April 12, 2022
Picking up from yesterday – 1) in the past year, from his birthday to his birthday, what is he proudest of? He was proud of how a bond he had with his brother, that was already strong, was strengthened even
April 11, 2022
[Again, old post. Imagine this is April 2022.] So, Cory Booker’s actual birthday isn’t for a couple of weeks still. But he had his LA party tonight. It was awesome, at this beautiful rooftop restaurant. They had a cute cake.
September 16, 2020
What fun this was. (I know by the time you’re reading this, he’s already well out of the race, but it was very cool and hopeful at the time!) As you know, we love our bff Cory Booker. (And usually
December 2, 2017
Picking up from yesterday – And when I told him what I said here – that I sooo believe in being kind to unkind people, but in this instance, I’m struggling so hard to understand how, he told me kindness
August 2, 2017
[Trying to give you a slight breath of fresh air in the midst of getting caught up on sexual assault posts… Here’s another unrelated one!] So, I went to two different Cory Booker talks this weekend, because… well, he was
July 31, 2017
And when I say tiny, I mean tiny. There are a million examples of why he is great. (He saved a person from a burning building. Like, you don’t need this example, per se.) But, it stuck with me, so
July 30, 2017
Another Cory Booker post! Yes, I saw him speak two days in a row. So cool, right? [Edited to add: The episode is out! I highly recommend a listen. You can check it out here. (I couldn’t totally figure out
July 29, 2017
[great news! This is not a post on sexual assault!] As you know I’ve been trying to catch up on this blog. And while I maybe have a handful (or a couple of handfuls?) more things to say about sexual
December 8, 2016
A few days ago, I shared a story of Senator Cory Booker giving me comforting words after I told him about being sexually assaulted. (He is my role model, and I was struggling so so so so hard… And when
November 16, 2016
If you’ve read this blog, you probably know I’m pretty friendly with Cory Booker’s office. And I blogged not that long ago about visiting his Senate office. Well, now that the election’s over, Cory Booker’s wonderful, sweet, beautiful office staff
October 4, 2016
I had a very gorgeous, lovely, wonderful meeting in Cory Booker’s office. I met with his Chief of Staff, Matt Klapper. And talking to Matt is almost like talking to Cory. He is so inspiring, and I really enjoyed my
March 9, 2016
I went to see Cory Booker talk at Kaufmann Concert Hall. As per usual, it was life changing. He talked about all the wonderful, fantastic things he usually does – about living with love and how sometimes being the most
November 4, 2013
I don’t know if you read, but Waywire changed owners and deleted everyone’s accounts without warning. Now, Cory Booker had made me this incredible wire challenge response. It was one of my most prized things in the world – which
October 16, 2013
Congrats to Senator-elect Booker! So, I’m obviously a big fan of Cory Booker’s. There are some freak outs from me on twitter, this blog, and basically everywhere from the first time he tweeted me – and made me a video(!),
September 22, 2013
*Note: This should’ve posted weeks ago. But I was just too busy. Just so you know, this info is old. He is not currently in L.A. – – – – So, Cory Booker’s in L.A. tomorrow night, having a reception
May 20, 2013
Remember when I totally screwed up twitter? Were you worried that Cory Booker totally hated me after that and we weren’t twitter friends anymore? ‘Cause I sure was! Well, great news. Even after i ruined twitter by incessantly annoying him
April 30, 2013
So, I realized that yesterday, I did a play-by-play of the day without really giving the actual moment of meeting Cory. Once it was my turn, I was pretty much shaking when he shook my hand. I said something like,
April 29, 2013
What?! Yes, it happened! If you’re following me on twitter (my favorite of all social media things), or my brand new instagram, or you’re a fan on Facebook – then you’ve already heard! I am still in disbelief. He’s Cory
October 23, 2012
And I am dying! I’m a big super dork who pretty much sobbed, freaked out, and couldn’t get over the fact that her role model was communicating with her through the internet. If you’re not following my on Twitter, you
January 19, 2022
Blogging is already slightly ‘out of fashion’. Most people have moved on to videos. In the last 10 years, Vine came and went. YouTube is still kind of around. TikTok seems to be the thing of the moment now. So,
June 24, 2021
Bahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha Goodness, goodness, goodness gracious. What a freaking year. Buckle up ’cause this is a really long post (sorry… I’ve been gone a while, and a lot has happened to reflect on). Now that the world is opening up again,
December 30, 2020
This was a weird year, because simultaneously nothing and somehow lots of things happened? So, let’s get into it. January – Attend the Producers Guild Awards as a guest of Nancy Meyers where I got to see a package all
November 3, 2020
[Obviously this is a very old 2 year old post, as I still TRY to catch up. We’ll see if I’m actually able to do it!] Nev-ADD-a better ADD up those votes. I cannot beLIEVE… We have waited so long.
October 2, 2020
While we’ve been talking about how I’m spending all my time, and being in school and everything – this is what I’m doing with all the rest of my time! Working on a talk show, baby! I have LOVED working
September 18, 2020
While we’re talking about canvassing – I also did some canvassing in Ohio during the midterms! Man… am I not a good luck charm? I’ve canvassed for a lot of candidates who ultimately did not win… But! I made calls
September 17, 2020
Again, we already know at this point this was moot, because Biden is our candidate. But it was nice at the time. Cory Booker and Kamala Harris were out of the race by this point. I had a few other
September 14, 2020
While we’re on the subject of demonstrations and politics, here’s a post I drafted back in October 2018! So, I went and protested two weekends in a row against putting Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court. And after all was
March 3, 2018
I never really thought I’d say this. I’ve been trying so hard to hold on for the past year and a half or so. And I kept posting late, and backposting drafts I’d finally finished, and trying SO hard to
January 1, 2018
Picking up from yesterday – May – I don’t know… I went to England? I mean, I know there’s Brexit and everything. Nonetheless, it’s still part of Europe – which is what I already used as my last month thing.
October 18, 2017
I’ve been thinking about the different ways narratives affect things… I think about this sort of a lot – not just with sexual assault and abuse.. I thought about this before any of that happened… I maybe even have talked
July 24, 2017
I don’t know if this post applies to anybody else, or if it’s really just me… But sometimes I feel like I hear great advice from people, kind of about how to live, or how to be a “better person,”
March 16, 2017
I guess technically, I didn’t have to fly so much, but goodness, did I. [Sorry, this is just a random draft I never posted, and now I have space for it!] I started the week in California. Then on election
November 30, 2016
What does true forgiveness look like to you? If you’re familiar with the story and want to skip the recap, skip on down to the next time you see a line like this: – – – – – – –
November 22, 2016
Well, this is weird. I never thought for a second this would ever be something I talked about (or felt I needed to talk about) on this blog… And yet, here we are. I’m posting a lot about sexual assault
November 15, 2016
I’ve now been talking about the election for a full week. So I’m ready to stop (ish), I do have one more related (ish) post coming out this week about hanging out with Cory Booker… But, as for my last
June 19, 2016
So, as I’m going through some drafts, here’s another one. This is why we can’t have nice things – the way we act as a whole on the internet. When Elizabeth Warren was running for Senator, and I went to
March 10, 2016
I had put a request in for tickets to Last Week Tonight when the window opened, because it’s an exceptionally hot ticket and I wanted to go! I even have some writer friends on the show who couldn’t grab me
March 8, 2016
I think I kept expecting my life to make this wild turn, whereas really, I think some stuff might be more of a gradual turn… When Jaime came to town, and I danced the night away, and I finally started
February 25, 2016
[Edited to add: Hi. This is Aurora from the future. I’m gonna leave this mess below up for posterity. But all this aimless complaining that I do in it – just to clear it up for you… The Sunday of
August 14, 2015
It’s Friday! Time for another veggie/vegan challenge post! The other reason I don’t think I could go vegan is because I am afraid of the label of “vegan.” Based on my experiences, what many vegan people think that label generally
April 12, 2015
Time for another installment of this Wednesday/Sunday night series! Picking up from last time – So, am I angry because I’m fearful that part of what she says may have some truth somewhere in it? I like to think not.
April 5, 2015
Time for another installment of this Wednesday/Sunday night series! Picking up from last time – Since we just talked about getting my final approval from the mental health professionals, I want to touch on that whole thing one last time.
September 14, 2014
Picking up from last time – So, the psychologist mentioned that she thought I wasn’t old enough to have the feeling yet that I needed to “give back to society.” Oh goodness. First, life is not some game of “If
August 27, 2014
Picking up from last time – I honestly felt like from practically the moment I walked in the room, this woman was not on my side. I am not one to usually blast people on the blog – especially when
August 25, 2014
Picking up from last time – I’ll admit I’ve been taking on sort of a lot lately with various marathon training, working a lot, plus all the volunteer activities and yada yada yada. There’s always an excuse. It’s too easy
August 3, 2014
Picking up from last time – So, in the big kidney talk, the various medical professionals had touched on visiting hours and when people would be able to see you. I remember visitors being such a thing at Mass General,
July 18, 2014
Picking up from last time – The line moves. We get closer and closer to turning the corner. We talk a little about what we’re expecting, what we’re going to say to her, and all that jazz. I’m pretty stuck on
July 8, 2014
In case you haven’t heard, every year on my birthday, I do something I’ve never done before. I know we’re talking about this in July (instead of June) because we’ve been busy talking about kidneys, Hillary Clinton, and mud runs
July 5, 2014
Why did you decide to do 52 half marathons in 52 weeks? After I had to take all that time off of running (from being sick and in the hospital and everything), a half marathon seemed next to impossible. I
April 19, 2014
Picking up from yesterday – So, I hear we need to get cases of water to the roof for the finishers. Then one of the sponsors comes up to me because he has boxes of towels that need to go
March 12, 2014
Picking up from yesterday – My strategy – which you can (of course) feel free to ridicule and/or disagree with as much as you’d like, though I stand by it – was to basically obliterate* the first half while the
March 9, 2014
Going to bed the night before the LA Marathon, I had this vision in my head that when I woke up, things were going to be the same way they’d been for the Goofy Challenge – that even though I
March 5, 2014
Picking up from yesterday – Basically our only job during mock mediations was to warn the mediators when they had 30 minutes left and 5 minutes left. As someone who’s stage managed before, I felt right at home giving the
February 27, 2014
Picking up from yesterday – So, we finished tearing apart the room. We didn’t get to help build anything, which is too bad. But I suppose if you have a bunch of random people of all different skill levels, it’s
February 11, 2014
Picking up from yesterday – The most important lesson I’ve taken from this is that as soon as I get home from an even that involves a lot of photos, I must (must) get them onto my computer and in
February 10, 2014
“I Am Going To Die Under a Pile of Digital Photographs” – that was the original blog title. Sorting seemed overwhelming. It almost felt like a ridiculous project to undertake. Because really, would I ever finish them? In my life
January 16, 2014
In the “year of responsibility,” I wanted to get more responsible about my food. I thought one way I’d do that is explore options more toward veganism. (As we may or may not remember, I have to do six months
January 10, 2014
Going back to the theme of having learned more about social media this past year to kind of finish out those posts – I got my tumblr blog a long time ago, then didn’t really use it. Finally, I saw Eric
January 1, 2014
Picking up from yesterday – August: Joined the board of the L.A. chapter of Mensa. On tumblr and instagram. September: Started my classes at Harvard Extension, although ultimately I ended up dropping them – which we will definitely talk about
December 31, 2013
Still learning the optimal ways to do years in review. In 2012, I did not make a blog post about it. I remember at the time, it’s because I didn’t feel I’d done enough and that I didn’t have enough
December 27, 2013
Picking up from yesterday – I’d been thinking about making the transition for a long time, but I wasn’t making any leaps…Until I sort of forced it upon myself accidentally. One day, as I was organizing my photos on my
December 24, 2013
Picking up from yesterday – In addition to the collage in the back of my bathroom, I put up a frame with 3 photos of me and my dad on my countertop. I used to complain to him that he
December 23, 2013
I said this was the “year of responsibility.” So, let’s check in on some of that stuff. I applied to various programs in New York this year and didn’t get in to a single one of them. Since I’ve now
December 6, 2013
The other night at work, I saw we had a new magazine out with our magazines. I’m not humongously into reading articles about the most productive people, ’cause I’m like “eh, a lot of them are similar and I’ll figure
November 17, 2013
So you know how after Waywire was sold (after previous owner Cory Booker became a senator) and then immediately gutted the site with no warning whatsoever causing me to go into a total meltdown / breakdown / freak-out / cry-fest?
November 13, 2013
Yesterday, I talked about getting stood up at The Price is Right. (I think we can all agree it was a bad decision on the stander-uppers part, because I am telling you am the ultimate audience supporter (especially since
October 17, 2013
Yesterday, I was writing my post about awesome Cory Booker. I thought, “instead of just saying he made a video for me, I should link to it.” When I went to my Waywire channel, it didn’t exist! What? How can
October 15, 2013
Picking up from yesterday – In addition to totally entertaining me, he also really inspired me. He was telling this story about moving to L.A. right before his 30th birthday. I don’t really think the point of that story was
August 29, 2013
Just a reminder, if you read yesterday’s post in email form, I accidentally sent you an earlier draft, in which I hadn’t yet turned it into two posts. Therefore, this will be VERY familiar, as it’s just the 2nd half
August 13, 2013
Cory Booker (completely unsurprisingly) won the special Democratic Senate primary election today. (Really, why were three people running against him?) Even though I knew this race was a total lock, I made phone calls for him yesterday – just in
July 11, 2013
Picking up from yesterday – my typos. Oh, my typos. If you’ve been around me while I’m tweeting, you know that I agonize for minutes over, “Is this the best way to say this?” “Do you see any typos?” and
June 11, 2013
Yesterday, I mentioned I wanted to try more to be someone’s Cory Booker instead of worrying if the Cory Bookers of the world were noticing me. So, what am I doing with my life currently? I’ve mentioned some things before.
June 10, 2013
Picking up from yesterday – Here’s what I took away from that. People might be listening to me. I know that when I first got twitter, it was like a game to try to get Cory Booker to tweet me. But
June 9, 2013
Oh my gosh. Am I really going to tell another twitter story that revolves around Cory Booker? Yes. Sorry. (But it’s going somewhere (or at least I think), so I hope you stick around and read it!) (Also, I need
May 24, 2013
Picking up from yesterday – Addressing one of the only other problems I could imagine people having with twitter: Like anything on social media, there will always be haters out there. That’s not really twitter’s fault, though. That’s just kind
May 22, 2013
Since I spent almost a week talking about how bad Facebook is for me, and how much happier I am when I use it less – and I raved all about twitter yesterday – I thought it might only be
May 21, 2013
Since I’ve been mentioning the wonders of twitter lately, I thought I’d take a chance to just write a little love letter about twitter. I. love. twitter. I know that’s maybe a bit weird for someone who isn’t generally in
May 10, 2013
Ugh. (To myself.) For the record, I loooooove twitter. Love it. And I care waaay too much about what other people think. (Also, how is it possible that I’ve had twitter for many months, yet I’m still learning how to
May 8, 2013
Oh my gosh. Have you ever tried hot yoga? Because it is rough! (This is part of my “year of responsibility – doing more yoga. So why not hot yoga? Well…) When I was visiting Ohio months ago (right before
May 2, 2013
After the incredible Cory Booker reception, I had a lovely couple of days with my friends Jaime and Carlos. I stayed in their awesome apartment. We went walking all along the great hills of San Francisco. I saw the exterior
May 1, 2013
– and stick it on a shelf, and keep it safe. I mean, not really, of course. ‘Cause that would be boring. And who in the world knows what could possibly happen next? Life is all about adventures – ups
March 7, 2013
I’m pretty sure that almost whenever the internet comes up, I’m talk way more often about hating the it than loving it. (Spoiler alert: Tomorrow’s post will be about hating it!) But there sure are some things about that I
March 6, 2013
So, this is not my announcement of my next project (which at this point, I feel like I’ve hyped way too much, by the way). But, this is something I will be focusing on. I have had a lot of
February 11, 2013
Oh boy. Buckle up. I kinda got popular while in Orlando (and a bit after). You can check me out here, here, here, and here. (Don’t get too excited. A lot of it is the same info at different places.
February 5, 2013
All right, y’all! Welcome to the conclusion of fundraising week. (Thanks for sticking with me.) So whatever happened to the $13.10 Challenge? 1) Did we reach the fundraising goal of that challenge? As is pretty evident on my fundraising page,
February 4, 2013
Fundraising week is winding down. I’m finally done sharing the plummets on my emotional roller-coaster (aka whining on the internet). The one thing that has been really great about fundraising is that being in the money-raiser position, I am now
January 31, 2013
Fundraising week continues on the blog! I am thankful for all of you not abandoning my just ’cause I’m talking about money stuff. I’m about to close out the project, so I gotta do it, you know? Here is my
January 22, 2013
Picking up from yesterday – Once we made it into Hollywood Studios, people were giving out candy! Yep, various kinds of chocolate. Yum yum. …? “Yum yum” was my first thought when I saw candy. However – for one thing.
January 9, 2013
Who remembers? (That’s a rhetorical question, the point being I don’t remember.) I’m sure it was going to be some clever thing about traveling from L.A. to Orlando, or more likely a simple “Traveling From L.A. to Orlando.” The point
December 18, 2012
Picking up from yesterday – There are plenty of “no-meat athletes,” many of whom are stronger and faster than I am – by a lot! A lot, a lot. I don’t think animal products inherently make you more alert or
December 14, 2012
Round 1. I am a bit amazed at how long it takes just to wrap up this adventure. I guarantee you it will take this entire month (at least) to organize and wrap out this crazy year. One of the
December 9, 2012
Picking up from yesterday – So, I did the race even thought I was sick. I was very lucky that I found a great place to stay on CouchSurfing.org. I stayed with Anton, an extremely nice, fun man. He had
December 7, 2012
I met these two magical women on my flight to Seattle. I don’t know how to make this post interesting, but I really felt like I couldn’t not mention them, ’cause for me, it was something to remember. Cathy, the
November 5, 2012
I know we’ve been hearing a lot about the elections. I’m sorry to add to all that noise, but I wanted to write this post. Tomorrow (probably today when you are reading this), we’ll decide the President of the United
November 1, 2012
Originally, I had notes for future drafts highlighting good things about being vegetarian/stepping down to vegan. I was going to talk about trading out my dairy groceries for their non-dairy counterparts, and adding in spinach lasagna to help make up
October 18, 2012
Redeye flight. That’s the way to do it, my friends. (Not always, as we learned with my first marathon.) But, generally, I think redeyes are pretty rad. You get your entire day in your home city. You have time for a
September 24, 2012
Picking up from two days ago – (or yesterday if you want – though I say skip it. (It wasn’t a pleasant post)) – I get off the connecting bus, and get onto yet a third bus. My first two
September 13, 2012
On the train tonight, I sat next to Zebadiah, an interesting man. He gave me this hypothetical scenario. “A panel of alien overlords are going to decide whether Earth is destroyed. You are the one who has to have the meeting with
September 4, 2012
The story has been sufficiently told, but there were two little things I forgot to mention, so I thought I’d throw in this post. Because public transportation in L.A. is the way it is, I had to leave my house
April 8, 2013
Picking up from yesterday – Oh goodness, time to talk about the wheel. During the commercial break, Drew came over and looked each one of us on the eye as he moved down the line and said, “good luck” to