When I go to see my therapist, I have to take this little survey that asks me questions about how I’ve been feeling lately. Have I been depressed, lonely, feeling isolated, have the acute sense that anything I do that could be read as a demonstration of a slight flaw is emblematic of everything wrong …
Yelling at a Vending Machine
If I had been given a sort of character creation menu before I was born, some kind of set of options and variables from which I could pick how I’d grow up to look, I’d be in a pretty different situation than the one I’m in now. For one, I would have either made …
I’m Bored and Might Have to Build a Person
Like what I hope to one day do with my student loans, I’ve consolidated all my social needs into a select few outlets. I have, on average, anywhere between 1 and 2 friends. Me and my partner are similar and spend enough time together that we’ve basically become one person, so they don’t necessarily qualify …
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Blogger Recognition Award: 6 months late
I’m like some sort of lazy, relatively incompetent bird. Anyone who has been following my blog for a while may have noticed that I have, on occasion, taken some brief breaks to gather my strength for graduate school. One of those breaks happened to be for around 6 months with little, sporadic posts here and …
Short Post Because I’m Hungover
Hangovers are the overly attached new friends of drinking: you wake up, and someone you met the night before has already texted you, added you on Facebook, and is making dinner plans. They take over your life for one or two days, and then hopefully they’re gone forever. I have a new friend. I want …
