July 30, 2008
- 1:00 pm
By Jess - NYU
Tags: airline tickets, ashton kutcher, big brother, CBS, dating, dunkin donuts, healthy, hollywood, homewrecker, Justin Timberlake, Obesity, relating, remakes, ryan gosling, self deprecating humor, sequels, sexual responsibility, star magazine, triathalon, triathlons
September 19, 2007
- 11:54 am
By Jess - NYU
After-hook-up relations are not always easy.
Seeing someone you made out or slept with a few days after the fact can be weird, uncomfortable, and even painful. It can also be awkward with a capital A.
If the experience was extremely unmemorable (or horrible…because that sometimes usually happens), we may even resort to running and hiding behind trees whenever we spy a recent bedfellow (not that I ever did that. I preferred to hide behind bushes. More coverage.).
On small college campuses, avoiding people can become difficult, and many of us probably wish at the very least that we could relate to our hook-ups the way we did before everything went down.
Well, we can!
A few years ago, after hooking-up with and subsequently getting seriously pissed off at a guy when I realized he had a girlfriend, I thought our friendship was over. But I still had to see him every day. So what was I going to do? Read More »
Tags: alcohol, angry, awkward, class, college, dating, drunk, friendly, friendship, girlfriend, hiding, hook up, hooking up, just friends, keg, making out, one night stand, relating, Sex
September 11, 2007
- 9:59 am
By Jess - NYU
“Hey baby, what’s your sign?”
I’ve never had to deal with that line in a bar, but I have had a guy try to deconstruct me on a first date based on my birthday. He thought he was being cute. I thought he’d be cuter with a bag over his head.
Lame, unfunny idiot using it as a come on or not, there’s definitely something to Astrology. Defining people by a little symbol and its characteristics are fun—especially if you get to define them in the bitchiest way possible.
How to Spot a Bastard by His Star Sign makes no qualms about the fact that it’s a book based on the idea that all men are bastards—be they crab, bull, or scorpion.
“Why is Capricorn so boring?” it asks on the title page. “What makes Libra think he’s so perfect? And who on earth would want to mate with an Aires?”
“Fire Sign Bastards are always better than you and will never hesitate to tell you so,” starts the first chapter of this little retro bamphlet (book/pamphlet). “They’ll then hammer the fact home by telling you again—just incase you didn’t hear them the first time.” Read More »
Tags: aries, astrological signs, astrology, bastard, book, capricorn, dating, fire sign, libra, men, relating, sign, whats your sign
September 7, 2007
- 11:49 am
By ccandygrace

Days as a Freshman: 17
Current Mood: Tired
“So she just said she was a lesbian? Right there?” Crystal sliced a piece of tofu up and shoved it into her mouth. “Stacey must have flipped her shit.”
“I’ve never seen her that silent for that long.” I tried to keep my eyes off the white, shimmying blobs on Crystal’s plate and took a bite of my own dinner. Crystal was fantastic, but her vegan diet was often cringe-worthy.
One of the first friends I had made at school besides my roommates, Crystal and I met in Statistics when she leaned over and asked if I had a calculator. I told her no, and that I hadn’t understood a damn thing the teacher had said for the last hour.
She vigorously agreed, asked me if I wanted a piece of gum, and a friendship was born. Read More »
Tags: college, couple, freshman, freshmen, hippy, lesbian, relating, relationship, soccer, sophomore, Statistics, tofu, vegan