I'm Not Impressed With Your Netflix

June 09, 2015 by Sara Woznicki in life lessons, Tweets and Mascara, Dating, Sara's Column, Life In Your 20's, Leisure, Humor

It's all the new rage in dating. Apparently all the guys will offer it. And I'm only assuming they offer it because girls agree to it.

Rather than offering to take me to dinner, drinks, coffee, a walk, a hike, a kayaking adventure, a theme park, a play, a concert, a sporting event, a museum, a beach or any of the seemingly endless other fun opportunities that this world has graced us with, guys these days like to seduce women with their Netflix account.

Brunch Review: Tupelo Honey Cafe

June 07, 2015 by Sara Woznicki in Leisure, Life In Your 20's, Richmond Brunch Review, Sara's Column, Tweets and Mascara

Several (maybe more than several) months ago, my roommate and I went to visit my sister in Charlotte, North Carolina. While down there, my sister took up to a really great brunch spot. So great, that I have sporadically tweeted about that one time I ate there months ago since then. I have been waiting my fair turn to get to go back. And then Jesus – or a person named Avery, who is basically a brunch Jesus – answered my prayers/tweets.

The restaurant of my brunch dreams was opening about an hour and a half away from me, and they wanted me to come up for brunch. Praise be. My immediate response was, “Do you need me right now? I can be there right now. I’ll just come now and wait outside,” but was able to gather myself and articulate my excitement in a way that (hopefully) didn’t make me seem obsessed.

I Haven't Lived Abroad, But I Will

June 01, 2015 by Cazey Williams in Cazey's Column, Life In Your 20's

When you're getting your PhD, people constantly ask, "So, what do you want to do with that?" They usually mean where would I like to work. I struggle to answer, because before I even got into grad school, I decided I would live abroad after grad school, which is not the typical next step after you've spent four-plus years slaving over a data set.

(When I say "live abroad," I generally specify that I will apply to the Peace Corps or some nonprofit in the public health sector. I don't plan to Apparate into Portugal and find work as a taxi driver; I do want to use my degree.)

Brunch Review: F.W. Sullivans

May 31, 2015 by Sara Woznicki in Leisure, Life In Your 20's, Richmond Brunch Review, Sara's Column, Tweets and Mascara

I have a hit list of places I want to brunch at in Richmond, and F.W. Sullivan's has been one since following them on Instagram. Not only do they appear to have a variety of types of meals, ranging from steak to burgers to pasta dishes and flatbreads, but they deliver (except not for brunch, which I think would be beyond clever). I used that delivery option once for dinner, and felt a bit bad about it, as it was one of the coldest days of the year and the poor bastard biked our food to us. Anyways, not the point of this post. Back to brunch.

In all honesty, we were trying to go to Sidewalk, but then it was unreasonably busy, so we went to Sully's. It was perfectly not swamped, and we got right to a table. Before ordering, a waitress brought us a mimosa that we didn't order, then realized we were new here. She then came back to take our drink order -- just coffee and water (too tired/hungover for some mimosas, who knew that was possible).

Punta Cana: A Guilt Trip in Paradise

May 29, 2015 by Sara Woznicki in Life In Your 20's, life lessons, Sara's Column, Tweets and Mascara, Uncategorized

As I'm sitting on the plane, peeling and satisfied from a week in the Dominican Republic, I am conflicted on my sentiments toward the trip.

I spent five days and six nights in Punta Cana and the Majestic Elegance Resort, which is nothing short of paradise.

When Youth Is Behind You

May 28, 2015 by Cazey Williams in Humor, Life In Your 20's, Cazey's Column, Social Media

Today I went to buy concert tickets. The concert is tomorrow, but I only discovered the band on Spotify last week (In the Valley Below if you know them, you indie you).

I walked over to the box office at the inauspicious time of 3 PM. With tickets at $5, I did not expect a crowd. Most people should be nodding off over their keyboards at work, right? However, what I found was a venue besieged by queues of teen girls and a handful of soccer moms and doting dads. Like, we are talking a hundred females mid-puberty on a sidewalk on an 85 degree day.

Save It For Tiffany's

May 27, 2015 by astoldoverbrunch in Life In Your 20's, Guest Post, Dating, life lessons, Social Media, Work, Young Professionalism

I had a college boyfriend. The kind you kiss behind the dorm room door while your roommate pretends not to be annoyed in the common room. The kind you Snapchat more than you talk to and fight with more than you love. The boy that you never knew you weren’t going to marry.

I’m not in college anymore. I don’t have that boyfriend anymore, either. I’m with someone I didn’t meet in bio lab or in the dining hall. He never want to a campus party with me. We talk way more than we text and if he doesn’t answer me for six or seven hours, I know it’s because he is busy. We don’t fight about iPhone drama the way my college boyfriend and I did. There are a lot of reasons for that, including my increased level of maturity, but the number one reason is this: I’m not in college anymore. I have a different life now, one that includes dress pants every day and business cards in my wallet. My new boyfriend has business cards too, not for the same company (thank goodness), but his life is like my life. We match in many ways.

Small World in a Small Bar

May 26, 2015 by Cazey Williams in Cazey's Column, Life In Your 20's

Several weekends ago I went out with L. We met up with two other friends from undergrad, B and T. They had come from a wedding and had been drinking since 3 PM. It was now 11 PM. And what happens when you come from a celebration of white rose petal romance that includes an open bar and you're all effectively single happened. B's goal for the end of the night? To go home with the bartender, or at least not pay her tab.

"I've never hooked up with a tattooed man before," she said.

Brunch Review: Bay Local

May 24, 2015 by Sara Woznicki in Leisure, Life In Your 20's, life lessons, Richmond Brunch Review, Tweets and Mascara

Here goes nothing: yet another non-Richmond brunch review. I promise I'll be getting back into Richmond restaurants soon. We're keeping it semi-local at least this time with a review from Virginia Beach. When we went to this place, I was already amped. Mainly because I was in Virginia Beach, but I was convinced it was going to be a good brunch. We waited about a half an hour for it, and after eating it, I am wholly convinced I would have waited even longer if needed. It was that good.

Now would probably be a good time to tell you what it was called, which is Bay Local. The atmosphere was awesome, with a very elegant beach theme. If I could decorate my kitchen like it, I would. Our waitress was also phenomenal. I went to Bay Local months ago at this point, and I still vividly remember how awesome she was. So check plus for both of those categories.

When OkCupid Insulted Me

May 22, 2015 by Cazey Williams in Cazey's Column, Dating, Humor, Life In Your 20's, life lessons

As is no secret by now, I use several dating apps for window shopping. (I've yet to purchase anything, and I'm prone to returns - though I don't know what that exactly means metaphorically, but it's true!) One of those happens to be OkCupid, which suggests matches based on questions it asks.

Those questions include things like, "Do you ever not feel like having sex because you feel too unattractive or too unappealing?" (don't proposition me after a buffet) to "STALE is to STEAL as 89475 is to..." (89547). Your answers contribute to your personality profile.