. It’s not that I mind getting older. The number really doesn’t bother me, never has. [...]
Ditching “smart”.
You know what’s wonderful about air travel? Other than the snug living quarters, the occasional delays, and subpar provisions even on transcontinental flights? Breathing the same lovely, recycled air as your planemates. Specifically, the guy three rows behind you hacking up a lung the entire flight. Specifically, feeling a tightness in your throat even before [...]
Busy brain, office ideas.
My apologies for that short blip in our regularly scheduled blog posts. I’ve been taking some time to think and adjust and rest. I’ve been working on, get this, not making myself feel guilty for taking time to watch Mad Men or read Anna Karenina (which I’ve been whittling away at for nearly six months [...]
The new normal.
It’s amazing how long it can take to get “back to normal” after you’ve experienced such sweeping change in your life. New house, new car, new job(s), new lifestyle, really. New title. New status on forms. New last name. (I still have yet to switch over to my new email address with my married name, [...]
Year gone by.
New Year’s Eve, it snowed. The entire weekend following, it snowed. Not so much snow that you couldn’t go out, but just enough to make you kind of not want to. Somehow I think it was nature’s way of saying, if you don’t take some time out to reflect on the year that’s just passed, [...]
The great leap.
I guess it started way back when. Way back when getting engaged caused me to take stock of my life. When it grabbed hold of my free time and began cutting off all the fat and then some, like an overzealous butcher. Suddenly, there was no time for anything except that which was productive. And [...]
John Krasinski, sleeping arrangements.
Why does it always seem like the one weekend I’m going out of town/unavailable is the weekend where EVERYTHING WONDERFUL IS HAPPENING?! Like the weekend we got married and went on our honeymoon? The So You Think You Can Dance tour came to Boston AND so did Regina Spektor too. This is my luck. And [...]
And, scene.
This is it. It is this. My life is flashing before my eyes so quickly I think I must be dying. Or living too much. We’re getting married. We’re buying a house. We’re getting MARRIED. We’re buying a HOUSE (well, technically a condo within a house). We’regettingmarried. We’rebuyingahouse. We’regettingmarriedWe’rebuyingahouse. We’regettingmarriedWe’rebuyingahouse. We’regettingmarriedWe’rebuyingahouse. Pause. … I have this [...]
