Archive for the ‘Happening’ Category

Go Vote. Because “Your Excuse Sucks”

I’m at work on what should be a national holiday, because I can barely concentrate on work anyway. I’m an NPR junkie and I love to learn, and I especially like to hear lots of opinions and reasons and viewpoints on issues that matter on this planet. (And yes, I mean this planet, because what [...]

Dispatch from the Edge of a Recession: Hit Me When I’m Up

After eleven weeks out of the workforce, I started a job this week and got slammed with a $100-boot on my car (for the first time in my life) all at once. Way to get hit when you’re (almost) up. On the way up, we’ll say. The most painful part of this incident: I was [...]

25: goals

I’m not one to base goals or timeframes around the time between my birthdays from one year to the next. But right now there are a few things on my mind that I want to accomplish in the next year or so, and my birthday was just two days ago, so it seems like a [...]

Food for thought: working at McDonald’s

Another gem from Girls. Hannah has basically been fired from her unpaid internship because the won’t pay her and her parents have stopped supporting her. So she is discussing her situation with some friends. Hannah: So I calculated, and I can last in New York for three and a half more days. Maybe seven if I don’t [...]

“Well, when you get hungry enough, you’re gonna figure it out”

The pilot episode of Girls speaks volumes about the lives of twenty-somethings who just haven’t quite got everything in order just yet, and please give us some time, thank you very much. Case in point, the scene in the office of Hannah’s (Lena Dunham’s) unpaid internship at a publishing company, where she must ask for payment [...]

Reality check: This week, in America

This week I was assigned a reference request for a naturalization that took place in Miami in the 1980s. This is a pretty standard, run-of-the-mill request, where a person writes or calls the National Archives at Atlanta to request the Petition for Naturalization of a person, for whatever reason they need it. I’ve had people [...]

TV Show: on urban white girls in 2012

Last night I finally began watching a show I’d been reading about, and to be quite honest, sounded just like something made for me, whose characters I might love. Girls, on HBO, which premiered in April. I love the characters. They are confused, they have both aim and absolutely no aim, they are figuring out [...]

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