Hannah & Julie
roommates, technically adults, writers on the side.
“Everything’s chaaaaanging, when I turn around, all out of what I know, I’m a lone bob.” -Avril Lavigne, Mobile Note: Lyrics above brought to you by me, singing alone in the car to my Avril Lavigne CD from 2004. Not officially provided by Avril or her representatives. I am twenty-four now, guys. We started this …
I finished a really good book the other day. It’s called It Devours by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor (the same people who created that bizarre and wonderful podcast we told you about that one time). It’s set in the desert community of Night Vale, and it’s got all the same wonderful, bizarre things that …
A few weeks ago, Julie and I drove down to Framingham, MA to visit our friend Meg. In our day trip travels, we listened to Red by Taylor Swift four times. We sang the words loudly and mostly incorrectly. If her music is to be believed, T. Swift falls in love hard, with reckless romantic …
The other day I paid a visit to Bad Place, USA. Have you ever diagnosed yourself with a degenerative neurological disorder? What about an arteriovenous malformation? Neither had I, until this fall. I spend a lot of time everyday thinking about cognition. Thinking about thinking if you will. I test my patients’ cognition and train …
I’ve been listening to the Harry Potter books on tape before falling asleep since I was nine years old. First there were cassette tapes, humming from the pink boom box next to my bed. Then there were CDs for the newer books, also played through the pink boom box. The CDs were sleek and cool …
I learned a lot of things in college. Mostly about anatomy and neurology and how babies develop language. (Spoiler, they just do. Babies are pretty cool that way.) But I also learned how to be uncomfortable and how to make hard decisions. How to problem-solve when all I want to do is freak out and …
I’ve heard it said that one good friend is all you need to make it through almost anything. I’m lucky enough to have more compassionate, goofy, and badass people in my life than I can count – but today, I want to tell you about how Julie saved last Tuesday. Tuesday night of last week, …
Monday mornings have been making me a little anxious lately. This semester I started working as a speech therapist. This may have been one of the most long-anticipated events of my entire life. I’d been going to school for five years in preparation for this clinical rotation. Based on that fact, I should be comically …
A few weeks ago, I was re-reading some old journal entries from college. (When we were still in our UNH cap and gown, Julie and I started asking each other, “hey, do you remember that girl from college?” But that was only because we wanted to be douchecanoes for a second. Still not sure if …
I have the sort of manic-zest-for-life that can only come from big life transitions. I’m back from Colorado and settling back into the New Hampshire seacoast. I’m back to school, only this year I’m working full-time as a (student) SLP in a hospital in Portland, Maine. Finally! There are still so many old friends to …