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Tag: Humor

  • Fifty First Dates

    Fifty First Dates

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    Raina B.
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    Please don’t confuse this post with the cute romantic comedy by the same name starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore. This is nothing like that. Based on my recent experience, there is very little that is cute or romantic about modern dating. At best, there’s comedy. At it’s worst, it reinforces the fear that all…

  • Get In the Holiday Spirit, Dammit.

    Get In the Holiday Spirit, Dammit.

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    Raina B.
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    Anyone who comes from a complicated family and/or has been single during the holidays knows how tempting it is to throw a raging month-long pity party (Read: Get drunk and cry, repeat until after New Year’s Day, and then swear that this year is going to be totally different). Or hey, maybe it’s just me.…

  • A Family Affair

    A Family Affair

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    Raina B.
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    I will echo the same sentiment everyone else has 1,000 times already; I can’t believe it’s Thanksgiving already. I feel like it was only a couple of weeks ago that I was bitching about being so sweaty all the live long day. But yet, here we are. Just days away from me-wrestling-with-Christmas-trees season (wait for…

  • The Beginning of the End: Part III

    The Beginning of the End: Part III

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    Raina B.
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    “Coffee? I could drink some coffee.” Now, I’m not super thrilled to admit this part: I got in his car. I wish I could tell you what I was thinking, but clearly, I wasn’t. I wasn’t sober. Not drunk by this point, but obviously not on top of my game. I think I was lulled…

  • The Beginning of the End: Part II

    The Beginning of the End: Part II

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    Raina B.
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    So, where were we? Ah yes. I was on a date, in a bar, with a gentleman who had recently tried to give up drinking. And I have a hardcore brunch buzz. Right. This is my life, Ladies and Gentleman, and at that moment, I wasn’t loving it. Less than ten minutes in, I already…

  • The Beginning of the End: Part I

    The Beginning of the End: Part I

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    Raina B.
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    The date that made me quit dating…the first time. Because to be clear, I eventually tried online dating (and quit trying online dating) a second time, but only because my therapist told me to. It was a long, weird afternoon spent in the company of a stranger who said THE strangest things. An afternoon that…

  • A Walk to Remember

    A Walk to Remember

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    Raina B.
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    I was raised on America’s Most Wanted and Law & Order. So I approach all life situations carefully considering the odds of my getting kidnapped, raped, and/or murdered to an arguably (and admittedly) irrational degree. I don’t mind telling you that I am scared of the country. Even the suburbs creep me out a little…

  • Summer in the City

    Summer in the City

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    Raina B.
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    I love summer and all that it stands for, in theory.  I love the spirit of summer, the break from school, the freedom that comes with warmer weather, being outside.  The sun, the fun.  All good stuff.  It’s the practicality and reality of summer that bums me out.  That from May to mid-September, I’m just…

  • I Can Fit My Whole Foot in My Mouth

    I Can Fit My Whole Foot in My Mouth

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    Deirdre B.
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    When you think of sexual harassment, what comes to mind? Clarence Thomas? That episode of Quantum Leap where Sam was Dr. Ruth and ran into Anita Hill? Mad Men? That episode of Quantum Leap that was kind of like Mad Men? Maybe a Lifetime original movie about some young woman overcoming adversity to one day…

  • I’m Sorry…WHAT?

    I’m Sorry…WHAT?

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    Raina B.
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    While we are on the subject of online dating, I have a few more things to say. We spent so much time talking about the dos and don’ts of profile pictures last time, I feel like I’d be remiss if I didn’t address the subject of online dating communications. What to say to that potential…