February 2012
15 posts
So apparently I have to stop reading The New York Times.
-Mallory
This is an email my aunt sent to my sister and a young gentleman she is setting my sister up with.
This is not a joke. Although my sister and I wish it was.
OK…I’m emailing both of you.. I hope you will find time to meet each other. I was with [boy]’s mom this week at [our extended family’s vacation home in FL] and I mentioned fixing up my perfect niece. And...
What would you consider your “break” in terms of acting work? In 1990, December, I auditioned for [the musical] City of Angels. And I remember 6 months before that I’d said if I can’t get a job I’m going to leave and move to Seattle. You know, I just decided that I’d given it 10 years and that was enough.
Why Seattle? Well, I loved [New York] City – I had never ever decided to leave before...
Hey friends! HNTDYT is expanding off-line and into the real world. We’re putting together a live show and we would love for your experiences to be a part of it. Send us your stories, your anecdotes, anything you have to share about how not to do your twenties. Don’t worry about it being polished, we’re looking for anything and everything. You can find us at hntdyt@gmail.com -...
My friend recently shared this letter she sent to Amtrak with me and I wanted to share it with you. Enjoy.
-Mallory
Dear Amtrak,
I’m a resident of [Major East Coast City], and I had been seeing a man in New York City. We had primarily been using the bus to travel back and forth, as we both work in [a low-paying not-for-profit field] and this was more cost-effective. Unfortunately, this...
Joel: I don’t see anything I don’t like about you. Clementine: But you will! But you will. And I’ll get bored with you and feel trapped, because that’s what happens with me. Joel: Okay. Clementine: Okay. Joel: Okay.
-Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
-Mallory
another thing you need in your twenties
A best friend who will stay facebook friends with your exes after you defriend them in anger. This is important so that she can let you know when he gets engaged and send you pictures of his ugly fiancee.
Happy Valentine’s Day, ps.
-Mallory
I work out every morning. One of my best friends has a serious they-are-basically-married-already boyfriend and she always says that once I am in a similar situation, I will stop working out entirely. To this, I defiantly cry “bullshit” each and every time and not just because woe to the dude who wants to spend time with me if I’m without the mood enhancing effects of my yoga...
your twenties in song
Wouldn’t it be nice if we were older Then we wouldn’t have to wait so long And wouldn’t it be nice to live together In the kind of world where we belong
You know it’s gonna make it that much better When we can say goodnight and stay together
Wouldn’t it be nice….
-“Wouldn’t It Be Nice,” The Beach Boys
-Mallory
Dating websites have a pretty limited pool of data to draw on, and it turns out that you can’t really work out a relationship’s long-term potential based on hair color, shared love of Chinese food, complementary tastes in mid-70s folk music or even a mutual love of Star Trek. Instead, the researchers point out that the most important insights in predicting long-term romantic...
on behalf of all twentysomethings in theater
Dear Mom & Dad,
I am glad you enjoyed “Smash” last night on NBC/stayed up past 10pm for the first time in three years.
However, the only way in which this show resembles my life is that I often wear mens’ shirts. And not in a sexy, happy-birthday-mister-president sort of way, but in a seen-annie-hall-too-many-times sort of way.
But thanks for taking an active interest...
we are still accepting whatever stories you may want to share: hntdyt@gmail.com
(three posts in one day and two involve gchat! can you tell I’m working an office job today?)
-Mallory
gchat wisdom
-Mallory
“Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any misery, any depression, since after all you don’t know what work these conditions are doing inside you? Why do you want to persecute yourself with the question of where all this is coming from and where it is going? Since you know, after all, that you are in the midst of transitions and you wished for nothing so much as to...
As students in fancy MFA programs, The Great MFA Debate is one Jessi and I have regularly. Except it usually goes like this:
One of Us: My degree is stupid. I should go to law school. The Other One: You’d hate law school. The First One: Yeah, you’re right.
The roles we play are interchangeable, but the dialogue stays the same. So it may be worth reading somebody else’s take...