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Married friends be like:

How are you? are you OK? Really? Huh. Are you dating? Did you get a new job? Did you get a raise? Do you feel under appreciated at work? Are you moving? Are you happy? Does he love you? Are you alone at night? Are you drinking too many margaritas at dimly lit bars? Are you giving your number out to men you hope will never call? Are you STILL wearing crop tops?

(WAITER CAN WE HAVE ANOTHER)

Ohwowcoolidon’tcarebecause I just bought a house with my beloved where we can trap our dreams in our finished basement and watch them spoil. (WAITER!) And in six months I will get fatter and because i’ll play host to our human offspring! Because society! Congratulate me! Remind me how I look in my wedding dress! Tell me that I will be happy!

GODDAMNIT WHERE IS MY DRINK!

27 is for the birds.

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Married friends be like:

How are you? are you OK? Really? Huh. Are you dating? Did you get a new job? Did you get a raise? Do you feel under appreciated at work? Are you moving? Are you happy? Does he love you? Are you alone at night? Are you drinking too many margaritas at dimly lit bars? Are you giving your number out to men you hope will never call? Are you STILL wearing crop tops?

(WAITER CAN WE HAVE ANOTHER)

Ohwowcoolidon’tcarebecause I just bought a house with my beloved where we can trap our dreams in our finished basement and watch them spoil. (WAITER!) And in six months I will get fatter and because i’ll play host to our human offspring! Because society! Congratulate me! Remind me how I look in my wedding dress! Tell me that I will be happy!

GODDAMNIT WHERE IS MY DRINK!

27 is for the birds.

afterthefacts

exactly this but 29

dailynietzsche

“Must all philosophy not ultimately bring to light our belief in the ego as the sole reality from which we ascribe reality to things in general, being the preconditions upon which the process of reason depends?”

—F. Nietzsche, The Will to Power, §487 (edited excerpt).

macrolit

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

Andre Gide (b. 22 November 1869)

Gone.

It’s official. I’m complete Noorhelm trash now.

I want to be buried barefoot

Black jeans

White top

Crimson lipstick

capricorn-truths

When Capricorn tries to comfort someone….

afterthefacts

yes.

ON WORTH

I started the process of negotiating my first post- mba salary yesterday and it was EMO-TION-AL to say the least. I always considered myself a lady boss in the making, but faced with a male superior on the other end of a phone line telling me that I was worth less than I believed, I froze. I looked frantically at my post-it notes where I’d scribbled firm demands and mantras ( Moving Allowance! Don’t Budge! Expense Account!) and stumbled forward with “I hear what you are saying..,” while in my brain, I fumbled over the research I’d done over similar positions and justifications of my experience, my enthusiasm and then I just stopped. I paused. He waited. “I’m very excited about your offer, but I think X would be more appropriate considering the responsibilities,” I said. He paused. I sweated. “That’s fair,” he said. “I’m sure we can come to a number everyone agrees on. Let’s just call this the start of the conversation. We’ll get back to you next week.”

I was relieved.

Even after the call, when i had reviewed the sayings I knew by heart (”It’s just business, every company is trying to get the best deal) my face was hot. And I was disappointed. Not because i hadn’t successfully negotiated (I had), but because I didn’t even give myself an opportunity to enjoy it! I spent most of the call fretting over my form, (Was my voice pitched too high, was i turning requests into questions). In short, I was embarrassed by feeling female, which in my own twisted head made me weak. I was embarrassed for having to ask for what I was worth, when I was sure, to some degree, that a man wouldn’t have to. Or at least he would be seen as a true opponent in the fight, not a sure thing. And if he did have to negotiate, he would simply demand what he wanted. ( I know this is the most binary view, but it is a generalization.)

NOW. It’s been almost 24 hours and I have a little perspective, a good night’s sleep and a shitload of items on my pro/con list. I’m hoping that I’ll be better on the next call. That I might even enjoy all of the parts of becoming a lady boss. That I will simply state my demands as a fact of my abilities. Because damn it, I’m worth it.

Happy Memorial Day!

#me #mba #lady boss

omg i just asked a question in my branding class about how emotional branding is measurable and everyone looked at me like I was an evil demon.

There is an entire unopened box of fig newtons in my purse and i cannot open them because i am in class and the plastic will make so many sounds and i am so hungry and fig newtons are just so good and I think this is probably what hell is.

#me #mba

Married friends be like:

How are you? are you OK? Really? Huh. Are you dating? Did you get a new job? Did you get a raise? Do you feel under appreciated at work? Are you moving? Are you happy? Does he love you? Are you alone at night? Are you drinking too many margaritas at dimly lit bars? Are you giving your number out to men you hope will never call? Are you STILL wearing crop tops?

(WAITER CAN WE HAVE ANOTHER)

Ohwowcoolidon’tcarebecause I just bought a house with my beloved where we can trap our dreams in our finished basement and watch them spoil. (WAITER!) And in six months I will get fatter and because i’ll play host to our human offspring! Because society! Congratulate me! Remind me how I look in my wedding dress! Tell me that I will be happy!

GODDAMNIT WHERE IS MY DRINK!

27 is for the birds.

#me #27 #married friends