Buying It
That Sunday morning regularly brings trend piece-induced nausea is more a sign that I need to expand my sources. Because the new season of Girls premieres tonight, a reference has been woven into every article […]
Author: Krista
Vintage
This is 40: overpaying to live in a building you partied in during your 20s. '90s warehouse lofts turned 2013 luxury apartments, complete with branded tote bag and floorplan-containing blueprint tube. Did I mention that […]
Freak in the Sheets
When I was making very big life decisions last week about whether to buy new physical books to make my shelves more contemporary and self-representative and worldly, stay streamlined and to myself with Kindle downloads […]
Baby Steps
Having a gym for $21.67 a month is a bargain ($260 up front annually) but slightly less so when it's on a college campus that closes between Christmas Eve and the new year, randomly for […]
A Gamble
I think something major might happen by the new year. Because this is how I live my life, I'm not sure if it will be bad major or good major. Even though I'm back to […]
Purple Prose
The latest in my quest to make my hair fall out by 2013 involves a Goldwell semi-permanent dye, Violet Ash, which ended up being neither ashy, nor violet with its advertised blue tones, but a […]
Artifact #3
"Do you want a new photo?" asked the I.D.-making lady. "Yes, that one's old," the art student getting a replacement card said. I almost snickered while waiting for my Pratt gym access card to print […]
The Middle Ages: 41.7
It turns out based on brand new statistics that my life expectancy is actually 83.3 because I live in NYC, three years more than the national average (does this only work if you continue to […]
Frozen in Time
So many non-problems. My bookshelf is a snapshot of the '90s because I used to buy books, mostly used, in the '90s, and quite often. And now when I read books, occasionally, I either use […]
Television Personalities
I only now discovered the luxury of having a TV in the bedroom. With the exception of three studio apartments with no proper bedrooms, I’ve never had the TV while lounging experience. The fancy-seven-years-ago flat […]