Category: Rants
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Want Fewer People Living in Your Head Rent-Free? Visualize Giving Them Money
I was winning quite the mental argument this morning. I do this with my evil coworker frequently – let’s call him Mr. Asshole. I rehearsed speeches proving the disaster at work wasn’t my fault. I thought about the clever insults I could use to make the other guy look bad. I even imagined myself taking…
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What Would You Do if You Didn’t Suck?
I scrolled through reddit so much today my eyes ached. I stress-ate Indian samosas because work was stressful, and then I drank a bottle of wine to top it off. I am now considering ordering enough Taco Bell delivery to commit biological warfare and figured I should at least give the angel on my shoulder…
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Have a Quote that Helps You in Dark Moments? Putting Mine on a Bracelet Changed Everything
So there I was, half way through a tub of cookie dough, empty Panda Express delivery box beside me, and an inbox full of work emails I’d been ignoring all day. This was a pretty ugly relapse. I’m still not 100% sure what triggered it, but I definitely got caught up in the escapism and…
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This is a Wake-Up Call for You to Fix Your Shit
On a scale of 1-10, how much does your life suck? Is there a lot of suck in your life? If life had suck coupon cards would you be 9/10 of the way to a free lawn mower? Good, then you and I have something in common. I’ve done a bunch of empirical research (read:…
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Screwing Up Sometimes is Okay. Self-Sabotage is Not.
Yesterday I bought a package of cookie dough. 170 calories per square, or as the naive darlings at Toll House call it, “one serving.” I call it a “half of a bite” but it’s hard to measure exact portions when you’re tearing open the package and taking bites out of the cookie dough brick as…
Millennial Anxiety 