For the Love of Gravy, Stop Playing Christmas Music Before Thanksgiving
To the people who play Christmas music before Thanksgiving, First of all, how dare you? The rest of us have the maturity and discipline to...
Confessions of a Barista
As Thanksgiving (and more importantly, the holiday season) swiftly approaches and the days grow shorter and colder, every Starbucks in the nation is beginning to...
Thanksgiving, As Told Through “How I Met Your Mother” Gifs
Ah, going home for Thanksgiving – the holy week of laundry machines that don’t need quarters, a fridge full of food you haven’t bought with...
AIWU (Acronyms I Would Use)
Did you know “acronym” is actually an acronym for “Abbreviated Coded Rendition Of Name Yielding Meaning?” Yeah. Meta. With this post, I originally set out...
Things I Want This Thanksgiving
Each year at Thanksgiving, my family goes around the table and everyone offers a short list of things they are thankful for. It sounds...
The Haunting Dread of Food Truck Smell
It’s just after sunset, and you’re en route to an evening class. Everyone around you scuttles to their warm homes in dusk’s amber glow in...
I Went To Paris And All I Got Was A Bunch of Second-Hand Crack
It seems safe to assume that most people on this campus (both men and women) have at one point fantasized about going to Paris. Literature,...
Reincarnation aka Can I Be Reborn as Beyoncé?
Upon learning about reincarnation during a world religions class in high school, I imagined what hideous crimes I must have committed in my past life to...
Apology Letter to My Future Children
To my future offspring, Hello. It’s your mother. Right now, I’m a young, vibrant, spunky nineteen-year-old – or at least that’s what I write whenever...
The Curse of Self-Diagnosis
So I have this problem. And you probably have it too. It’s called casual self-diagnosis… Anxiety? Constantly needing to feel in control? Hypochondria? Perpetual sweating?...