20 things i’ve learned about listening from my court-ordered handbook
A few months ago, two different people told me, in a nice-ish way, that I’m a very reactive person and maybe I should work on this.
I did a mental scroll of issues I’ve had with people in the past decade and realized that—in almost every case—my hot-headedness played a role. (Sorry, all my ex-boyfriends!)
It seems obvious now, but I’d never noticed that, hey, I do have intense reactions to things. (Like rude emails or Sheryl Sandberg’s TedTalk.) And I never thought I could do anything about it.
And this is all a prelude to explain how I discovered a series of articles by a California-based therapist named Lorraine Watson after a google search. Her theory is that being reactive is simply a state of not dealing with emotions (usually anger) in the most skillful way.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that it is 100x better to stand passive aggressively at the dryer than to be the weirdo who removes and anonymously folds somebody else’s clothes. Creep.
On the scale of “just living the good life” to “drinking problem” where does “drunk laundry” fall?
Does anybody want to start a book club? Like, read books and then get together in eachother’s homes and drink wine and talk about the books? I think I’m in a place in my life where this, like, feels right. I’m not unpacking what that means.
This was the first picture that came up when I google image searched book club but you don’t have to be a woman/have an angular haircut to join.
26 Signs You Were A College Radio DJ
Because other college clubs just weren’t alternative enough for you.Oh god. All of this.
(link provided by a good friend who, I met 100 years ago working at my college radio station. I am so happy to be a grown up now).
By the way, #26 is the best and it WILL haunt you for the rest of your life. Even when I worked in commercial radio I never had a fake DJ name, but there are a few people I see every once in a blue moon who I love nothing more than to to greet them years later with their college DJ name.
I am looking at you, “Phantom.”
Hahahahaha.
DJ Plaid.
There. I said it.
Oh wait, both of you guys? DJuMP.
Reblogged for WZLY.
Hello Astorians, friends, and readers everywhere!
After many months of searching, the Astoria Bookshop is thrilled to announce that we finally have the perfect location for our store! We have signed a lease and, while there’s much to do before we can open our doors, we expect to have our Grand Opening sometime in mid-August. We are bursting with excitement to be moving forward at last.
Later this summer, the Astoria Bookshop will be opening its doors at 31-27 31st Street, a half block from the Broadway N/Q stop and right next door to our friends at Petals & Roots. We’ll keep you updated on our progress by periodically posting photos on our website as we knock down walls, paint others, install bookshelves, and unpack box after box of books.
While you’re keeping an eye on astoriabookshop.com for updates, you may notice some other exciting changes. For one, we will be launching e-commerce soon! You’ll be able to purchase print as well as ebooks directly from our website. We are a general bookstore, and the books you choose will help us decide how to stock our shelves with the things you really want to read.
As the Astoria Bookshop gets closer to opening, we’ll start posting events to the calendar on our website. Our goal is to host events for every kind of reader out there — book clubs, writers’ groups, author signings, children’s story hours, tastings of sample recipes from cookbooks, even table readings. To us, events are one of the most important aspects of our business — we’re designing the Astoria Bookshop to be a space for the community to gather and interact.
So, while you wait for our doors to open, we’ll be hard at work putting our store together. We want the Astoria Bookshop to look and feel like Astoria — eclectic, engaging, and full of characters. Keep an eye on our website, follow us on Twitter, like us on Facebook, sign up for our newsletter, and you’ll be among the first to know all the goings on at your new neighborhood bookstore.
Cheers,
Connie & Lexi
Bookstore within walking distance of my apartment. Very bad for budget, very wonderful for quality of life.
When do they start hiring?
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I just dropped the panopticon to explain why my co-worker and I can’t disappear for an hour to go wait in a line to get a free frozen banana so I guess that college degree weren’t for nothing, assholes.
