I'm wondering why Easter isn't as big an American holiday as Christmas. Here is my friend Robert's response:I think it boils down to this: Would you rather go to a friend's (or savior's) baby shower or execution? Christmas is easier to co-opt than Easter because it's...
To me Easter is like the sad, overshadowed cousin of Christmas. It's not lit up with colored lights, it doesn't sparkle with (fake) ice and snow and there's no magical figure that flies through the night to bring you WHATEVER YOU WANT. Easter just sort of languishes....
Candy Finnegan - bulimia interventionist (Oprah show)
So tired of being a waitress. Feet hurt. Feet hurt almost all the time. Don't like being up late. So tired of being up late.I'm giving myself one month to find some other way of earning a living. Something I can do SITTING DOWN. My feet hurt so much from being pounded...
In the past couple of months bloggers Modigli and DCNats have retired their blogs. Modigli explained that the erosion of her blogger anonymity made her feel like she couldn't express herself as candidly as she had when her blog was newer. Blogger.com's new format...
I've been sitting with these suggestions and ideas from friends and I've been considering the ones that sound most appealing to me. I even found someone to ask questions of about the cable show idea.But yesterday I realized that of all the possibilities, the one I...
I work in a restaurant, but am ready to move on to a new career. I just don't know what career that is. I've hired a life coach to help me figure it out and he's been great. With him I've worked through a lot of chapter 10 of What Color Is Your Parachute? I am at a...
The National Public Radio website reports that anthropologist Chris McCollum finds that couples tell very similar stories about how they fell in love. He had found that when talking about how they found a job, people tell stories about very deliberately following...
For those who pay attention to Valentine's Day (and thank god most people don't), it tends to either soar or suck. Here's my contribution for all the women who pay attention to it, but aren't coupled and have never been married (especially those of us who are...
My friend Robert commented on my last post, "What I want to know is what would make you, Regina Rodriguez, truly feel like a success? We all know that you think of yourself as a failure, despite our love, respect, admiration, and protestations to the contrary. I want...
(My high school recently sent out an invitation to speak at their Career Day. I'm too far away to do that, but it got me thinking about what I could POSSIBLY say. I think my best shot at this point would be the following...)Career Days are full of people who can stand...
Incredibly, I'm still maintaining the job I landed last summer as a server at a downtown Chicago Chinese restaurant. Much more credibly, I'm once again feeling the pull to move on (anyone surprised?).What I've Done with My Desire to Change Jobs AGAIN1. Feel...
Okay, here's a photo of me (taken with my new digital camera that my boyfriend got me for Christmas or I wouldn't have one) showing my bad haircut, although now it's not NEARLY as bad as it was two months ago. See how it flips out at the bottom? I hate that. I have...
My 2005 new year's resolution was to start drinking alcohol. I succeeded before I failed, which is to say I did drink alcohol regularly for most of that year and I developed a bit of a palate for it, but then I lost interest again and finally resigned myself to being...
It's been a month and a half since Mirror Mirror at Randolph and Halsted gave me a terrible haircut that made my hair look like Keith Partridge's. The extra inch that my hair has grown in adds to the length of the cut, but doesn't change the shape. Now I look more...