Coffee and a Conversation

As Told Over Brunch is a home for intelligent discourse from the twenty-something perspective - so the stuff you gossip about over mimosas on Sunday morning or over takeout on your friend's couch when happy hour ends too early. We love chatting about our lives, whether it be the relationships we’re building (or destroying), lessons we've learned at work, struggles at school, growing pains we've felt, or even the food we’re talking over.

Shutting It Down: Conference Call Nightmare

March 20, 2017 by Cazey Williams in Cazey's Column, Humor, Life In Your 20's, life lessons

A few weekends ago, I was supposed to attend a conference with a group of classmates. For the semester we had been working on a project for a local nonprofit, and we were to present our project at the conference and get a consultation on implementing our project in the real world.

Due to other obligations, I couldn’t make the conference, but I agreed to FaceTime into the meeting when we met with the consultant. So at 3 PM on a Saturday, my friend FaceTimed me. “Katie” propped up her iPad so that I could see only her, but hear everyone.

We started with introductions and then moved to our project. Since I had spearheaded a lot of it, my classmates asked me to lead the introduction. I asked Katie to pull up our PowerPoint on her laptop, which she did.

The Read Receipt: Read This

March 02, 2015 by Cazey Williams in Cazey's Column, Dating, Humor, Life In Your 20's

Two days ago my friend texted me complaining that the guy she's talking to hasn't turned off his read receipts. Read receipts, for those of you not in possession of a Smartphone, is the phenomenon where you send a text and can then see that your friend/crush/enemy/dad read the text at 6:38 PM.

Nifty, right?

Wrong. Because why aren't they replying? Okay, they're probably making dinner . . . now eating dessert . . . now watching TV, maybe cleaning the dishes . . . checking Facebook . . . showering . . . WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO RESPOND?