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Invasion

On Sunday night, my friend Angela came into town from the Bay Area via Philadelphia. Being from the Bay Area, she has that semi-punk, I'm cooler than you San Francisco vibe thing going on. Angela is truly a citizen of the world having lived in Colombia, Spain, and England to name a few. She claimed that title years before Angelina Jolie borrowed the phrase as her own. Every time I hear her say it, my immediate thought is "Nope, Angela claimed that title years ago and you can't have it!" O...

I’m not an interesting person?

In recent months, I've discovered I'm a relatively uninteresting person.  I can talk about things I do did at work, I can discuss the book I'm currently reading, the cool stuff I did in my early 20s, every moment of my child's life and I can stretch conversation about the weather to three minutes.   Once the conversation moves beyond these few topics, I'm at a loss for what to say and often say something inappropriate or stupid. My doctor tried really hard to blame it on Asperger's (which I do...

A New Life (or the less Star Wars-like title – Unemployment)

There are a few things you have to do when unemployed. Yes, you have to take every call and email from former coworkers, friends, and family and explain what happened. Yes, you have to tell the story over and over again ad nauseum.   Yes, you have to sound upbeat and chipper as if this is no big deal and sure, the last time you were unemployed Taco Bell had a 59 cent menu and now the cheapest thing is 89 cents!   And yes, by the sixteenth communication, you have to start embellishing the story a...