Siddity in the City

Me, talking to credit reporting agency rep: I’m looking at my report, and everything is up to date, but your website also says I paid something late recently–too recently to be on the report–but you still lowered my credit score. It won’t say waht was paid late, though. But I don’t know what could be […]

It’s an awkward mouthful of a title. I don’t much care, though.
During a routine call to the fam a few nights ago, I had a casual chat with my high school-age brother. It went something like this:
Bro: What’s good, pimpin’? (Yeah…I tried to break him of this particular term of address. Now he does it […]

So, I’m chatting with a potential roommate last weekend and I’m all, “Yeah, I went to Yale, yeah, I’m trying to be a journalist.”
And she’s all, “OMG, do you watch Gilmore Girls? The lead on that show is a journalism major at Yale! She heads the YDN!”
And I’m all, “WTF? Yale doesn’t have a journalism […]

Sometimes I think the malarkey members of the media get up to is more interesting than anything they report.
A 40-something male sports reporter at the LA Times is taking a break to have sexual reassignment surgery. The ongoing identity saga I respect, and I sincerely hope that when Mike returns as Chrisitne, he finds the […]

Oof. Four days into the new year and it’s already kicking my ass.
I need a time out.
I’ve been thinking long and hard about what steps to take next in my life. At the moment, I seem to be in a frustrating holding pattern, circling just over what it should be–job, apartment, school, whatever. I’m […]