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" SoulCycle feels gross, is gross, and I'm grateful to have found it. "
Mary H.K. Choi
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Feels
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" I cannot quantify the physics of friendships and do not know exactly how much intense pressure can be applied before these glittery, brittle bonds break. "
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" Never hold up your entire group of friends in real life trying to capture a perfect Instagram pose. Nobody cares. "
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" My mom is an excellent mom. She knows I am irascible, prickly, and antisocial. She knows that most human interaction makes me tired and that I either scare people away with precise invectives or trot out the fakest, nicest skinjob of myself because it requires zero effort. "
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" You are overwhelmed, overscheduled, and dejected because you keep trying to have it all - or at least most of it. You want a fulfilling job and personal life, and it's not working. The way out? Work more. "
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" Bieber has taste and pull, which is as important to making quality pop as actual talent. "
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" The second single from 'Purpose,' Justin Bieber's fourth studio album, 'Sorry' is an infectious confection - a Dorito for your ears. "
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Everyone
" Try life as your own boss, on your own voyage. No daily commute. No salad bar at 12:15. No cc'ing about the meeting. "
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" For my first job interview out of college, I wore a cream-colored cotton suit with cap sleeves and an inverted box pleat skirt that was appropriate for the late-August heat - and wildly discordant with the Red Hook offices of the graffiti magazine I had called twice to find. "
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Find
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" Jockeying for a popularity position has been a valorized teen tradition since the notion of a discrete teen stage of life was invented. "
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" If you can relate to what another person is going through while giving their experience room to be its own discrete thing, you're probably a crackerjack emergency contact. "
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Experience
" Consider this: alms aside, Wikipedia is fueled by competitive pedantry and emo-ness. How great is that? "
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" I'm definitely an indoor kid who's turned into an inside person. "
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Definitely
Inside
" I do not care for musicals. In fact, I hate them. "
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" Do you know why we pay trainers and nutritionists? Because having to muster interest in the minor successes of someone else's journey toward pedestrian-ass healthiness is taxing and should be compensated. "
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" I roll my eyes at the grandstanding blowhards who have 'fixed' themselves, but I keep up with the gizmos and apps that track people's various rhythms. I'm no lifelogger or body-hacker, but I'm curious, and I want to be in-tune enough to know what's really the matter so I can level up and be at my most awesome. "
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" I've always been a texting advocate. "
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" If there was a button that I could push that would agog my brain to the level that I felt first seeing 'Avatar' in its entirety and another one for food pellets, I would die of starvation. "
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" My sweet spot as a writer and, especially, as an essayist is sub-1500 words. "
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" I was born in Korea and left before my first birthday. "
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" Your mom is the first person you fall in love with, so it's loaded forever and carries all this baggage. There's almost always a communication barrier in place. In my case it's a language and cultural barrier, but other times, it's because your mother's love is conditional or because you're fundamentally different. "
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" Everyone is such a mystery, yet we chug along so much of the time presuming we're all on the same page. "
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