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  1. Someone's back from Ibiza!

    • Lena Chen: HI HOW ARE YOU!!!! HELLLOOOOO. I AM TYPING IN CAPS TO EXPRESS MY EXCITEMENT AT SEEING YOU ONLINE.
    • Zac: HIII IM GOOD! HOW ARE YOU? I RECIPROCATE!
    • Lena Chen: i am in california! YAYYYY
    • Zac: i am in jersey! BOOOO
    • Lena Chen: NOT YAYYYYY
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  2. Overshare Thursdays

    I am getting my period because I missed a pill. Crap. For the past two days, I thought my cramps were hunger pangs. WRONG.
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  3. This is the part where I look for a "patron".

    • Gracye: we're on! i know a cute cafe on newbury street. also, stephanie's and then shopping?
    • Me: WITH WHAT INCOME???
    • Gracye: Lena, you are an aspiring starving author. Aren't you supposed to live beyond your means?
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  4. Group photo from the Southeast Asia trip (taken in Hue, Vietnam). Six of us, four countries, 16 days. I can’t wait to see the photos off of Patrick’s and his sister’s Leicas.
    Group photo from the Southeast Asia trip (taken in Hue, Vietnam). Six of us, four countries, 16 days. I can’t wait to see the photos off of Patrick’s and his sister’s Leicas.
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  5. Because one can only post so many angry letters per day. Also, YAY I HAVE A HOME!

    Dear Sexual Partner,

    Thanks for going apartment viewing for me! That was kind and unnecessary, and I will dogsit eagerly and often in gratitude (and because Hamlet will now have a pal for company). I miss you and look forward to touching you inappropriately the second you pick me up at the airport next week. At 5am. Have I mentioned how much I love you?

    P.S. I’m sure you’re thrilled that I now have my own place to trash.

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  6. Dear Westin Grand at Washington D.C.

    Why has it taken three representatives and multiple return calls to make ONE booking that isn’t even on the weekend I originally requested? Why have you completely forgotten to make a note of the free breakfast included with my visit? And how did my three-night stay suddenly turn into a two-night stay on my supposedly final itinerary? WHY WON’T YOU RETURN MY CALLS?? You are incompetent, and if I didn’t have a gift certificate for a free visit, I would say “Fuck it” to your hotel after all the hassle you’ve put me through. FAIL.

    [Christine, Daniel, and all else: expect less enraged, more fabulous me in D.C. from October 10th to 13th.]

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  7. Dear Internet Haters

    When you leave persistent comments telling me to “watch where [I] walk” and saying that you’re going to send someone to “find” me, that’s harassment and it’s illegal. You should probably … I don’t know, stop?

    It highly irritates me when I have a troll who is CLEARLY male and CLEARLY has no conception of how disturbing physical threats are to women. I don’t care if you call me a big slut or even insult my family, but c’mon, this is just being an asshole. Can ya chill out for a second, take a look at yourself, and actually think about what you’re writing? Who does this stuff?

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  8. "If it weren’t for Patrick, I have NO IDEA how I’d get around Boston. Or move, for that matter. Or … live. I think maybe before we dated, I just stayed within a comfortable, walkable 2-sq mile area. This is entirely possible."
    —Me, explaining my incredibly inconvenient lack of driving ability. Along with swimming skills, this is something I am determined to acquire within the year!
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  9. American Firsts

    So despite owning an obscene number of shoes (34 pairs last time I counted) and despite 70% of these shoes being heels, I managed to pack only three pairs for summer and all of them were flats. Today I put on heels for the first time in MONTHS, and it was … precarious. Going to take some getting used to for sure. I better deal quick since I pretty much don’t have any other kind of footwear in Boston.
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  10. "You cannot be a feminist and oppose a woman’s right to choose.You can be a feminist and be uncomfortable with the notion of abortion. You can be a feminist and communicate that discomfort to third parties. You can be a feminist and choose never to have an abortion yourself. You can be a feminist and support greater rights and opportunities for young mothers everywhere so that fewer women will have to choose between pregnancy and their career. You can do all of these things and be a feminist. What you cannot do is stand in the way of any other woman’s moral and political right to reproductive self-determination."
    —Penny Red (via gauntlet)

    As a woman who is a feminist and pro-choice, but who would most likely not choose to have an abortion herself, this statement makes a lot of sense to me.
    (via amandine) (via sarahchristine) (via snickerdoodle)