Alana Post

can i feel you getting fatter?

Oh man where to begin!

williamsboard! even though some of my friends already know you! how embarrassing!

She can picks up languages the way most people pick up catch-phrases, she gives amazing advice (my go-to source for perfume/linguistics/skincare… diverse, right?), and there’s a picture of her kissing a parrot that is the sweetest thing that has ever existed.

She has the best smile on earth, she collects facts and info like it’s nothing at all, she has great taste, she’s left-handed, and her hair is always cute.

This year was largely horrible. My move to New York, which helped me socially and (perhaps) intellectually, has been a series of extended financial disasters, usually combined with naive and ill-fated roommate attempts. I was hospitalized, broken up with, and had my bank account emptied via ATM HACKERS. I moved 3 times in 4 months and lost almost everything I owned either by not having the time or money to adequately plan to move everything, or by making “deals” that didn’t “pan out”.

I only wish that there was some way on here to track how many terrible decisions I’ve made, cross-referenced with shit life has generously slung onto my plate. I would say 2005 was something rather far shy of 93% worth living, and might have been around 43% instead.

PROS for 2005:

• ILU NYC
• Lots of very worthwhile friends
• Still have my cat
• Making connections
• Got a decent full-time job
• Fixing my credit
• Stable relationship with family
• Seemingly limitless help from friends
• Regained my ability to read

CONS for 2005:

• Finances
• “Intimate relationships”
• Several heavy hits on the assertiveness front
• Finances
• Finances
• General feeling of “one step forward, two steps back” to everything

One time Tom stayed with me when I had my loft in Williamsburg and all I had for us to eat was this hippie mash that I’d bought from the health food store. We ate it for days… this is when I learned that Tom is not a complainer!