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Should I feel bad that I pretty much have experienced all of these? Put a star by the one about getting angrier… You have a lot on your mind, just not work. The work doesn’t challenge you and time hangs. “Boredom is a big factor,” Hollander said. “When it’s just a job, it’s time to […]

With regular gym workouts comes, once again, regular aches and pains. When I first started taking martial arts classes, I was sore for three months. No kidding. Let’s hope the recovery’s quicker this time. In any case, hot damn, it’s nice to be moving again. I really like being strong. I’ve missed this.

As a woman who travels a lot and has well meaning parents, I get these “you should be scared shitless!” e-mails all the time, you know: I allude to those rape-avoidance-tips emails, the kind written by “the police department” and sent by your well-meaning friend, warning you to always look under your car for attackers

Why are there so many tampons in our house? I was digging around for more pads in our bathroom cabinet this morning, trying to clear space around the boxes and boxes of tampons tumbling out of the cabinet and spilling onto the floor. Why are there so many tampons in our house? I don’t use

Do you really need to listen to sports scores and track the minute by minute countdown (from 60 minutes) of the shuttle launch on the speakers of your computer without using headphones and then narrate your experiece for the rest of us at 8 o’clock in the morning when some of us, who require 8-10

The coffeemaker at work is broken. You’d think this would be enough tragedy for one day. I’m stuck here in the back of the office with a bunch of architect temps, including Viagra Guy, who felt it neccessary to call his pharmacist from work and request that they give him more Viagra pills because, “I

::collapse:: Beer… beeeeerr… must… have…. beeeeeerrrrr….

Interesting experiment by Marie Claire magazine: We photographed a gorgeous, size-14 model in a neutral pose and made the unretouched photos into two mobile billboards. Then we gave each billboard a vastly different message: one confident (“I think I’m sexy. Do you?”), one unsure (“I think I’m fat. Do you?”). We asked everyone who saw

No? No? Someone called the house this morning at 5am – THREE TIMES. Finally, on the third call, someone with a slight Irish accent actually replied to my angry “HELLO!!!” and said they’d been trying to fax something three times (“I KNOW!!!” I said), and wasn’t this New York? “No, this is a RESIDENCE in

If they have the balls to do it, it might go something like this: 1) The legality of abortion will get kicked back to the states, so blue states will have the procedure, some of the bigger red and mostly southern states won’t, and I’ll be smuggling in terrified pregnant teenagers from Indiana into Illinois