Posts by: arlynnpresser
in my previous post, i wrote about a facebook friend who i understood to have asked me to buy a computer and bring it to her when i visit her for my new year’s resolution. i have had other people make gift requests so the notion was not foreign to me but the magnitude panicked [...]
dr. larry rosen from cal state has just presented a paper which suggests that teenagers who use facebook can become narcissists which is odd because i thought all teenagers were narcissists. but he says facebook encourages teenagers to think that they can publish anything about themselves. well, yeah, they do. rosen also says facebook affects [...]
if you live in new york, you don’t go to the top of the empire state building. too touristy. if you are from chicago, you don’t visit the millenium bean, at least not on purpose. if you’re a resident of los angeles, you don’t go climbing the hollywood sign–although partly, that’s because there’ll be military [...]
f2fb friend #186 sonali srinath walks into the bar and EVERYBODY stares. she wears a pink dress and a smile that makes you feel like someone very gently reached into your chest and replaced your heart with tiny firecrackers. she’s confident and bold, dainty and mischievous. i hadn’t seen much of her since five years ago [...]
sometimes i like to think that this new years eve resolution has changed me. made me less afraid of the world outside my door. i’m getting on planes. i’m driving heaven knows how many miles. i have learned about people’s spiritual and personal lives. i have hiked in the mountains and sailed on boats. i’ve [...]
angels show up all the time and i don’t even think they are full time. maybe it’s a part time gig. i’ll have to ask my f2fb friend #184 rebecca cohen when i see her next. like “what are your hours?” this is important because i met not one but [...]
we sometimes don’t end up where we expect to and that’s certainly true for me and my f2fb friend #183 deb seymour. i never expected to be a fifty one year old (yes, it happened july 23!) traipsing around the country and the world looking for my facebook friends. it started off as a new [...]
spiritually, i’m a third grader. i believe in a God that has a white beard and is pretty pissed off at me most of the time. i believe in a hell where it’s hot and smells like burning tires. i believe in a Jesus who died on the cross for our sins but i have [...]
f2fb friend #181 john howard is an actor. extremely talented. appears on chicagoland’s many stages every season. acting, of course, is just a day job so he can support his true love insurance brokerage. some of the best actors in the industry–clooney, de niro, penn, nicholson–would trade in all their oscars for a chance to [...]
a lot of people have told me this project is stupid because i’m going to get myself killed–most likely by some psycho facebook friend who will get me alone, strangle me, tear up my body parts, and dispose of them in such a way that a three part CSI miniseries will be devoted to it. [...]
