Overeducated. 

Underemployed. 

Savings?

I have enough for three weeks.

IRA?

Try Sallie Mae. 

Waking up sweaty, panicky, anxious. 

Canceling Netflix. 

Pulling out light bulbs. 

So why am I shopping at Whole Foods?

It's just so nice.  Read full post »

I have a confession to make.  I've been off TV for exactly one month as of today.  This doesn't mean that I can't watch television at other people's houses or at work - but for the most part, I haven't had much opportunity to do that.  And the televisions at my… Read full post »

I have a recurring dream.  I've had it for years.  It goes like this:

I live in a house.  It's a big, beautiful old house with dozens of rooms. It's a lovely house, the one I've always dreamed of - but it's almost completely empty.  And most of the rooms, I… Read full post »

Hey, all.  I've created a new place to store my movie reviews so that it's easier to find them and look through the archives for anyone looking for something to see.  … Read full post »

I have just come to realize that this blogging business is really just cheap therapy in disguise.  I mean, who has $175 an hour to shell out for someone to listen to them talk?  This is simpler, more direct, and less painful.  Plus I get some really great feedback.

I just… Read full post »

I've gotten one love letter in my life.  One.  It was from a boyfriend I had out in L.A. after I had left and moved to Atlanta.  Our relationship was doomed from the start.  I met him just three months before I was supposed to leave. And because of this, there… Read full post »

Two days.  Without television.  I honestly didn't know if I could do it.  I thought I would be digging the digital receiver back out of the closet and hooking it up again just to catch a few more episodes of... something.  But I haven't.  And surprise of surprises - I haven't… Read full post »

This post is a follow-up to my earlier post, "TiVo is My Crack Pipe."  I had pledged to those who read my blog that I would be getting rid of all television reception in my house - for good.  This doesn't extend to my Netflix subscription, but means that I won't… Read full post »

I need a new iPad, right?  Yes, I'm sure I do.  And I need the $829 64GB Wi-Fi + 3G version so that I can use it absolutely anywhere and store my next novel on it.  Like a really lightweight, constantly connected computer. 

But it's not really a computer.  It doesn't… Read full post »

It's coming.  Sunday night.  The end of my six-year affair with Jack Shephard, Kate Austen, James Sawyer, Hugo Reyes and John Locke.  I can't say it's been all romance - there have been fights, betrayals... even murders.  But now that it's winding down to the conclusion, I realize… Read full post »

I have always been addicted to television.  It started with Captain Kangaroo and Sesame Street.  I was truly invested in the lives of those puppets and their human friends, and I was determined to find out exactly HOW to get to Sesame Street and join them.  In high school I rushed… Read full post »

Last night I was lying in bed, mostly asleep but not entirely because I knew that I had to be up early.  I was doing the requisite self-torture of rolling over and squinting at the clock every 20 minutes or so, when I suddenly heard one of my windows CRASH into… Read full post »

When I was in high school (a la 1987), our hometown movie theater charged $4.50 to see a movie.  A first-run movie.  On opening weekend.  Even if 3-D glasses were involved (and sometimes, they were - those aren't a new invention, kids.)  $4.50 was all it took to sit down in… Read full post »

In listening to the joint press conference today between Britain's new Prime Minister from the Conservative Party, David Cameron and the Deputy Prime Minister from the Liberal Party, Nick Clegg, I was struck by one crazy idea.  What if Barack Obama had chosen John McCain as his Vice President? &… Read full post »

Today is the day.  No, I mean it.  Today really is the day: 

I will no longer eat at fast food restaurants.

I will work out an hour every day.  

I will call my family every weekend.  

I will to go to concerts and plays. 

I will take… Read full post »

Do you know what I like doing more than almost anything else in the world?  Laundry.

 First, you take a pile of spilled-on, wrinkled, sweated-in, dirty clothes, sheets, towels and underwear and throw them into a giant metal bin that will spin them around with steaming water and sweet-smell… Read full post »

I've been thinking lately about why I've never gotten married.  Until about two months ago, I had all the time in the world.  Until about two months ago, I could be ridiculously picky.  The personal ad in my head read something like this:

 Seeking: Single (never married), tall, go… Read full post »

It's hours before the official commencement of Mother's Day, and it makes me think about my own relationship with my mom.  Every year, I send her the obligatory basket of wine, cheese and chocolates with a 50-character message - and every year, I call her days later to ask if she's… Read full post »