The way I think about it is: if you’re into movies, for example, you should work at a movie theater. Then you can just go and see every movie that comes out before the rest of your friends, which is awesome.
Sometimes I ride around the block without my seatbelt on just to feel something. Today, I rode all the way to work without my seatbelt on. This is the farthest I’ve ever gone so criminally naked, and let me tell you something, internet: it was exhilarating.
7. ‘Privilege’ Is A Made Up Thing
“Margaret Thatcher died,” he said. “Have you heard about the song? Ding Dong, the Witch is Dead?”
Here is the great lie about crushes, internet: we pretend that they are precursors to relationships, when in fact they are a major sign that the two persons involved will never be in one together.
I designed my own major in school despite being told that I had to make a choice between a) graduating with a ‘real degree’ and b) being unemployable.
My team was backpacking through a rainforest in New Zealand, and the weather was what might best be termed as “biblical.”
I looked at the guy on the couch in the room. Next to me. The no-longer-strictly stranger. He had a life. He was not just a guest star in mine.
Everything was different. Your carefully manicured life is interrupted by a storm.
But, of course, she was my mom and a woman and the thought of being taught to fight by my mom who was also a woman was basically mortifying to the point of pain. Like, I would rather have gone to school naked, or swallowed fire, or died.