November 2010
1 post
A list of things he should say about himself.
I’m an artist.
I’m romantic.
I’m in a band. (I can play six instruments and sing.)
I skateboard.
I have symmetrical features.
I’m weird and unique.
I read a ton.
I love movies.
I LOVE sex.
I like to do things outdoors, ie: mountainclimb, hike, camp, fish…
I can ride a horse.
I can build things.
I like fast cars and driving fast.
I can figure out what’s wrong with your car if it...
October 2010
3 posts
Loving Torrents
I recently got a Yogi Tea fortune that said
“When there is Love there is No Question.”
Also, I’ve been watching a lot of Millionaire Matchmaker. Patti Stanger, the intimidating matchmaking queen has helped me realize that I must be wooed! Not necessarily in the old fashioned sense, but make it clear you like me, treat me well, be consistent and it’ll work.
These ideas...
Reflecting
Annik here, I’ve been away for quite a while, but I’m returning (only virtually) to share some thoughts. I’ve been living in a tiny town in the North for the last two months and single life is very unchanging.
Let me explain. I went up here knowing that I was taking a four-month vow of celibacy, and I was alright with it. Relationships run differently here. Hooking up happens,...
September 2010
7 posts
Girls are like apples on trees. The best ones are... →
One. New York Taxi.
I went to NYC this spring for the first time in four years. I hadn’t been there since my senior year in high school. As always it was an amazing trip and the city did not disappoint. I would never consider myself someone who “knows” the city but I have been a handful of times and going back was great. It brought back a flood of memories: my first time alone in the city, my first...
Ideally the objection is to get laid.
Me: I'm glad to be here but like I don't want to have random sex. I also don't need a boyfriend. I need something in the middle.
Adam: That would be wonderful.
Me: Yep agreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed! The ideal situation would be to have sex like three times a week with someone who lives close by. Until I find a boyfriend. However there is no rush on that.
Adam: If only.
Me: It would be ideal though. Think about it. Three times a week, no sleepover necessary BUT not frowned upon either. Have a few drinks or a joint, fuck, sleepover or not and go on with life. If I could have that until I find love, which has to on the horizon sometime, life would be perfect. I'm sure there is a man somewhere who I could be attracted to and who would like this situation. Right?
Adam: Yeah. You'd think so. It sounds ideal.
I'm Off the Grid
This is where i’m spending the next four months, and it turns out that town has something against tumblr. It’s blocked at school and pretty much everywhere except for the slightly damp porch i’m now sitting on. This wifi hot spot won’t be too inviting as it quickly cools down here. So i probably won’t be posting too much. See you in the New Year!
Annik
“You must not let yourself become too respectable. Keep yourself a little wild....”
– The Callender Papers, Cynthia Voigt (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by...”
– The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“I tell you this
to break your heart,
by which I mean only
that it break open...”
– New and Selected Poems, Mary Oliver (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
August 2010
11 posts
“Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare,...”
– Anne of Avonlea, L.M. Montgomery (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“It was like there was an elephant in the room. An elephant that expected us to...”
– Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour, Morgan Matson (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“Love: the sickest of Irony’s sick jokes. The place where logic and order go to...”
– Coyote Blue, Christopher Moore (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“I’m not sure that love and like aren’t like cats and dogs: One can’t grow up to...”
– Silent to the Bone, E.L. Konigsburg (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
– The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays, Oscar Wilde (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
Ibizan Love Burns
A good friend just returned from three months in Ibiza (!!!!) and she has a million stories to tell. I’ve heard bits and pieces of her sexcapades on the Gemini island, but I know there’s more for her to divulge. However, the only thing she wants to talk about is a certain boy from school with whom she’d had a fiery romance a year and a half ago.
Just before leaving for Spain,...
Things Are Made Clear... Sort OfAn
Ok, my thrill-seeking behavior is on the rise. I think it’s a good thing.
Last night when I contacted the below-mentioned person about ‘hanging out’ he let me know that he was going to take it easy for the rest of the night. i.e. We weren’t going to see each other again until January when I return. So the end appeared to be an awesome non-date. I was bummed that I...
Howabout, We Shag Now
I’ve been thinking about a recent post. I claimed that people have fear of expressing sexual interest, and I’m experiencing that phenomenon at the moment.
I was talking to my mom the other day about a curious relationship I have. I’m attracted to this guy who obviously enjoys my company and invites me to hang out all the time. I just don’t know if he’s interested,...
Sugar Daddies- They Actually Exist!?
I was just looking for an apartment……
montreal craigslist > housing > rooms & shares please flag with care: miscategorized prohibited spam/overpost best of craigslist Rent free life for a sugar baby (downtown) Date: 2010-07-19, 5:09PM EDT Reply to: hous-ynntf-1851815448@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?] You live rent free in a nice place downtown and I give...
(Dangerously) High Standards
Saturday night/ Sunday Morning:
Danica and I are walking home from the Chromeo concert and we finally realize that we can’t complain about there being no opportunity in the city. We love to bitch to each other about the lack of proper men, and how we need to relocate, or import a bunch of Western dudes. But this evening we could no longer ignore the fact that there are plenty of willing,...
Shall We Shag Now, or Shag Later, Baby
I was prepping at work last night with Hugo, a guy who’s grown up in Germany and France, and now lives here. He was mumbling about being awkward (which he’s not) and he described a date situation where he felt he’d been weird. The girl involved has since taken her sweet time returning his texts and he’s not sure what’s going on.
I love these conversations, and I...
July 2010
4 posts
Orgy Invite
I was sitting outside of Bluedog on Sunday night and this man came up to me and my work-friends. Addressing all of us at once he asked,
“Have you ever participated in an orgy?”
None of my friends seem to pick up on the fact that he’s just said this.
“No, I haven’t” I respond.
“Well it seems like a perfect opportunity” he says. “It’s...
Laundry Day
It’s saturday and the heat wave finally broke yesterday with huge downpours. I had a toxic acid-rain shower twice. Completely soaked on my way both to and from the gym. My pillows were still damp this morning from the rain they caught through my open window. Today the skies and the humidity have cleared and i’m doing my laundry. It’s finally not too hot, or too wet to go outside. The...
Heat Wave Glamour Shots
June 2010
3 posts
Return of the Late-Night Texting DJs
Remember that late-night monday phone call I got from the group of Djs a month ago (only one of whom I actually gave my number)?
Remember when I called him/them back in the spirit of flirty fun?
Well they struck again. Last night I woke up to the sound of my phone vibrating beside my ear. I thought it was my alarm going off, but it turns out that it was a text message from Bar DJs. This is what...
Things are a bit quiet lately...
I’m in a period of semi-self-imposed-celibacy because I’m housesitting in the suburbs. Enough said.
What’s your excuse Mackie?! I know you have some stories for us!
And anyone with a guest post… bring it on, we’d love to post it.
As for me, I’m too busy tanning and taking photobooth glamour shots to write about my non-existent sex-life!
Your friends beat up my friend- W4M
The old-fashioned approach: actually talking to someone.
Yikes- just accidentally posted this on a way more legit blog! gotta keep my internets straight
So, i’ve used craigslist’s missed connections.
I can admit it.
This was part of my crazy autumn of ‘09 when I was grabbing onto any glimmer of a chance at a hook-up. Boyfriends were not on my mind. I wanted to play the field, but it...
May 2010
13 posts
UPDATE: DJ Fail
So, remember how I’d cursed myself for giving my number out to that DJ? Well it turns out that he did call me.
A week and a half later
on a Monday
at 3:30 am.
That’ll teach me.
I missed the call because I was on a late-night bus home. When I saw that i’d missed a random call at three in the morning I thought that it must just be a wrong number. A few days later when I...
Unprotexted Sext
I have never Sexted anyone. I guess it could be because i’m a bit on the conservative side or something, but I like to put it down to never having a solid boyfriend. I do know people who have regular sext with people they’ve picked up at the bar. One of my friends from high school went home at Christmas and met this guy at a bar. The next time she went out they hooked up. Christmas vacation over,...
Taxi Drive-Her
To continue the second part of the story of my birthday rite of passage, I will tell you about my cab ride home.
To recap: I was stranded outside the city with a broken bike in a hail storm. Leaving my bike to the mercy of the winds, I got into a cab to go home. Car 27313 was not a regular cab. Sami was going to make sure that my birthday adventure continued…
I got into the car feeling...
Friends with Benefits Never Really Works Out For...
Going into it we both knew that it was because we were drunk and horny and in the same room. Nothing more.
But knowing all of this going into the friend-hook-up, knowing really clearly that this is a one-night thing, you can’t do too much. There’s a mental block there, knowing that you want to be friends again when it’s over, remembering tales of girlfriends past. And of course, you...
I Never Learn
Unlike Mackie, I tend not to make the first move physically. I do put myself out there pretty regularly though, hoping that the other person will be interested enough to do something about it…
Last night I couldn’t help myself- I gave out my number to yet another person who will not call me.
*Cue cursing of the heavens*
The guy in question was a fit dj who told me I looked like the...
Disney Moves
I usually find myself making the first move when it comes to kissing a boy. I think it’s because I tend to be somewhat of an impatient and outgoing person. However it doesn’t always work out.
Usually it works like this:
When all I ever want is it to work out like this:
Oh Disney why don’t you teach us how to make Lady-like first moves?
UPDATE: Bookman Fail
So, regarding my last notions about a certain bookseller…my losing intuition continues!
Today I took a shower. I put on makeup and I was rocking out to my music in the sun. Things were working. So when I happened to pass by the bookstore in question I stopped and walked in. There he was, sitting at the desk, about to look up at me when the phone rang. Catching my eye only as he picked the...
Screaming into 23
Last thursday I turned 23. I started the day riding a low that i’d been stuck in for a few weeks. My life has been unhinged in the last month; school and home both changed, a new year ahead and beyond June, I have no idea how i will fill my time until death. Needless to say, I was feeling overwhelmed and not too special when I woke up Thursday.
I spent my morning doing really practical...
Expect More= Do More (Do I have to?)
This weekend gave me a lot to chew on. I had a revelation that got me thinking about how i’ve been relating to men and what i’ve been expecting. In short, i think that in order to protect myself from disappointment I’ve adopted a self-destructive approach. Instead of expecting to be treated thoughtfully, I expect that the men in my life would probably not like to be ‘bothered’ by me. Instead...
Thanks JLo, i missed you
I just got back from The Backup Plan. I think that one of the best investments a movie can make is in the guy who cuts the preview. That movie had such potential but it failed to deliver (HARHAR). JLo’s comeback should’ve been so much more than a dramatization of her baby story! Ugh so many things I could bitch about, but the thing that got me to the cinema (aside from her costar...
April 2010
10 posts
“If something is to stay in the memory, it must be burned in: only that which...”
– - Nietzsche
I like to apply it to my love life.
““…being funny is not being sexy… But I’d rather laugh in bed then do it. Get...”
– - Andy Warhol, from THE Philosophy of Andy Warhol
Personally, I hope to ALWAYS laugh in the bedroom.
(Just another quote because I am AGAIN too busy to write a beautiful and hilarious entry like Annik’s but still had time for a little bit of procrastination. P.S. If you change the...
Skateboarders: Epic Weekend
So procrastination is in full effect. I have only one exam. It’s tomorrow and here I am. but….
Last summer I was getting over what I thought was love. I was still emailing and calling the person in question, but he was living elsewhere forever and we’d parted in a strange way. When I get bolder I’ll go into this story. For now, let’s focus on the aftermath: this fall I went boy...
The episode opens with some age-old philosophical... →
As I am currently moving slash trying to finish university I don’t have time to write one of my own anecdotes today. So I figure I’ll rely on one of my best friends, TV, to do it for me. Oh Boy Meets World how I miss our special date nights on fridays in the nineties.
-Mackie
Premature Rejection
To begin my tell-all boy failure narrative, I’ll go way back to second year university. There was this guy at the gym. I’ve always called him Sandwich Man. I feel like Sandwich Man is representative of all that is both wrong and right with my approach to guys.
I was bold, but not in person, through writing and emailing. Publicly, vulnerably bold. I told him my feelings, but a year later and...
Annik Weighs In
So that’s what you did when you got home last night Mackie! I left the bar a little early because although the dancing was amazing, I was really excited about the blog and had been thinking of a post I wanted to write while I was boogying down. So I left to write what is below. Are we ever on the same wavelength sometimes.
Things haven’t always been easy between me and Mackie. It comes down...
april 27 2010... not supposed to be a good night
Alright so here goes the first post. Although my partner in crime doesn’t know I am posting this, I have just danced to every song I have ever loved (ACCEPT the one I requested - ODB “Baby I Got Your Money” - disappointing DJs) and I have had enough drinks to fulfill Chingy’s “Tipsy” criteria (however not mgd drunk… which you might get to know along the...