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Don’t Be That Guy: The Finance Department
As a writer, I work in the communications division of my organization. We’re very spread out, mostly along the second floor of our building. Although, our poor copy editor is on the fifth floor, which makes for very interesting walkabouts during the editing process. Anyway, by some weird twist of assigned seating fate, I sit…
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I Live With Kanye West, and You Can Too
I am, it goes without saying, an incredibly lucky girl (well, for something that goes without saying, I’m about to spend a couple of hundred words saying it). I’m lucky for many reasons—my naturally curly hair being one of them—but perhaps I’m most lucky for having my personal chauffeur-chef-stylist-interior decorator-banker XFE in my life to…
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Backup Plan in Case Blogging Doesn’t Make Me Rich: Entrepreneur
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about my future. I share the dream of most Americans in that someday I want to boss people around, have them do my bidding while they make me great sums of money on which I can lounge all day in a chinchilla bikini. What I’m saying is, I’d make…
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Are You Not Inspired?
First off, I’d like to thank the academy. Wait, is this thing on? I have, for some reason, been called inspiring once again. And apparently there’s some sort of award for it. Or, at least, some sort of old-timey websticker thingy with a bunch of curly cues and a quill. Because apparently, Ye Olden Days were inspiring.…
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A Post In Which I (Again) Complain About Running
(*Part of an Ongoing Series of Indeterminate Length) I started running again this month. Because August in Washington DC is just so refreshing and wonderful and I have such a natural affinity for running that doing it in weather that reminds one of warm pea soup is so incredibly pleasant and even, dare I say…
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So, It’s Shark Week.
I can tell by the keyword searches that are bringing folks to thePoeLog that the worldwide Interwebs audience is breathless with anticipation to hear my thoughts on Shark Week. The keyword searches this week have consistently been shark related (well, except for a very odd and brief divergence into Kate Gosselin territory in which someone…
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Totally Pretentious Food Truck Review: BBQ Bus
It’s a boiling hot Thursday afternoon. I’m wearing a white t-shirt (under a cardigan, so it’s subzero work appropriate). And I need lunch. So it makes sense that I stopped by the BBQ Bus food truck. It wasn’t meant to happen like this. I had a dentist appointment at noon, after which I planned on…