Happy Birthday to Me: 25 Years
I’m 25 today. Realistically speaking, that means I’ve completed a third of my life, if I’m lucky. They keep telling me that I’m young and I have time, but with 2/3rds left to go, they are wrong.
Lingering Effects of Post-Traumatic Stress from Fluoroquinolone Toxicity
Last night I woke up shivering and sweating. The tips of my fingers were numb. I began to panic and cry and did not understand what was going on. Is this still PTSD?
Hand Sanitizer Only Lasts For 10 Seconds
Once, a couple years ago, I was visiting my parents for some holiday and overheard a strange news story blaring from the television. “Hand sanitizer doesn’t work,” a newscaster claimed. “A new study shows that the effects of hand sanitizer […]
The Confusing Etiquette Behind Taking Photos of Everything in Foreign Places
Where do we draw the line?
I Am the Um-Actually Friend
You ever feel like you work so hard and you’re so tired that when you stop and relax, everything feels like a wave flowing through you and your vision gets a little blurry, everything starts to hurt? That’s me right […]
The Holidays as The Seven Deadly Sins
Holiday Season kinda sucks for me now. It hasn’t really sucked in the past, but now that I’m working during holidays again and I’m still pretty alone, it’s hard to go through. It’s harder still for other people to go […]
How to Do More of What You Want and Less of What Everyone Else Wants
It was 2003 and I was in the middle of puberty, one of the most awkward times of a human life. I had my own deodorant, which I didn’t actually ever need, and applied it every day, staining all of […]
How to Pay Off Your Student Loans
Student loans are notorious for fucking up everyone’s life between the ages of 18 and 35. You’ve bought into some sick lie people told you and now you’re in tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt while still […]
Apparently This Tree-Growing Mushroom Fights Cancer
A bit about my experience with chaga mushrooms