Tag: rants
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Procrastinating on my New Year’s Resolutions
Hey, have you heard? It’s a new year or something. And we’re all supposed to make big resolutions or goals or intentions or whatever. I’ll admit it: I do get caught up in that whole resolutions business. It’s just the excitement of closing a chapter on something old and getting a fresh new start on…
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How to Deal with Freelancing Uncertainty Explained via Vanderpump Rules GIFs
I feel like a broken record, but hey there. I know, I know. I’ve been MIA in the blogging world. Well, I am contributing to blogs, but they’ve been on behalf of clients. Not this blog. This blog has been neglected, like a lonely, unwanted redheaded stepchild. Which is part of the “problem” and a…
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Reality TV Time: Below Deck Mediterranean
My travel-buddy-for-life XFE and I just got back from a soccer roadtrip through the South, which was basically 3,000 miles of varying degrees of traffic and highways broken up by stops for soccer (go Tottenham), kitschy tourist locales (I’d never been to South of the Border, but I have now), barhopping at country honkytonks (Nashville…
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Hotel Crashing: 4 Other Places We Stayed in Sri Lanka
Because I really cannot top our stay (and odd massage experience) at the Signature Amaya Kandalama, I’m condensing (ha!) the rest of our hotel accommodations in Sri Lanka into this one little (ok, NOT little) post. Most of them were one-nighters anyway, with the exception of the beach house in Unwatana. But they each had…
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The Most Dangerous Job in Sri Lanka
Hey. Let’s talk about driving. Specifically, driving in Sri Lanka. Or as it should more accurately be called, defying death every single breath. I live just a short metro ride away from downtown D.C. in a very lovely, historic neighborhood with all the restaurants and shopping my little heart desires located just blocks from my…
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An Overview of Sri Lanka, Privileged Tourism and Getting in My Own Head
On paper, Sri Lanka was a no brainer for us—our logical next vacation destination. It has a lot of the things we gravitate towards as travelers—we like South/Southeast Asia (admittedly, one of us a bit more than the other). We love the spicy food in this area of the world, with the focus on fresh…
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A Dayquil-Induced Rant Against Pretentious Food Porn Magazines (Mainly, Saveur)
I was deathly ill last week. I was fairly certain it was the summer plague or typhoid. I’m not sure. My guess was walking pneumonia, but I’ll admit I tend to be a bit dramatic on these issues sometimes. It started with a sore throat, some harmless coughing. Then, over the course of the next…
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Lance, Food Fraud, Citi: Things That Have Annoyed Me This Past Week
Blah. That’s how I’ve been feeling the last week or so. Just….blah. I guess I’ve had a case of the blues. The sads. A big, old basket of existential ennui. The icky, cold and miserable weather did not help. I have no get-up-and-go when the weather is this cold. I (mostly) blame the Lance Armstrong…
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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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Book Clubbing (and Who Do You Think You Are, Anthropologie?)
Can we be uber-lame (besides just using the term “uber”) and start a blog book club? You might think that such an idea was inspired by the Great Poe (not me, the other great Poe, that Edgar dude) or by the fact that I am, technically, a writer (as in: somebody actually pays me a…