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March 2010

March 29, 2010

20

Trying To Be More Accountable. Or Something Else Totally Related.

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See, the thing about being honest is that it’s messy. And, I’m not talking about being honest with the people around you, although that’s part of it, too. More so, I’m talking about those moments when you’re really honest with yourself. Those moments where you’re all, “God, my ego feels really uneasy about this and MY EGO LIKES TO FEEL GOOD ALL THE TIME SO WHAT WILL I DO?” The moments where the truth about yourself, for lack of a ...

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March 26, 2010

42

The Fire, The Ambition, And The Wanting To Give It All Up

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Don’t watch this. Okay, watch it. But, seriously, don’t blame me if the trailer of this movie makes you want to jump off a cliff while simultaneously feeling so uplifted and happy that it confuses all your emotions and then you sit there thinking, “I kind of want to die, but I also want to live so I can have THIS EXACT LIFE THAT GODDAMN ELIZABETH GILBERT HAS MINUS THE HEARTBREAK BUT YES PLEASE JAVIER BARDEM AND YES PLEASE JAMES ...

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March 22, 2010

23

Things That Are Not A “Small World”

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Did someone send out a memo to the general public that told various people in and around my life to misuse the phrase, “what a small world”? Because, I’m noticing a conspiracy around this and being the grammar/spelling/writtenword nazi that I am, I’ve decided it’s time to set the record straight once and for all. Below are some examples of things that ARE NOT A SMALL WORLD. AT ALL. SO, LIKE, STOP SAYING IT’S A SMALL WORLD WHEN, IN REALITY, ...

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March 15, 2010

50

I Want To Rip My Skin Off; This Blog Post is Way Too Personal

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There are just some days. Some days where the weight of the world seems to rest solely upon my shoulders and the only way to relieve it is to talk myself in a circle until there’s an opening. An escape hatch. A moment of clarity.

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March 8, 2010

13

In Which We Meet My Alter-Ego, Vanessa Simone

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In a desperate attempt to not feel like a complete loser by drinking alone at a bar in Rome, I decided to employ a fantastically awesome story about how I was Vanessa Simone, an American author writing a book about love, sex and dating around the world and yes, sweetie, it is so nice to meet you, too. And, yes, I did come up with that book idea to, ahem, hopefully grab someone to conduct my experiments with for, you know, research. RESEARCH.

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