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How will I fit in five yoga classes a week with my new job? Will I really get up for a 6 a.m. yoga class? Am I ready to try hot yoga? Am I holding myself back if 3/5 of my classes are with the same teacher? Are all of Zooey Deschanel’s clothes from ModCloth? [...]
Yesterday I went to several stores looking for a hairbrush caddy. Or something I could use as a hairbrush caddy. Some kind of hanging wall storage for my brushes, to keep me from leaving them in the sink and getting hair everywhere. Such a thing apparently doesn’t exist, at least not in the form I [...]
IT HAPPENED TO ME: I can’t stop reading XOJane even though it’s nothing but millennial navel-gazing
By Jen | March 5, 2013
I loved Jane magazine in my early twenties. It wasn’t as obsessed with the man-pleasing aspects of young womanhood as Cosmo, and it wasn’t as fashion-crazed as other magazines geared toward my demographic. It was balanced. So of course it ceased publication in 2006 because I can’t have nice things. XOJane is… well… not Jane. [...]
I recently got my first good review on Yelp. They loved the cheese plate. By the way I gloated you’d think I milked the goats and cows myself, but no. I totes sliced that cheese and artfully arranged it on a plate, though. I have watched customers consult the Yelp app on their phones as [...]
I’ve forgotten how normal people sleep. By Saturday, my last shift of the week, I’m delirious with exhaustion. More than once I’ve fallen asleep at work while waiting to do my checkout. In fact, last night I slept on a broken couch in the office long enough to start drooling. So I sleep all day [...]
