My mom is an excellent mom. She knows I am irascible, prickly, and antisocial. She knows that most human interaction makes me tired and that I either scare people away with precise invectives or trot out the fakest, nicest skinjob of myself because it requires zero effort.
Food rules. Little rivals the pleasure of tearing into a glistening burger.
'Awkward' is a ubiquitous teen word to denote socially unsanctioned behavior. It usually implies first- or secondhand embarrassment when you or a friend step outside the rules. Awkward doesn't sound overtly judgmental or negative; it's deliberately vague.
In order to be a good emergency contact, you need a lot of friend-patience and empathy. Often, this comes from personal experience with anxiety, trauma, and depression.
Reading aloud to other people is wonderful - if you have people who will suffer it.
I find texting to be kind of a safe space.
Even the coolest jobs get stultifying with repetition, and the only way to break that cycle is to bring another job into the mix.
SoulCycle feels gross, is gross, and I'm grateful to have found it.
Never post anything personal to your Facebook wall. Or anyone else's, for that matter. Only snitches and teachers look at Facebook.
I have horrible shoe hang-ups. Particularly when it comes to flats.
Everyone is such a mystery, yet we chug along so much of the time presuming we're all on the same page.
I'm a sucker when it comes to under-explored human potential and 'stuff that makes you be better.'
I was born in Korea and left before my first birthday.
I am obsessed with Neil Patrick Harris on Twitter.
By the time you're in your 30s, unless somebody makes the god-awful decision to gift you with a cooking class or salsa lessons, it may have been a while since you learnt something new.
If you are someone's emergency contact - you are their person, and they are your person - there is work involved.
Nothing is more untoward than a grown man tasking another with snapping a pic expressly so he can 'flex the 'fit.' It's tacky -self-aggrandizing - and speaks to an existential neediness typically reserved for failed actresses and phenomenally successful rappers.
Learning to ride a bike in a public park means anyone can see you.
Instagram is not a place for tone or irony.
The thing about leaving New York is that you can come back.
