Adjustments

(Photo by pfly.)
I still haven’t adapted to being a West coast insomniac. Being an insomniac in Central Standard Time is easy.  Even when your Midwestern compatriots sign offline and go to bed, you still have those in Colorado and California to keep you up. It’ll be five A.M. before your buddy list is entirely empty [...]

Stuff

I have this dream where one day–after I get rich–I go buy a ranch out in Montana and ride horses all day. Never mind how I make this money. Never mind that I’ve never actually ridden a horse. Never mind that, given my family history, I’m probably miserably allergic to them. None of that matters. [...]

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 [...]

Places I Was Supposed to Move to After Graduation (But Didn’t)

1) Boston: Like all college girls across America, my college roommates and I plucked each others’ eyebrows, and straightened each other’s hair, had Lindsay Lohan movie marathons, and stayed up until four in the morning drinking wine from a box and copying dance moves off of MTV. (Next time you see me, ask me [...]