Today I am twenty five. Twenty five on the twenty-fifth. This is somehow significant, although I feel like people who turned 21 on the 21st enjoyed it more.
So far today has been pretty nice, aside from the fact that the second person to wish me happy birthday was my dentist, Dr. Roznick (good guy). This [...]
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A quarter century of snark
In which I write lengthily about nothing
1. I didn’t blog on my vacation. Because I decided not to. Because it was my vacation.
2. Besides, what’s going on in Charlotte? I know I’ve been gone for 10 days so that doesn’t help – but ever since my “reduction in force” departure from uptown I feel completely disconnected from the city. University city [...]
Meck does the Olympics
In high school I was in dance bootcamp every single day. Literally, every day. I left school at 1pm to be at the studio by 2pm. Then all the advance level bun-heads (myself included) took a supplement class (yoga, pilates before it was cool, hiphop, modern, jump workshop, pas de deux, [...]
Wii Fit has a death wish.
I was doing some reading for class when my boyfriend’s roommate’s girlfriend, Turbo (who gained this nickname from an introductory pole and strip tease class we took at Pole Dance Charlotte), asked if I wanted to play Wii Fit with her. In my mind I was all, wii fit, like, the exercise one? but of [...]
Quibbles and bits
This post is going to start on a happy note and move straight into a grrrr one.
Happiness: Wednesday night, my boyfriend and I went to Bonterra for Charlotte Restaurant Week. Oh. Mmm. Gee. Freaking Delicious. A truly impressive meal, which I don’t say very often, especially during Queen’s Feast. I had the soup du jour(ginger [...]
Linguistics: or how I learnt/ed to start worrying and hate grad school
I should preface this by saying that this next paragraph is going to sound really snooty. But, I wasn’t really expecting grad school to be hard. Ok, hard maybe. But not haaaaaaard, like the omfg what have I done, I’m seriously paying for this abuse, kind of hard. You see, up until my world started [...]
In 2009
In January I moved uptown. I met a boy who led me on for three months and a boy I would fall in love with. I watched as the first layoffs left the law firm.
In February I got a $1000 tax refund. I spent Valentine’s Day with The Musician, my 24th birthday with friends, and [...]
Merry Christmas from KUWTB
Now I’m not usually one for rumor spreading, and I can neither confirm nor deny that this actually happened, but one little birdie told another little birdie who tweeted in my ear that a certain memo went out around the City of Charlotte specifying that the glittering sculpture decorating Tryon street outside of the Bechtler should only [...]
Merry Christmas to Meck!
So I know I haven’t blogged in like 20 days (i know, i know) but things have been happening (more on that later). But I just had to pop in to say I will be blogging a lot more from now on because:
#1 i’m unemployed
#2 i’m a full time student again
#3 i got a new [...]
Grammo/Typo nitpicking will not be tolerated
In light of recent comments asking me to please understand the difference between “where” and “wear”, I’ve decided to remind readers that KUWTB has a very strict policy against grammo/typo nitpicking in comments. Meaning, if you feel the need to point out obvious accidental errors then you will either be mocked for not having anything [...]
