I think life would be a smidge easier if I easily identified with a group, label or subcommunity. Being equal parts hipster, gamer geek, and bro (and other things), and being passionate about all of them makes me feel very bait-and-switch when I interact with people.  I can talk in depth about something like a video game mechanic but I am equally ( Read more... )

I fake-married Nick on Facebook, which apparently caused a 20+ comment hubbub ( Read more... )

A 29-year old investment manager, a deviant from any type of person I could consider dating, told me that he liked me, not just because I was pretty, but because I had all these interests he never knew about based on our daily interaction.  Even though I turned him down and bruised his ego, he picked up the entire bar tab ($100+ for him, me, and my ( Read more... )

As an afterthought, I was browsing old XKCDs and this one brought a smile to my face.


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We ran around Boston in the cold mist. Is it a sin that no non-pharmacy store sells any variant of a temporary or permanent human temperature-taking device? In a dazed panic, she cursed herself for not charging her cell phone, and I cursed myself for not getting my new weekly T Pass earlier or bringing my phone to call up my savvy nurse of a ( Read more... )