Chicana on the Edge

So... -- after all my hardened bitterness from too many lonely, manless years and -- after all the advice I’ve received that suggested that I’d find a man if I weren’t so bitter and -- after all my dating jadedness and anger because it felt like the world had cheated...

I said, “Do you always have to have this many lights on?”He said “Yeah, I like a lot of light.”I said, “Well, I hadn’t turned any lights on because I like it dark.”He said, “Okay.”I said, “So we’re pretty much going to be, like, you’ll be walking into rooms and...

Okay, my part-time job search is now a full-time job search. I've had it. I do not belong in this restaurant. It's just not for me and I don't want to be there. I'm throwing myself into seeking and applying to restaurants that want full-time servers, whether they're...

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Does anyone have any suggestions for how I could fix my blog? The sidebar is down at the bottom! At least, that's what I see. That is how it looks to you, isn't it?

Tonight I had a very encouraging job interview. Before I went to the interview I was talking to my friend Robert, NYC jazz pianist, about my job woes. I was saying that I feel surrounded by co-workers who crave the tidal wave of customers that crush you and then...

He's always liked dark hair and dark eyes.I've always liked tall, lanky white guys.If more of our compatibilities rhyme,I could be stuck with this guy for some time.

Um, okay. I guess this is about right. T.S. Eliot was one of my favorite poets in college. And that was when I had hope for my life. Which literature classic are you? T.S.Eliot: The Wasteland. You are a desperate cry to God, moulded in intricate word-craftmanship....

HERE we go! From Craig's list:Looking for Club Dancers Reply to: job-142045031@craigslist.org Date: 2006-03-15, 3:05AM CSTEstablished Chicago nightclub looking for new, fresh, female sexy dancers for Friday night gig. Exp. a plus but not important. Please forward pics...

Okay, here's the compromise solution to my life: I cannot live on what I'm earning as a hostess right now, so I'm back on job search for a part-time position as a server. A part-time job will allow me to earn what I need, plus I'll get a chance to find out what...

Last Friday March 10th, as I worked at 33 W. Monroe, I noticed there was a demonstration happening nearby. I managed to catch a bit of what was going on, but I was far from really knowing the details. It turns out our friend Elf was there. I asked him to write a brief...

From News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: The Wichita Eagle reported in January that Mary Capps, 45, had filed a $75,000 gender-discrimination lawsuit against her former boss at a municipal office in Park City, Kansas, claiming he'd used "abusive, intimidating...