This evening I hauled two big bags of worn literature down Damen to sell at Myopic Books, the mega used books store and Kaaba of the Hipster Mecca that is the 6 Corners of Wicker Park. I got two major things out of the experience:
a) $35 for the books they wanted, which I greatly appreciated
b) [...]
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The Changing Identity of Mari, or “Why She Thinks She’s Better Than Hipsters,” or “Why She Wishes She Were Latina”
Posted in Chicago, growing up, hipsters on April 18, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Five Letters Received on Friday
Posted in growing up, letter-writing, relationships, things that make me sad on January 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
1. “For instance, if you come at four in the afternoon, I’ll begin to be happy by three.”
2. “I’m having fun eating lots of maple syrup and looking for moose sightings.”
3. “In approaching the end of college, many of us will be guided by the abstracted future more than by a rootedness in the past.”
4. [...]
Being 21 is a difficult thing
Posted in God, growing up, relationships, things that make me sad on December 20, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Growing up is very hard. Whenever I realize I’m not as kind, patient, or perpetually grateful as I hope to be, via an argument or fit of immature rage due to some tiny upset to my day, I feel brutally betrayed by my own idealization of myself. I wonder if the person I’m becoming is [...]
