As part of Citizen of the Month’s Great Interview Experiment, I sent Jen twenty questions for her to ponder with the idea that she would be able to pick and choose if any of them were not to her liking. Jen went all overachiever on me and answered all twenty! Very impressive.
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I just joined 20-Something Bloggers last week, and I feel overwhelmed already. Sending out a barrage of friend requests made me feel like a teeny-bopper on MySpace (or how I imagine that would feel), and I quiver in fear at the idea of message boards, groups, and discussions. Is there a user manual? I think I may be in over my head.
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I can hardly believe it, but I am up against Valerie for a chance to go to the Project Runway Fantasy League finals! Depending on this week’s reunion episode, I might be one of two contestants who will vie for some yet-to-be-determined prize by choosing the season winner when the remaining designers reveal collections at Fashion Week. I am floored. I would have been satisfied to be in second-to-last place the whole way through, but check it out! My obsessive note-taking during the “next time, on Project Runway” segments paid off! If you’re rooting for me, then you want Ricky and Jack to win Fan Favorite, cry buckets of tears, and walk off the set, cursing all the way. Got it? If you’re not rooting for me, well, don’t tell me.
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My subscription to Real Simple is running out, and I am not all that broken up about it. It was a lovely gift for our first anniversary, and occasionally, I dog-ear helpful products or ideas for new uses. However, I am getting tired of product recommendations that are astronomically outside what I perceive to be a reasonable price range. If the best A-line skirt costs $300, I am not interested, people. Even though I prefer books to magazines, I’m considering replacing this subscription for one to The New Yorker. It’s definitely more expensive than Real Simple, but it’s not nearly as much as I had assumed, and I think it would be nice lunchtime reading at work. I hesitate because I don’t know if I could keep up with an issue every week, but then, I won’t always be reading Anna Karenina.
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This semester, we have an intern in the office to help out with spring publications, and today is his first day. I’m sure that he’ll do fine, but I can tell from his stiff posture and awkwardly loud tone of voice that he’s nervous. I’m on the fence as to whether I should tell him that there’s a shiny, plastic Chaps sticker on the back of his collar …
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Thanks for sending me such stellar questions! I had fun thinking about and answering all of them in three good-sized chunks.
I am rooting for you, but Ricky or Jack as fan fave? I doubt it. Those two were so incredibly annoying. My vote is first for Sweet P, second for Chris. I think Christian will win the whole kit and caboodle.
Lastly, I got Real Simple all of last year, and while I loved looking at its pretty, pretty pages, I also felt like it wasn’t realistic to assume regular people could afford these kinds of things. My subscription ran out, so now I’m content with Food and Wine and Seattle Metropolitan filling my mail box.
I got yelled at for reading a magazine in the grocery store this weekend. The magazine I was reading? Real Simple. I would get a subscription, but it’s so expensive. And I don’t even make it through my Glamour every month. I was going to get the Wedding Issue, but it cost 13 bucks and had an ad for Crate and Barrell on every other page! So that’s why I just read it in the grocery store, dude. Lay off.
I so agree that Real Simple has ridiculously priced things. When I find myself thinking that the $80 dollar pair of shoes is just down-right BARGAIN priced, I know i’ve been reading too long.
I am rooting for you too! Even though I never watch that show.
Tell him about the sticker. Otherwise he’ll be mortified when he gets home. Seriously.
one of my hesitations with the New Yorker is the same, I just don’t think I can keep up with it. I should just succumb to the desire. I get my Real Simple fix via a feed on my homepage. I get a daily recipe and tip from them.
Wow, I am impressed by your mad ProjRun prediction skillz!
Also, Anna Karenina is next on my list of things to read. I am a bit daunted by the prospect to say the least! I’ve read a great deal of unreasonably long classic lit, but the Russian books always confuse me with the names of people and places.
You may remember that I am a New Yorker addict. What I love about it is the variety of topics from week to week. Last week I read a long profile of the guy who just made billions from the IPO of Blackstone (private equity firm in NY). Now, I definitely could care less about some private equity firm guy in general, but I learned a lot in this bio and it kept my attention. Some weeks I devour every article, some weeks I end up skipping a lot of them, but all in all I am exposed to a lot of things. Even art/culture stuff that I don’t get anywhere else.
However, it’s very liberal in it’s political writing, just FYI
I keep going back and forth about joining 20-Something Bloggers…it just seems so intimidating! Let me know how it goes for you!
The New Yorker is awesome–go for it!!
When I saw the title for this post, I though you were saying that lunch hour bites. And I was all, “WTF, RA? Does not.”
Ooooh! I can’t wait until the review of Anna Karenina comes out!!
And ditto on Real Simple… and Domino. Love them and hate them, all at the same time.
xox
Yeah welcome to 20sb FINALLY
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