All Posts Tagged With: "opportunity"

I want to start this blog off by saying that Lance is a genius.  Yesterday he posted a blog called What’s Wrong With Sleeping Your Way to the Top, and in addition to running on our site, it was picked as a full-length post for Brazen Careerist (As was my post last week, Top 10 Signs that You’ve Become an Adult.  Check out the Brazen version here, as folks left all sorts of comments that aren’t on our site).

Anyway, one of the awesome and talkative commentors on Lance’s blog, Ulyana (check out her running blog here) and I got into a spirited exchange on the nature of prostitution.  And I argued that stay-at-home moms are arguably prostitutes because their relationship with their husbands is based on the man’s ability to provide them with the stay-at-home lifestyle.

That’s right: I said stay-at-home moms are prostitutes.  Boo-ya! Continued

Hey, everyone!  Sorry I’ve been incommunicado for the last week or so.  Life’s been crazy busy, as it all too often is. Here’s a little taste of what I’ve been up to.

Update on My Happiness

I’ve been doing a lot better as far as my personal independence since my Philosophy of Happiness post.  I’ve gone out again with my sorority alum club and been to the gym almost every day.  Also, in a recent conversation, the BF admitted that he’d been at fault, too.  He’s really still in a lot of debt from grad school because his field doesn’t offer funding to grad students, and he also didn’t do a great job budgeting so there’s a credit card debt factor.  As a result, he can’t afford to do a lot of the things he considers fun, and he admitted that he’s been taking out the frustration about the results of his poor financial planning on me.  But I do have some news that is not only great for me, but which will also alleviate both our financial situations. Continued