Didn’t succeed at my attempt at having an academic career, and now I’m making a new life after returning to Chicago. I’m never really sure if I’m doing things right, but I’m still here and still trying.
Look if you want to be morally pure but irrelevant, this attitude is great. The world is messy though, and any attempts to improve the world require becoming capable of organizationally and emotionally capable of dealing with said mess.
When your day is bad, just remember, it can always get worse. You could be the author of an article an undergraduate forced to read:
Please note I am not the author of the article this is a dm to my friend. He gave me permission to share
Anodyne observations about minor annoyances do not require advice. Like seriously, people need to not be weird to Jamelle Bouie. When my friends complain about their kids, I don’t respond with anger or advice. I’m just like “that sucks” and then change the subject to Ororo
As a kid, my dad worked as a sales rep in the music industry, and he would sometimes take me on his rounds, Tower Records being a constant. I haven’t been at this intersection in 20 years, but walking by this building again, my memory of the tower there overwhelmed into literally taking a step back
As a kid, my dad worked as a sales rep in the music industry, and he would sometimes take me on his rounds, Tower Records being a constant. I haven’t been at this intersection in 20 years, but walking by this building again, my memory of the tower there overwhelmed into literally taking a step back
When Letitia James seizes this and the Trump letters come down, this will be the first time in Chicago history Chicagoans willingly call something by its new name.
On the likely electorate cross-tab, they have Trump winning millennials AND women. I think they just need to admit that got a bad sampling and move on.
