How To Swim And Write
Do as much as you can. Do shit that other people would consider “weird” or “dumb” like getting a cheap weave, disguising your gender, changing jobs frequently, getting fired, traveling through the Sahel by yourself on a motorbike, drinking in the morning, growing your nails two inches long, majoring in mortuary science, and/or taking the last bus of the day to the end of the line in the suburbs with no way to get back home.
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Kat’s various jobs have included: newspapergirl, barista, waitress, line cook, prep cook, banquet cook, data ... 
I Miss Having Facebook To Myself
At the same time, however, it’s the reason I don’t talk much anymore. Each status I make is one I make with a certain amount of thought. No names are ever shared, no details ever too vivid. Passive-aggressive statements have been retired to the shelf along with goth make-up.
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Cassandra Khaw is an editor for the Indiegames Blog and an avid supporter of the street dance culture. Her work has ... 
Ten Ridiculous Lines From Cover Letters I Wrote
While my days as an angst-ridden, jobless youth are long gone, the emails I sent during that time are still alive and well in the depths of my outbox. There is nothing quite as painful as finding evidence of what a tool you were when applying for jobs as a recent college graduate. Here are ten examples of why it took me six months to get hired.
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Steph is a former editor at Thought Catalog and a current writer at Gawker Media. Her work has been featured on ... 
Review Of: Disney Films
The list of Disney heroines that I’d really like to have hot sex with goes something like this: (1) Belle from Beauty and the Beast. (2) Princess Jasmine from Aladdin. (3) …An-nnd that’s about it, I guess.
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Oliver has a MFA in fiction from a very expensive college, but has never published any fiction. He has written for ... 
Your Handy Chart of Drug Stereotypes
Among the amazing tidbits of information: Meth heads will always S your D whereas stoners never like to do it, Punky Brewster is the poster child for Ecstasy and cocaine users like to wear Ed Hardy!
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