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High School Sweethearts: Discovering Your Passion
When I was 14, me and my geography class got herded down to the library. They forced us to endure a presentation about careers. It wasn’t very good. All I remember is our guidance counselor sweating behind a podium. Then we were given worksheets. The first question (after our name, I guess) was the hardest:…
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Holy F*ck (Publishing, Agents, and Burger King)
There comes a time in every young man’s life when he must reckon with the big questions. Who am I? What am I doing here? Why can’t my phone hold a charge? Why won’t my best friend shut the fuck up about Instapots? Am I being high maintenance or am I just grappling with mountains…
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Reports of My Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Oh. Hello. Ummm. This is awkward. Isn’t it? Well, uh, don’t just stand there! Kick your shoes off. Come in! Have a seat! No. Not that one. The one that’s not currently festooned with cobwebs. So. Hi. Um. I guess it has been… almost a year since my last blog post? My. How time flies.…
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Turning 30, NaNoWriMo, and Becoming a Human Squid
Oh, hello. Fancy meeting you here. Well not, like, here-here. I have no idea where you are. I’m currently sitting in a crowded Starbucks, squinting against the garish crimson-red Christmas decorations stationed all around me. Songs I’m too old to recognize blare overhead, mocking me and my hairline. And speaking of being buffeted against the…