Travelblog: Philly is fantastic

Sunny. Pretty.City. God, I love being back on the East Coast. I’m currently sitting in a coffee shop call Double Shots, eating veggie soup and avoiding the Society Hill Sheraton. Riveting entertainment, I know. Anywho. Gotta got set up my poster now. More soon.

I take it back

A few weeks ago, I received yet another extraordinarily sweet care package from one of my friends back home. It was filled to the brim with such contradictory things as Krispy Kreme coupons, colored pencils and coloring book, oldies music (rock on, Bob), the Vagina Monologues screenplay, and a Cosmopolitan magazine. One half of me [...]

Games I play to amuse myself

On a completely unrelated note, I played my favorite Internet game just now, which is to type the most random question I can think of into Google and see what the Internets return.   Amongst the results from the question “When did men stop shaving?” here are a few of my favorite, arranged [...]

I have a question for the men

When did you all stop shaving? It seems like it used to be just a few lazy hipsters and your basic rugged outdoorsy type. Now I swear, half of Tucson’s youngish guys have taken to face fuzz. Not that I’m complaining, mind you. It’s just curious.
On a related note, why is it that hard-core [...]

But with beaches too

Awww, look at my hometown, making it all big-like in the New York Times. But I’m not at all sure I like her being called “easy,” even if the reporter is attempting to draw a comparison to the laissez-faire attitude of our slutty Gulf Coast sister. Achem, Mr. Motyka, we are good girls from good [...]

I feel like making Tucson a mixed tape

Oh, the wonders of having a week off. In case I hadn’t mentioned it, the week before last was Spring Break out here in Tucson. Despite the fact that my friends all left me and went off to exotic places like Los Angeles and San Francisco, I stayed in Tucson and had a downright decent [...]

Focused on my breathing

You  know what’s even harder than being a grad student? I’d say it’s being a focused and professional yoga student. In particular when one has a raging crush on one’s yoga instructor. And when, hypothetically, that student is in downward dog and her instructor gently pushes on her lower back to aid the stretch and then says, “Now [...]

You know what I miss?

Being off. You know, metaphorically punching the clock after a long days worth of doing whatever it is you do in corporate — or in my case, non-profit – America. Then driving home from work, dropping your purse on the kitchen counter, and going about your evening without thinking for even a moment about the stack of work you [...]

Has anyone ever sublet before?

Sorry, subscribed readers, to bring you here for an actual request and not some pointless anecdote. But I have needs, you see, GREAT NEEDS. Ahem, the question is…have any of you ever sublet an apartment? I have decided to vacate the great city of Tucson for the summer lest I melt from the heat. I [...]

The Coney Island Original

Once upon a time, I wrote product reviews for a great little site called HeatEatReview.com. It wasn’t that much work, and I generally had a lot of fun playing with my food and talking about it. Alas, I am a slacker and haven’t written a post in months. To be fair, I am actually cooking a lot [...]