Hey!

It's been a bit over a year-and-a-half since I last blogged. After thinking about continuing with this blog for a while, and discussing the short-lived success of POCKABOOK with friends, I've made the decision to get back into it.

Where POCKABOOK last left off, I had returned to Boston in a caffeinated frenzy, impulsively signed a lease for a new apartment in Cambridge, and was trying to convince myself that Boston was the place for me to be. Feel free to reread the last entry - I was pretty convincing on this point - until it sunk in that Boston was the same as it had been two weeks before, and would probably never change. New York on the other hand, was vibrant and dynamic and constantly moving. Completely the opposite of how Boston felt to me when I came back from my two-week stint in NYC.

To make a long story short, the guy I mentioned before, that I had begun seeing (Leo) and I stuck together and I took the bus to NYC as often as possible to see him and ended up spending half my time in NYC and half my time in Boston. I began to realize that I had no choice - I really needed to get out of Boston - this time for good. I applied to about 30 jobs. I got two interviews, I landed one of the jobs, which was at a graduate school for women and gay men who study art objects, I learned to hate it, stayed there 9 months, broke up with Leo during my final stages of working there, got a job at ABC News thanks to roommate Selena's friend Lauren, and have been working at ABC since August 07. Still single, went insane and began eating healthy and exercising - currently taking gymnastics, etc, etc. Still loving New York, and can't imagine living anywhere else in the U.S. (except maybe San Francisco, but everyone says that, so it's a given).

Now that I've summarized the past 1.5 years of my life, I would like to turn the subject over to something less self-involved. I want this blog to be interesting to other people, not just me. A few ideas have run through my head, in trying to decide what this blog should be about. I thought, maybe I can write a blog about interesting things that people might not know. Like:

The fact that Ashley and Mary Kate Olsen are fraternal, not identical twins

The fact that Oprah's birth name was Orpah.

The fact that there's a part of Russia that isn't connected to the rest of Russia and it's just kind of interesting.

The fact that the most common ethnicity in Manhattan is Dominican. Not Jewish, Italian, African-American, Chinese, Irish, Puerto Rican, etc.



But then I thought that I would quickly run out of interesting things to talk about.

Then I thought maybe I should do some sort of New York-focused blog, but there's already a ton of those.

Then I thought I should just have a really great concept for a blog/website, like


Overheard in New York

or

Stuff White People Like

or

Awful Plastic Surgery


I'm liking this idea. Just come up with a really great concept and stick with it.


Ok. My concept is this:

The human race is splitting in two. Humans will branch in different directions, with one group ending up smart and attractive, and the other group ending up being dumb and gross.

I believe that the human race has already begun this split.

Have you ever met a person that you completely did not relate with? Somebody who seems of average intellect, but who just doesn't get it? Someone who listens to Nickelback or wears a bluetooth thing on their ear? Yes. You've met this sort of person. And you've been hard on yourself for feeling so superior to them. You've tried to figure out why you couldn't just relax and relate. You've wondered why you couldn't ignore the "LOL"s in their emails or the words imprinted on the butt section of their sweatpants, or the fact that they sometimes point to objects and say "these puppies..." And then you found this blog, and read the BBC article on the human race split and now it all makes sense.

But what are you going to do about it?

Nothing. Duh. You can't change evolution. But you can email me telling me about your experiences with all of this. I think it'll be interesting.

Begin.