So, Where Ya From?

Searching for a job during the pandemic has been rough to say the least. It's a constant sending of resumes into the void and slowly losing any shred of hope you may still be holding on to that you get a response. Not even a response for an interview but just a response. Even if it is a rejection, it's at least something - rather than just twiddling your thumbs and hoping that even though its been a month, two months, three months... that someone is just taking a long time with the hiring process, instead of simply not spending the time of day to ease the mind of an applicant. Yea the argument can me that time is money and taking even 30 seconds to send a form rejection email is time someone just doesn't have but I think that is a whole heaping load of bullshit.  Now not every company or firm falls in this category. Some do in fact send out a form email to say they went in a different direction or another candidate more accurately fit their needs. But those companies and fi...

There’s a quote in the show One Tree Hill:   Tree Hill is a place somewhere in the world. Maybe it’s a lot like your world, maybe it’s nothing like it. But if you look closer, you might see someone like you.   The full quote, from a Lucas Scott voiceover, is much longer, but that is the part that stood out to me. Tree Hill is a fictitious town on a television show, filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina. But, the characters resonate with the audience watching in many different ways. And, if the audience is like me, it resonates differently at the different stages of life we are experiencing when it is re-watched.   When I first watched One Tree Hill, when it premiered, I was in middle school. When the series finale aired, I was about to finish my sophomore year of college. I grew up with the show, but not really. After the characters graduated high school, the show does a time jump to their world after the four years of college. So, when I was in high school and college, th...

I don't have a big platform. But, I started this blog as a place to put my thoughts down and I think it would be disingenuous for me to not express my thoughts and opinions over what is happening in this country. It took me a bit to actually write down what I was thinking and feeling but I was on the phone with a friend of mine and I said: "I am a white person. I am a Jewish person. I make a conscious choice to not wear a Star of David because of my own personal unease of anti-Semitic assholes. But I am white, so, I can, to my best of my ability, hide my Jewishness. I cannot even begin to imagine what it is like to be a black person or other person of color, who unlike me, does not have the option to hide that they are who they are, and to have to live with fear, pain, and hopelessness every day." I know I will never be able to put myself in their shoes. I will never understand what it is like to be black. But what I do know is that I am angry, outraged, and hurt for thos...

I took my phone out of its case so I could clean the case and my god do I love a naked iPhone. I just don't want to put it back in the case. I know I probably should put it back in the case so I don't get a cracked screen... but then I remember I once dropped my case-less iPhone down a concrete flight of stairs (like the kind of massive concrete staircases in major sports arenas) and it was like nothing happened. Not a dam scratch on that thing! So for now at least, I'm gonna live on the edge! No case! Knowing full well that I will put the case back on the second I drop my phone on my nose because I don't have a good grip on it without using a popsocket.. and the popsocket is on my case... ✌

It’s really fucking hard to focus when the city you live in decides it’s time to do construction on your street. Constantly there’s buzzing and grinding and loud noises and the other sounds of construction that just never stop. (Ok they do stop but that’s like after 5pm so it doesn’t count.)   Don’t get me wrong, my road needs a good repaving so that it doesn’t feel like I’m going to bottom out my car each and every time I choose to leave my driveway, but to choose to start the construction whilst everyone, except for the construction people who are apparently essential, is stuck inside their homes is just crazy to me.   Like I guess for those constantly on zoom calls there’s a lot of people going “oh sorry about the background noise, they are just digging up the old sidewalk and putting down fresh new concrete.” For me, it’s a, “GAHHHHH I CAN’T FUCKING THINK LET ALONE STUDY FOR THE NYLE RIGHT NOW!!” And since I live alone, I am either talking to myself or to the houseplants I...

“We want to grow the game and expand to new markets.”   This is a simple sentiment shared between two major professional sports leagues in the US: Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League. Another common thread between these leagues is not allowing their respective athletes play for their home countries in the Olympics. Completely putting aside the monetary implications of a mid-season two-week shutdown, not allowing their athletes to play on truly the world stage is the exact opposite of trying to grow the game and expanding to new markets.   Let’s rewind all the way back to 1986 for a minute. The International Olympic Committee had eased already eased up on “amateurism” and pulled the trigger on allowing true professional athletes to compete in the Olympics. This decision paved the way for Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, and the rest of The Dream Team to compete in the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona. Yes, at the time Michael Jordan was...

Hi. I’m here to talk about double standards but not in the way you probably think I am. I was on the phone with my mom earlier this week and she brought up Hoda Kotb and Savannah Guthrie (of the Today Show) and how they made some comments about Matthew McConaughey. She said to me, “can you imagine if that was a male anchor saying that about a woman? He would get fired!” My response was something cheeky about the double standard that exists and we moved on in the conversation. But I’m right. There IS a double standard in situations like that. The double standard exists that allows for women to talk about McConaghey and the Hemsworths and objectify the shit out of them but nothing really happens and no one really says anything because the original comment(s) are made by women.   Also, think about this. This week, Adele revealed a photo of herself that showed her trimmed and toned body. The internet went berserk! We saw all sides of the spectrum from people championing her journey to ...