http://www.irisindependent.com Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:18:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In 52 Books- style, I've started a book club with myself, which I have lovingly dubbed "The Half-Assed Version of 52 Books." Instead of reading a book a week, I'll be reading a book every two weeks. It started on my 29th birthday and shall last until my 30th. I ... http://www.irisindependent.com/?p=2057 I need 'em. Pretty please comment below with a great book you've read recently. http://www.irisindependent.com/?p=2056 I'm all about the personal challenges as of late. If that makes me a super-annoying woman who is clearly close to 30, then so be it. So, we've already talked about my rest-of-the-year challenge: 3 concert tickets on my fridge at all times. I've been wildly successful so far. On the ... http://www.irisindependent.com/?p=2047 Jenn is one of my newer friends here. Okay, so we're not friends yet. I'm in the process of courting her because I really, really want her to be my friend. While my New Year's Resolutions were many, generic, and mostly unattainable, Jenn's New Year's Resolution was to go to a concert ... http://www.irisindependent.com/?p=2034 I've lived in New York for nine months and I can finally say that I feel settled. I'd characterize my first two months as taxing, but calm. I didn't know many people, so I came home everyday after work. And I had already given myself a disorientation allowance, so it felt ... http://www.irisindependent.com/?p=2023 "I wrote a good omelet...and ate a hot poem... after loving you Buttoned my car...and drove my coat home...in the rain... after loving you I goed on red...and stopped on green....floating somewhere in between... being here and being there... after loving you I rolled my bed...turned down my hair...slightly confused but...I don't care... Laid out my teeth...and gargled my gown...then I ... http://www.irisindependent.com/?p=2021 I'll be 29 in  a few (solid) months and it's time to make the generic "Before 30" list. I'm disgusted with myself. However. It is a good way to get shit done. And I respond really, really well to lists and directions. It's also late, I'm tired, and I really just wanted to ... http://www.irisindependent.com/?p=2018 This struck me: "Once upon a time, Aristophanes relates, there were gods in the heavens and humans down on earth. But we humans did not look the way we look today. Instead, we each had two heads and four legs and four arms - a perfect melding, in other words, of ... http://www.irisindependent.com/?p=2013 1. Today, my work friendys and I are flyering the neighborhood in which our school resides. I'm super excited to go into the buildings of our students all voyeuristic-like. Oh, yeah. And to spread the good word about our school. That too. The stories (and sounds) that come out of the ... http://www.irisindependent.com/?p=1999 So. Friend Ann and I were venting about the douchebaggery happening with the men around us as of late. They are stories of no consequence because we knew these weren't guys with whom we'd actually want to spend a significant amount of time. This conversation led to a bigger question: Who do ... http://www.irisindependent.com/?p=2000