Dear Harvard,

See you on January 3rd.  I'll be on my sofa.  Chillin' like a villian.

Love,
Rachel

. . . that I would enjoy playing Fantasy Football? (Or Fairytale Football as I call it)

Maybe it has something to do with the fact that the other people in my league are my coworkers, so when I win I can rub it in their faces. Or perhaps that the Yahoo Fantasy sports website allows you to have a personal avatar which you can dress up in different ( Read more... )

So the dust has settled and I'm back at work.  People keep asking me if I feel different.  The answer to that question is no.  (Aside from having to call John my husband instead of my fiancee, and the fact that I have to jump through fiery hoops to legally change my name.)  We lived together for 2 years.  Now we have rings.  It's pretty much the ( Read more... )

There's this thing about being a grown up. You have to sleep at night. I have to be awake, functional and even enthusiastic for a bare minimum of 8 hours a day.  And sadly, this requires me to be in bed before 11 most nights. I say sadly because, while I clearly do love sleep, what I love even more is the middle of the night. And I miss it terribly ( Read more... )

I think i've overdosed on blogs and blog-like substances ( Read more... )

I just looked at my journal and realized I haven't written anything in a month. Where does the time go ( Read more... )

sigh . . . .

I'm a tired monkey. I wish we could have naptime at my office. That would rock.

last night when I fell asleep it hadn't started snowing yet. some people (coughJOHNcough) thought it probably wouldn't at all. so when I woke up at 9:30 this morning I, very uncharacteristically, leaped from my bed to look out the window. Surprise! holy fucking blizzard batman! we had to have gotten 12-15 inches today. it was insane. we went ( Read more... )

Graduate School Barbie vs. Real World Skipper

Today is Day 5 of this whole real-world, grown-up, full-time job thing. It's been interesting so far, the work we do at The David Project feels important and exciting. But I have to say, as someone who's been a student forever and has basically been doing NOTHING for the past 6 months or so, when that ( Read more... )

I HAVE A JOB!

I am officially a real person in the real world with a real job ( Read more... )