Date registered: April 4, 2011
Scientist, feminist, sex aficionado, stickler for grammar.
Oct
10
Tweet Don’t tell my boss, but it’s 1 AM and I’ve been sitting at my computer for an hour, aimlessly surfing the net and watching Bad Lip Reading on YouTube in a vain attempt to collect my thoughts and explain how much I am feeling about the attack on fourteen-year-old Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai. I …
Sep
27
Tweet There’s a story making its way around the interwebs this week that is absolutely worth a look. It’s an incredibly important message for anyone who has ever felt self-conscious about their appearance (so…everyone). It’s also a lesson in maturity and compassion in the face of ignorance. A Reddit user posted a candid shot of …
Sep
27
Tweet Everyone is unhappy with the replacement refs. That is obvious. I’d bet that they are even unhappy with themselves. The franchise owners and the Officials Union don’t seem to be any closer to reaching an agreement, despite Monday night’s fiasco of a Packers-Seahawks game. In fact, it seems like the worse the replacements refs …
Sep
20
Tweet One of my best friends is getting married this year, and I am honored to be a member of the wedding party. (Bridal party? Team Bride? BrideGuards? I’m not really a wedding expert). The whole process has been really exciting and overwhelming, from looking at bridesmaid’s dresses, to planning our pseudo-Bachelorette weekend, to calculating …
Sep
14
Tweet As a marketer, I spend a lot of time thinking about branding. How people feel about and react to a product, idea or even person is strongly influenced by where it is “positioned.” At my job a given product’s positioning is neatly boiled down into a main point. How the person is supposed to react to …
Sep
11
Tweet Today marks my third September 11 living in New York City, and it can be a tense experience. There’s an abundance of police officers patrolling public spaces, people on the subway seem more jumpy and suspicious, and the 9/11 memorial sends a harrowing beacon of light into the night sky that you can see …
Sep
10
Tweet I wholeheartedly wish that I was playing in a Fantasy Football league that allowed the drafting of Independent Defensive Players, because then I could pick up Raven’s linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo. Not for the points, but rather to show some solidarity during this ridiculous controversy that’s cropped up around him over the past week or …
Aug
22
Tweet I’m sure by now all of you have heard of Senate-hopeful Todd Akin’s ridiculous statement that the female body has ways to “shut down” pregnancy when a woman is raped. In Akin’s mind, it’s “extremely rare” for rape to lead to conception (in reality, experts agree that while chronic stress might decrease fertility, the …