If I get to attend the DNC I can die a happy journalist So someone from work recently floated by the possibility that I may potentially sorta possibly kinda have the chance to attend the DNC. As in, THE MUTHAFUCKIN’ DNC! How amazingly cool would that be? And not just as a spectator, but as a PRESS LIAISON between the DNC and the ethnic press corps. Press liaison! [...] Wherein the shit hit the fan In the weeks and months leading up to The Big Move, I’d been doing pretty well, in my opinion, packing boxes, booking one-way tickets and attending farewell dinners without much incident. No teary goodbyes or misty reminiscing; just “Hey, keep in touch, maybe I’ll catch you if I come back for Thanksgiving.” The Boyfriend has [...] Check out my pre-pubescent marketing clairvoyance Was cleaning out my closet and packing for the upcoming move, when I found this: I do believe I was the very first person to create a Harry Potter board game, anticipating the whole J.K. Rowling craze. Even though it was never fully completed (I couldn’t find the trivia questions), I still applaud my own 13-year-old [...] Quit raggin’ on my city, assholes Chicago is a top tier town. Just because we’re located out in the Midwest doesn’t mean we don’t have amazing restaurants, great public transit, and architecture that kicks your city’s architecture’s ass. So bully for you if you love your town, but living out in the East Coast or West Coast doesn’t make you an [...] Next chapter, writer’s block Funny how a year can zip by so quickly. Unpin the memos from the wall, clear out the bottom cabinet drawer, and it’s like I was never there. Now that my yearlong stint at the nonprofit is up, what’s a girl to do? Become a cliché, is what - i.e. an out-of-work writer soon to be [...] UTAH: the liveblog Over the last month or two I’ve spent way too much time thinking about Utah, planning to be in Utah and actually being in Utah, so for past few days I’ve been recuperating from all the dry heat and Mormons. The Organization’s biennial convention took place in Salt Lake City this year — why couldn’t [...] “You are an intellectual guerrilla warrior” Quote of the day, scrawled on my Facebook wall: “You are an intellectual guerrilla warrior. You spring from obscurity and fire shots such as ‘Paultard’ or ‘bleh’ and then BOOM, you vanish into obscurity until the next attack.” - my friend Brad, lover of Ron Paul and Ayn Rand, in response to my sporadic communication with him [...] Can I go out and play? It’s GORGEOUS outside today, and I can’t keep my head on straight at work because of this surmounting urge to run out to the nearest park and lay down on the grass. Instead, I’m stuck inside the office, editing a research project and trying to figure out where my notes are, because my desk is [...] I Will Not Buy That Rucksack For World Peace Hey guys. I know, I haven’t blogged for a while, though it’s not for lack of Things Happening In My Life; I’ve just been consumed with a research project at work and prepping for our organization’s biennial convention in Utah, where I’ve learned that the halved alcohol content of beer there might be more conducive [...] Sex and the City of Fairytales Like every other 20-something-year-old woman who lives in a metropolitan area and owns a TV, I am continually, if subconsciously, attempting to recreate the glamorously upbeat yuppie lifestyle as portrayed on “Sex and the City.” I wear four-inch patent leather pumps on the bus ride to work. I have candid conversations in public places [...]