Sex Talks

When I hear that someone is in a long distance relationship, I assume that distance is from, say, LA to New York or Chicago to DC or Austin, Texas to Sydney, Australia (I actually "knew someone who"). I do not assume that distance is from, say, Silver Lake to Santa Monica or the Upper East Side to Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn or Clarendon, Virginia to downtown D.C. Those are not - in a traditional sense - long distances. But they're also not short distances. Silver Lake and Santa Monica are both LA neighborhoods, but you can rarely make it to one from the other in less than an hour, and that one hour because two in rush hour traffic on the 10. If you forget some crucial work document you need for tomorrow en route to spending the night at your boyfriend's UES apartment, you're looking at 45 minutes on the subway back to Carroll Gardens. I have never lived in D.C. so you folk from there will have to make up your own example that applies, but you get the picture. Dista...

Last Sunday afternoon I went to pop a DVD into the DVD player so I could start my first guitar lesson (they come on DVD's now!!!), and I realized that I don't know how to use my own DVD player. I have lived with R for exactly six months this weekend, and it only dawned upon me this Sunday that I don't know how to play a DVD in the apartment we now share. In my defense, it's not my DVD player; R had it before I moved in. In defense of being a 29-year-old human, I should know how to use the machine that plays the movies (and guitar lessons!!!) in my own house. Naturally this little issue made me start to think about all the other pieces of knowledge I've relinquished since entering a life of cohabitation. And by "think about" I mean dwell on. See, I'm a recovering control freak who can't stand the idea of not knowing how to do everything herself. I now live with a loving man who has homemaking slash life skills that I simply do not possess (i.e. he ...

Check out the final segment from my HuffPost Live appearance last night. Great conversation with the show hosts and guests. See below for links to those folks so you can check out their work on the topic. CLICK TO WATCH.   Mark Babbitt - CEO & Founder, YouTern - Here's Mark's article on how his generation could use the help of some Millennials.   Jean Twenge - Author - Jean's book GENERATION ME takes a look at the stats behind this generation's actions and reactions.  Seth Mattison - Generation's Expert - Seth runs a consulting firm that helps connect generations through best practices and work relationship development. He's also a frequent speaker on the circuit covering this topic.  James Harrell - Grad Student - James is a grad student at Harvard dealing with the generational issues first-hand. Have great weekends everyone!

NEWS ALERT:  The HuffingtonPost has a new, live news platform called HuffPost Live Tonight they're covering the hot-button topic of whether or not Millennials are lazy and entitled (aka the "news" story that will never die) They've invited me to be a guest pundit! All I have to do is sit at my Mac and try to look as normal as possible while sitting five inches from a computer screen and awkwardly wearing head phones.  Y ou can participate too! Just log onto HuffPost Live at 9:40 EST/ 6:40 PST and post a text or video comment using the seemingly user-friendly thingy on the right hand side of the screen. I've been thinking about this topic non-stop since the HuffPo producers reached out, and here are a few things I've concluded: We're not lazy, we're just not interested in being underemployed at a job we don't want anyway.    I want to be a writer. I can work at a magazine as an assistant to an editor in Manhattan for 28K per year, 60 hours a wee...

I'm insanely jealous of fantasy football. Every single year groups of mostly male friends come together around the competition that is fake football on the Internet. Well, I guess it's more like fake real football? Or maybe it's more logical to think of it as real fake football? Whatever it is, there's a freaking TV show about it , on real TV, which makes it cooler than it's every been. R - as one example - is engaged in what seems like 15 games, which I believe are termed "leagues." He has his high school friends, his college friends, his LA friends, his work friends, and then these things called "Suicide Pools" that seem really intense and stressful, but everyone seems to love the most.  I believe he is the "commissioner" of one of his leagues, which seems important even though I don't have a clue what it entails. From what I gather, Fantasy Football is the most fun thing in the entire world...for people with a familiarity of ever...