Julia Files

La Douleur Exquise, Part Deux

Bonjour, my faithful readers. Apologies upon apologies for not writing in the past few months- grad school has been kicking my ass worse than Bobby Brown. Instead of daydreaming about dirty martinis and Jimmy Choos, I’ve been having...

That Girl

That girl. We’ve all seen her, dangling off her barstool, cleavage popping out of her Charlotte Russe corset top as she clings to the person next to her like a drugged chimpanzee and insists that “she...

Dirty Little Secrets

One time, long, long ago in the days where I could survive off of three hours of sleep, two packages of Ramen, and a case of Bud Light, I did something sort of embarrassing. It wasn't exactly reckless...

Jealousy- necessary or nonessential?

Jealousy. We've all tangoed with the green-eyed monster more than a few times in our lives. I know I've stood in line at Starbucks, contemplating if the heel on my boot would knock the girl...

La Douleur Exquise

La Douleur Exquise.A beautiful French expression meaning the exquisite pain of loving someone unattainable.I spent yesterday in a Sex and the City coma, watching the DVDs as I lounged on the couch and prayed to the...

Boy meets girl, boy waits around for phone to ring?

I'm a sucker for a traditional love story. Go ahead, laugh your face off. What respectable twenty-five year old woman who has a college degree, an over-eager appreciation for old horror movies, and a slight obsession...

Breakups and make ups and drama, oh my!

Have you ever had a pair of pants bust on you? Most of us have at some point in our lives. You know, you slither into them with the dexterity of a gymnast, holding your breath so hard that...

Relationships 101: Where to meet them, Part Deux

Welcome to part deux of the installment I've written to lend some sort of sense of direction to the aimless masses wandering through the cobwebby world of dating. This one's for the gentleman, because let's face it...

The Little Things

Photo: PicApp.com/Corbis 2009 Can people from different factions of life date? Wait, wait. Don't throw the bigot card at me; I'm not talking about interracial relationships. I'm talking about the little sects of...

The Ratio of Like

Relationships are rarely on even footing. Let’s face it, shall we? As much as we’d all like to entertain the sparkly fantasy that our knight in this season’s shining Pumas will come in, sweep...

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