Hey Citrus, Hey Liquor.

Photo by sidewalks flying.
For three years, I worked in a chain restaurant straight out of Waiting. You know, the kind that only ever appear in mall parking lots.  The kind with random collections of tacky 1970s memorabilia adorning the walls, with automatically flushing toilets in the bathrooms, with a drink menu full of sticky-sweet cocktails [...]

The Domino Effect

(Photo by tracyhunter.)
None of my close friends are married yet. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how grateful I am for that. My parents didn’t get married until they were almost 30 and neither, I think, did most of my friends’ parents. I don’t come from the kind of town where people get married [...]

Things I Used to Do

Remember when people used to use myspace?
I read through too many http://whitelotuswhiterussian.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=121of my old myspace blogs last night. The two or three years when myspace was big corresponded roughly with the two or three years of my life where:
1) I was the drunkest,
2) I had a borderline obscene amount of personal drama, and
3) I was [...]

How to Be Friends with Your Ex-Boyfriend (Whether It’s a Good Idea or Not)

Of the guys I’ve dated in the last ten years, I am friends with all of them . . . save one. To be entirely fair to him, he has some very good reasons not to want to be friends with me, like the fact that I more or less tried to put him into [...]

Solitaire

Before I met my boyfriend, I wanted to move to Chicago so I could be alone.
Not alone alone, of course — too many of my old college friends now make their home in Chicago, all of us drawn there as if by some monstrous magnetic pull that spans six states. If I really wanted to [...]