Finance Associate, Writer, and Edacious Traveler
There's no denying earth was a rough place to live this year. We've seen the ever-frightening rise of Trump. Brexit. Horrific and all-too-regular bad news reports from nearly every continent. The countless negative memes. Celebrities gone too soon. Sad friends. Really tough circumstances. I haven't been immune. If you've been reading my posts, you know that halfway …
Continue reading Looking back at ’16: It wasn’t totally terrible…really!
Brussels: Brussels was on my must-visit list. I never made it to Belgium in college and knew I had limited time left in Europe, so I checked the budget airlines and scored super cheap tickets. Before leaving for the country, I posted calls for beer buddies on Yelp plus my international beer drinkers Facebook group. No one …
High school: I'm terribly shy and awkward. I have close friends but not many acquaintances. Most of my free time is spent in online game rooms or on AIM. I'm also an avid Xanga contributor and will eventually accrue 11 years of almost daily, extremely thorough postings before the website shuts down. I'm staunchly pro-life …
Continue reading If you know me only from ________, you probably think…
[Warning: This is a long post. Feel free to skim.] It's no secret I dislike doing things on my own. While I enjoy some time hanging with myself, I also get bored and restless easily. Too easily. And sometimes that makes me reluctant to push myself outside of my tightly-knit comfort blanket. This can include an …
I planned a short trip to Vienna last week for two key reasons: It was close. Only four hours by budget bus. Fifteen euros each way! Yelp was having a Halloween party. As it turned out, Vienna stunned and trapped me. I'm not sure I've ever visited a friendlier city. I'm not exaggerating when I say …
