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Girls are sometimes cowards too

This is a followup post to my “boys are cowards” blog from Friday because I’ve gotten a substantial response and there are a few things I’d like to address.

The first thing is the nature of my failed relationships. My friend Ben asked if it was on purpose, that I broke up with the boys the way they asked me out. And upon rereading my post, I realize it does sound like that a bit. So I guess the first thing is really my defense. Continue reading “Girls are sometimes cowards too”

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Boys are cowards and other musings

Harry Potter shirt. Oh yeah. You know you want a piece of this action.

So a few weeks ago, when I wrote Flummoxed, as a lot of you probably guessed, much of that story was true. That’s kind of what it’s like up in my head. I’m constantly realizing how socially inept I really am and, thus, constantly looking for ways to get out of social interactions. Sometimes, I swear this is true, I plan my bathroom use schedule around the times I know the least amount of people will be around. But that’s not what I want to talk about today. I want to talk about something else that I mentioned in Flummoxed that happens to be based on real life. The whole “being asked out” thing. Continue reading “Boys are cowards and other musings”

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OMG Eric Stangel- An Open Letter

Last night, my grandmother retweeted a little quip from The Late Show w/ David Letterman’s executive producer Eric Stangle. “LOL, OMG & FYI added to Oxford English Dictionary. Do people who write LOL, OMG & FYI even use dictionaries?” Naturally, I had to reply. “yes. Just because they’re new words doesn’t mean they’re any less of words. They’re just new. That’s the point.” It seems I have more to say, however. Continue reading “OMG Eric Stangel- An Open Letter”