[This is Part Two of The Safa Boy Series: click for Introduction and Part One] I hallucinate my phone is vibrating. It’s in my pocket, I feel it twitching against my leg. The nerves in my leg are lying to me. My phone is stone cold, silent, unmoving. It’s driving me crazy. It’s making me want to eat [...]
Archive for February, 2011
No Knowing Where It’s Going
Posted in You have to kiss a lot of frogs: Dating, tagged Safa Boy on February 22, 2011 | 9 Comments »
Models: Beauty on the Outside, Bitchy on the Inside
Posted in Bringing home the bacon: Day Jobs, I <3 NY, tagged bitches, fashion, fashion week, models, NYFW, Project Runway, promotions on February 18, 2011 | 26 Comments »
I stared at the email in horror. This was not what I signed up for. Who would voluntarily subject themselves to such torture for the price of $30/hr? I got the job off craigslist, I should have known there was something they weren’t telling me. I looked at the e-mail again, hoping I’d miss-read. YOUR [...]
The Best Valentine’s Day of the Millennium
Posted in Cause célèbre: Holidays & Celebrations, Single and Fabulous Exclamation Point, Walk down memory lane, tagged jealousy, middle school, single, Valentine's Day on February 16, 2011 | 24 Comments »
My locker was the place to be in middle school. Giggling groups of girls gathered there (I coudn’t resist the alliteration), while boys played it cool, casually leaning against the wall, hiding surging hormones and the accompanying acne behind baggy pants and Nick Carter bangs. None of it had anything to do with me. The [...]
Fashion Week in My Backyard
Posted in Bringing home the bacon: Day Jobs, I <3 NY, tagged circus, Dickies, fashion, lincoln center, maybelline, NYFW, promotions, Women's Wear Daily, WWD on February 14, 2011 | 1 Comment »
They walk around teetering on stilts. Faces painted with a layer of elaborate make up. Their garb dazzling with sequins, metallic, or jewels that will twinkle under the bright lights. Those who are furry, fur is in this season, look ready to jump through hoops. A car pulls up and an awkwardly proportioned, wacky dressed [...]
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