Written on April 26, 2011 at 2:26 pm, by Carlin Adelson
It became very clear to me this afternoon that I am out of shape. Not in the exercise sense (you’ve heard about that one enough, I’m a Cult member): in the normal every day life sense. After a tumultuous winter, graduate school rejections, many, many months off of playing the field, and an existential debateContinue Reading
Written on April 21, 2011 at 1:40 pm, by Carlin Adelson
Here’s something you didn’t know about me: I have an off the charts memory. Literally, off the charts. I took a practice WAIS last year as a favor to my PhD student roommate, who started giggling in the middle of my exam, as I recited back an absurd quantity of letters and numbers she’d givenContinue Reading
Written on April 16, 2011 at 7:07 pm, by Carlin Adelson
I want you to answer this question honestly for yourself: how often do you look at yourself naked? Before getting into the shower? Side profiles as you put on a shirt? With a hand mirror, your back side facing the full length mirror to analyze the slight curve in your spine and your love handle-to-buttContinue Reading
Written on April 16, 2011 at 2:38 pm, by Carlin Adelson
1. Read in bed 2. Talk about how much you want to go to the McQueen exhibit at the Met or see some badass gigantic dinosaurs. 3. Don’t do these things because you are eating cereal and spilling coffee all over your white comforter. 4. Do “work” from bed 5. Take out the recycling wearingContinue Reading
Written on April 13, 2011 at 2:14 am, by Carlin Adelson
I went through a lot of “phases” as a kid. When I was four, I took ballet for a week, then I quit, intimidated by the logistics of a plie. Around seven, fully enchanted by The Mighty Ducks, I had a hockey stick, an Eric Lindros jersey (always and forever my favorite Flyer), a mouthContinue Reading
Written on April 11, 2011 at 3:48 am, by Carlin Adelson
For the past five years now, I have tried, desperately, to avoid being the cliche that I already know that I am by refraining from using in a public forum the three words you have heard nearly every neurotic Jewish girl from the East coast currently living in New York City utter either in movies,Continue Reading
Written on April 9, 2011 at 2:24 pm, by Carlin Adelson
This is a long post: I was gone for awhile. A lot happened. Take your time; I sure did. I just had the luxury of a week away. A week away from the cold, a week off of any drama I willingly enable, a week without the advantages and disadvantages of my parents being anContinue Reading
