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About Me

Sometimes I'd pass couples eating brunch at the outdoor cafes or inside restaurants with doors that opened onto the sidewalk, and when I looked at them (I tried not to stare, but rarely did any of them look back anyway) I felt a confusion bordering on hostility. Flirting with a guy in a dark bar, at night, when you'd both been drinking: I understood the appeal. But to sit across the table from each other in the daylight, to watch each other's jaws working over pancakes and scrambled eggs, seemed embarrassing and impossible. The compromises you'd made would be so apparent, I thought, this other person before you with their patches of dry skin and protruding nose hairs and the drop of syrup on their chin and the way they spit when they talked and the boring cheerful complaints you'd make to each other about traffic or current events while the horrible sun hung over you. I could see how during the night people preferred the reassurance of another body in their bed, but in the day wouldn't you just rather be alone, both of you, so you could go back to your apartment and sit on the toilet for awhile, or take a nap without someone's sweaty arm around you? Or maybe you'd just want to sit on your couch and balance your checkbook and not hear another person breathing while they read the newspaper five feet away and look over every ten or fifteen minutes so the you had to smile back-about nothing!-and periodically utter a term of endearment. ~Curtis Sittenfeld

My Blog

A look back and a look forward

This is the first year I'm not going to have a resolution to lose weight. I'm sick of working out and dieting and seeing no results. Or when I do get small results, I end up permanently injuring mysel...
Posted by on Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:45:00 GMT

A Roundhouse Kick to the Face

Since moving to Iowa 4 months ago, I've been having a difficult time fitting the gym into my daily schedule. It didn't really help that my gym got flooded and still isn't open. I tried out the gym in ...
Posted by on Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:35:00 GMT

Overflow

I have about 8 blog topics going through my head right now, but based on the circumstances, this seems to be the best one. A few days after my birthday Cedar Rapids experienced MASSIVE flooding. I've ...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Jun 2008 05:34:00 GMT

A noun, a verb and 911

If you get my subject line-then I congratulate you on staying educated on our current presidential debates-now onto my blog...   I consider Meijer the blackhole on Earth. Every time I enter the ...
Posted by on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:53:00 GMT

Cobain

I just watched a short Trailer for a new documentary coming out about Kurt Cobain. Afterwards I checked out some comments listed by regular people about what was being shown. There were many peop...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 08:20:00 GMT

One more for the road...

Thank god this summer is OVER! I'd prefer to block this summer completely from my memory if possible. Not everything was terrible-I did graduate and purchased a new car. I finally saw Lucinda in conce...
Posted by on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:34:00 GMT

BGH, Gluten, and Bowling...

Over the past few weeks I have seen a lot of articles discussing organic milk and the bovine growth hormone. Such articles have been discussing how new research shows BGH does not affect the human bod...
Posted by on Mon, 18 Sep 2006 19:56:00 GMT

Controling Society by Fear of the Masses

I know I haven't posted anything on here in quite awhile. Stress between school, work, and friends has limited my time for writing and such. But while I have been checking sites and reading other peop...
Posted by on Sun, 20 Aug 2006 13:38:00 GMT

You're the Strange Ones...I'm normal

The first player of this game starts with the "6 weird or embarrassing things/habits about yourself" and people who get tagged need to write a blog of their 6 weird habits/things, as well as state thi...
Posted by on Mon, 26 Jun 2006 20:08:00 GMT

Anticipating a Change...

I've been really stressed lately. I don't know why since I just gave up the sorority house, and now my life is back to being calm, but my body is showing all the symptoms of being highly stressed. My ...
Posted by on Tue, 20 Jun 2006 17:10:00 GMT