Posts tagged ‘FML’

June 15th, 2010

Why Facebook Had To Go.

In case you were wondering what my Vacation from Facebook* was all about... The 10 occurrences that lead me to conclude that Facebook Had To Go.

1. I actually used “facebook” in conversation. Fuck, I actually have had entire conversations about facebook. Double-fuck. I used to make fun of those people whose daily events consisted of someone’s “reply” to a “status”... people wouldn’t dare discuss such stupidity with me, and yet here I sat, on the phone actually LISTENING and CONTRIBUTING to such childish nonsense... fuck, I feel like I have regressed to 7th grade. read more »

April 3rd, 2008

Project Boyfriend: Part 1

I don’t quite know how I got here.

My bags unpacked, boxes stacked in the hall, the smell of dinner still in the air, I make my way into the kitchen to put away the leftovers. I am playing house, I tell myself. This is just a game. We are all 10 year olds and the furniture is Fisher Price. I push reality away: I just moved in with a guy I’ve been dating for not nearly long enough to be sharing a living space with. Come to think of it no real “dating” occurred. I wasn’t really “moved in”, I was “staying” at his new place until I found my own. A week and a half of this living arrangement later, I was still procrastinating with the apartment search. I liked having someone to live with, someone to come home to, someone to eat dinner with before I fell asleep while watching TV. My moving in...er... “staying over” for an indefinite period of time was his idea. He insisted and although uncomfortable with the idea, after a few weeks I complied.  I look over at him across the room: my boyfriend. The words just don’t sit right on my tongue. I have a boyfriend? Yes, I do. A perfect boyfriend, who has a real job, who doesn’t do ANY drugs, does not read more »