#The Smiths
Menu editor by day, bad movie lover by night. My ultimate goal in life is to end up on Tom Hanks' speed dial.
I write about my culinary + eating adventures at Introverted Gastronome.
I Tweet too much at @blessthisjess.
Patton Oswalt’s improv-ed Star Wars filibuster on Parks + Rec is a lot more enjoyable when you have visualization of the madness.
I made this and it is good, I think.
My everyday face is a combination of Confused and Disgusted.
(Source: kaboomtheory, via jlawrence)
Happy Early Mother’s Day to my beloved cool mom.
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the number one question i get is “how do you afford living in new york city?” and really, if you know where to scrimp and save, it isn’t so hard.
- Work a full-time job, two part-time jobs, have a freelance business, and several standing gigs that you pick up when rent’s due. Work a combined…
Don’t forget to walk everywhere (outer-borough kids, find a bridge to cross), steal all the seltzers from the office pantry, use someone else’s Netflix account (at least until the Powers That Be lay the smackdown on that), flirt for discounts and free drinks, and take full advantage of mailing lists for free movie screenings/concerts/middle-of-the-day dance parties.
A couple of years ago, (around this time although I do not remember the day nor does it warrant looking up) I, too, graduated college.
That’s right, you fresh crop of Facebook photo albums, I ALSO once carried a smart phone while frantically looking for my parents post-ceremony, lost in a sea of light cardigans and Ann Taylor mom pants. That’s right, you group shots of bright cheeks and “it’s weird that I hooked up with him and he got in this picture anyway!” I was there once. I held the diploma and then stuck it on my wall instead of burning or eating it. I did it as well.
Time, you devil. I look at these Twitter statuses, ye throngs of faithful social media mavens, displaying optimism and fear and all that lies in between—and I feel old. Well, not old in the way Rose was SO old she deemed it perfectly fine to drop a bajillion dollar necklace in the sea. Old in the way that my bread feels old: moldly, but still potentially usable.
I’ve been getting nostalgic about graduating from my alma mater two years ago. The first thing that comes to mind when looking back is, Man, the only goal I had walking down that aisle was to be a writer. And then I think about all the other stuff I’ve accomplished during the past 731 days instead - solidifying relationships with my immediate family and close-knit group of friends, somehow surviving living in NYC, making tons of mistakes and learning from then, losing 50+ pounds on my own, learning to respect the humble kale chip, paying my own bills without going broke, falling in love with myself, knowing my own self-worth, etc. I’ve come a long way since Fordham. Kudos to me.
@1 week ago with 196 notesI didn’t want to be the one to forget.
I thought of everything that never occurred.
A little time with you is all that I crave.
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I guess I’m just going to keep posting Betty Who songs until there aren’t any left, because with each listen I become more convinced that she’s the one to save pop music in 2013, and this song in particular gives me so many thrilling happy-sad chills it feels like my heart is going to collapse in my chest. It’s like Katy Perry, but Madonna, but better.
And I mean, really, fuck. Find me a more heartbreaking lyric this year than “Don’t try and tell me you don’t want to see / What it would be like to grow old with me.”
‘Tis the season for upbeat pop tunage. Seriously infatuated with Betty Who.