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2017 Goal Recap: Get a Raise/Find a New Job, Create Consistently, & Help Others re: Resumes, Cover Letters, Personal Statements
If you're reading this, it's too late (sorry, I couldn't resist finishing the sentence like that even though it's 400% irrelevant). Ok, but seriously, if you're reading this, you've either been redirected from my Modern Love post, or you just found this because of the very enticing title — and by enticing, I mean the run-on…
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Over Thinking 007: Feeling SINGLE AF, Going Through Your S.O.’s Phone, & Seeking Help
If you're still not familiar with the Over Thinking series, click here to familiarize yourself. Old blog, who dis? Ok but in all honesty, I apologize deeply; I quit my job and started a new one, I have been trying to vlog once a week and create some video content here and there, and I'm just tired. Like all…
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Over Thinking 005: Emptiness and Comfort, Wanting More Friends, & Self-Reliance
If you're still not familiar with the Over Thinking series, click here to familiarize yourself. This month had a surprisingly interesting theme — surprising because so many of you had such diverse yet similar thoughts on the topic of friendship. Friendship is a concept that evolves in such a peculiar way: When we're young, we're told to be nice…
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Over Thinking 003: Dating Older Guys, “He Sucks At Texting,” & Writing Careers
If you're still not familiar with the Over Thinking series, click here to familiarize yourself. You guys are really going in with these anonymous thoughts, questions, and concerns, and I'm so so so humbled each time I get a notification for a new contribution. Keep them coming, for I hope that the anonymous comment box can act as a wall…
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CON-fidance
After opening up my anonymous ask box last month, I noticed that I was getting quite a few submissions on my confidence, as well as requests for tips on being confident. At first, I responded to one in a light hearted but totally sincere manner: Whoa, is this like inception because I screenshot my own post?…
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Ghost Buster.
A friend, let’s call her Nina, told me that she had recently been hanging out with a guy that she had been acquaintances with for the past few years. Things were going great, the chemistry was there, and she was really going with the flow — yay! A few dates in, Nina was pretty pleased…
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For the Fallen Palm Springs Police Officers
The sun shone in my eyes after noon last Saturday, and as any person in my generation does, I checked my texts. I clicked into the article; it had only been started 23 minutes prior. There was a shooting in Palm Springs, and two officers had been killed, one injured. The Desert Regional Medical Center…
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Cheat Codes (Of Conduct In A Relationship)
As I was scrolling through a million pics of KarJenner look-alikes on Tumblr one evening, I decided to sift through my drafts — these posts were most likely created at 3am on my bed in my college apartment, as I questioned my life, but most importantly, asked myself constantly, “Y DON’T BOYZ LYKE ME?” Then, I found this:…
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Nature vs. Keeping it in Your Pants
The radio stations in LA love to discuss relevant topics attributed to our lives as young 20 something year olds who are just trying to be Snapchat famous (follow me @ KIKIII). A topic they constantly converse over is cheating in a relationship, aka my favorite topic EVER. One day, they were discussing whose fault…
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Small Talk 002: Motivation
An entry in my journal on May 17th, 2016: "I'll keep this as succinct as possible, but lately, I've been very unmotivated. Tasks that I should be able to complete effortlessly are put off until 'tomorrow' — 'tomorrow' defined as a black hole in time I use as a definitive excuse. Tasks that require a…
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