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Eurotrip: Barcelona & Athens
Last month I had the extreme privilege of attending an international user experience (UX) research trip with my team. The locations were Barcelona, Spain and Athens, Greece. Some from our team also attended a third leg of the trip in Casablanca, Morocco, but I wisely planned on only two countries for this trip. As I Continue reading
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Welcome Home to Seattle
I recently moved to Silicon Valley to work at Facebook which has been an incredible experience. One of the perks of my job is that I’ll get to travel all over the world on user research trips. I also support a team located at Facebook’s Seattle office, which I visited two weeks ago. Seattle has Continue reading
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I Smoked Weed in an Uber
Yesterday I had plans to meet a friend for drinks at a German joint called Der Biergarten in downtown Atlanta. Not wanting to deal with downtown parking or driving after a few steinfuls, I booked an Uber to pick me up from my house in Cabbagetown. Immediately after hitting “Request UberX” the driver calls me. Continue reading
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The Paper Route
I don’t think Mom delivered papers much longer after that night, but it was definitely the most punk rock thing I had ever seen. Continue reading
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44 Homocide-Inducing Corporate Jargon Terms
In June of last year, I started working as a copywriter and content creator for a gargantuan national retailer, by far the largest corporation I’ve ever worked for. Along with learning the veritable alphabet soup of job position and department acronyms, I started to become keenly aware of the liberal, one might even say egregious, use Continue reading
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There Goes the Neighborhood
After three and a half years of living in Atlanta, I finally made it out of suburgatory and moved to the city. Not to say that my time in Chambodia wasn’t great; where else in the South can you get a car wash, a lap dance, and an authentic bowl of pho at 3 a.m.? Continue reading
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Mescaline & Diarrhea: A Fuck Valentine’s Day Rant
I could say that this is a bullshit holiday invented by capitalist pig greeting card companies and manufacturers of waxy, mediocre chocolates. These same companies that undoubtedly have contracts with Weight Watchers and 100 Calorie Packs, which as we all know, if you mow down a box of six, does not equal 600 calories. It’s Continue reading
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An Open Letter of Hate to the Woman in 12A
Dear Woman Sitting Behind Me in 12A on This Flight to Vegas, For the last two and a half hours I’ve been suppressing a distinct and snowballing hatred for you. You insist on squawking at full volume on and on about all the mundane things that come to your mind. Dismal proof of your repressed Continue reading
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Age of the Eighties Party
Editor’s Note: This was a rant that I wrote my first year at SCAD in 2007-08. I submitted it to District, SCAD’s newspaper, the following year but of course it didn’t get published. We’ve all been to one at some point in our lives, or at least we’ve seen the pictures. The mindless droll that Continue reading
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Book Review: Townie
A few weeks ago I finished reading a memoir called Townie by Andre Dubus III, author of House of Sand and Fog. Townie was a powerful book on multiple levels; it was raw and visceral, heartbreaking, and utterly inspiring to me as a writer. Townie is a story of what it’s like to grow up poor, nearly Continue reading
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