September 28, 2015

The Insidious Myth of the Hairless Woman

Women should work hard to distinguish themselves as not-men. It needs to be immediately obvious at first glance whether someone is male or female, because men and women inherently deserve to be treated differently. Women are beautiful, and they should devote considerable time, money and energy to enhancing their beauty — in order to maximize their natural assets. A man is expected to work to enhance his natural physical strength and power, while a woman should work to enhance her natural beauty and charm.

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September 26, 2015

The First Day of the Rest of My Life

To me, graduation was a funeral. While my fellow graduates smiled and cheered, I hung my head and cried. I knew it was a dramatic, privileged, self-indulgent reaction, but at the same time I struggled to keep perspective on what felt like a tragedy. When I thought about graduation, I mourned the loss of a life I’d never see again. Graduation Day felt like The Reaping in The Hunger Games: Everyone pretends that having your name read is an honor deserving of celebration, when in reality all it means is that you’re being sent into a harsh, unknown wilderness where survival is a daily challenge.

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August 25, 2015

Caroline’s Comprehensive Coffee Consumption

If I were to blog about my life in Austin, it would largely be a blog about local cafes. I love working from home — seven years of homeschooling prepped me well for that — but I don’t feel completely whole when I’m in my apartment 23 hours of the day. (That one special hour out is reserved for my near-daily Lady Bird Lake Trail run). So on days when I have a large enough gap in my schedule without any major client calls, I bike or drive to a cafe. I haven’t compiled a comprehensive list yet of all the places I’ve been to, but I’d estimate it’s close to 15. I definitely don’t want this to be a daily habit, as one $3 coffee five days a week x 50 weeks = $750 in a year. But it feels somewhat necessary as I need the variety, and because I work much more comfortably in a cafe than in the Trilogy office downtown. (Trilogy is the parent company that founded Crossover.)

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August 9, 2015

“The Real World”

I’ve always hated when people refer to life after college as “the real world.” Was college not real? I suppose some people coast through college by achieving the bare minimum to be considered “successful” — that is, eligible for employment in a mediocre 9-to-5 contributing incrementally towards some generic product or service with dubious impact on anyone’s well-being (from the overpaid CEO to the underpaid janitor to the mind-numbing dullness of every employee’s monotonous life).

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