On friendship*: When the idea of best friends is discovered

January 31, 2008

When it comes to friendships, I’ve always had a problem. Like many things in life that I idealize, you can blame the books that I read as a child for forming my definition of friendship. My tweens were defined by the following series: Babysitters Club (punctuation correct according to the block letters on the original [...]

To (spam) hell and back

January 29, 2008

Yesterday I deleted 1632 spam comments on my blog and it felt great. This process started last week: I saw that the number of spam comments I had received was pretty high, so i decided to go through each page of 50 comments with a fine toothed e-comb and weed out the non-spam comments. Usually [...]

Update on the mundane but important

January 28, 2008

It’s about time for an update. First up: the hair straightener that was supposed to change my life. It hasn’t. You’re not surprised, are you? I received it (thanks to the lovely Banke), which was the only good thing about it. Back when I was researching straightening irons, the Sedu quickly climbed up the ranks [...]

Cleavage and cleaving together in holy matrimony

January 25, 2008

I had one of those days where I wished I had heeded that voice in my head that said “that tank top that you’re wearing under your sweater is a) too short and you’ll be constantly tugging it down and b) lower cut than you’d like so you’ll be tugging it up to ensure no [...]