have you ever been chatting with a friend when, all of a sudden, they say one little phrase or word that is so annoying or out of context or superfluous, that you just tune out the rest of the conversation while you grind your teeth hard enough so that you don’t tell him/her to shut up? well, maybe i’m just really touchy, but this happens quite often. with the help of two friends, sophia and roxie, i’ve compiled a list of some of those phrases that just really grind our gears.

readers, feel free to leave a comment with a phrase that you absolutely hate. (more…)

at twenty-one years old, i will easily admit that i do not know who i am or who i want to be or, quite simply, what i am doing with my life. in fact, i am proud of this. i don’t pretend to have a clear goal to achieve in the next few years of my life or a finish line to get to in the near future. anyone who asks me, “so what are you going to school for?” or something along the lines of “so what do you want to do when you graduate?” i will, without hesitation, usually reply: “er i don’t really know. i’m just going to see what happens after graduation.” see? i don’t know and i’m kind of okay with that. i figure that, i will know someday. i will know who i am and what i want to do and where i’ll want to go in life. for now, though, i’m kinda just absorbing little fragments of people i meet into my own personality or certain mantras i read in books or, not so profound, fashion tips from characters in movies i watch. (more…)

i don’t know what it was about amc’s Mad Men that lured me into unequivocal devotion. the first time i saw it on tv was halfway through season two. i don’t remember what episode it was. i didn’t know the names of the dark-haired men, all looking extremely dashing in skinny ties and sucking on cigarettes. (i later learned that one of them was deep-in-the-closet Sal Romano and the other was the so-beautiful-it-hurts-to-look-at-much-like-a-lunar-eclipse Don Draper.) in that minute or so that i didn’t change the channel, i guess something just hit me because before i knew it, i was spending way too much money at the itunes store, downloading every episode of the first season, and all the episodes i had missed from the second. (more…)