Maybe it’s the beer or the pastry or the walkways lined with succulents, but that night I feel that I am not only on a date with myself, I am head over heels in love with me.

The Hairpin || June 27, 2012

To become a licensed esthetician in New York you need to complete 600 hours of training. It’s a little less than five months and costs about what a crappier used car would run you. What’s funny is that it wasn’t until I was enrolled and had been attending class for almost a month when a friend said, “Really, Julie? Beauty school? You’re going to, like, what? Be waxing buttholes all day when you’re seventy?” that I fully comprehended what I was in for.

The Hairpin || February 23, 2011