Just when I think I could never possibly forgive this country for all its cruelties… …it goes and pulls a stunt like this.

25 January 2010 Alberta, Canada Twenty three year-old blogger and promising young novelist, Camille Archives of Archives of Our Lives, died today after struggling through the popular twenty-minute workout DVD, Jillian’s 30-Day Shred. According to the last blog post she published, Ms. Archives was dedicating this new year to total success: she was committing to [...]

I didn’t set any official new year’s resolutions this year, because New Year’s Eve sneaked up on me and by the time it rolled around, I was loading up tissue after tissue with enormous amounts of snot, declaring my hatred for the ineffectiveness of DayQuil™, and making nasal-love to my bottle of Dristan™ like I [...]

***Because this is an even-numbered year and because I’m sick of waiting around for life to grant me with success, I have decided to take this year as an opportunity to enter every contest for which I am eligible.  The following is a submission for a writing contest at my university; I entered it last [...]

Some of you might be aware of the fact that I live my life, overwhelmingly, through guilt. I eat what I eat (or don’t eat what I don’t eat) because of the guilt I know will invariably come when I’ve made a poor eating decision. I write thank you notes because it eats away at [...]

So Poor Kyle was disappointed because I wouldn’t let him buy a really expensive dog right before we have to pay tuition for university, and then the next day, to soften the blow, I told him he could buy a new TV, but when that turned out to be more expensive then we planned, I [...]

Is it presumptuous of me to give you a To Do list? No matter—you’ll thank me once you’ve checked the items off the list. A To Do List for the Readers of Archives of Our Lives (1/13/2010): 1. Listen to this song: 2.  Listen to this song: 3. Answer for me the following question: “How [...]