I think I made the right decision going to Berkeley. Here we just have fights between Muslim and Jewish student groups and overly-idealistic protests that don’t really accomplish much but will be re-appropriated by the university administration in 20 years to sell Berkeley as a ‘progressive’ campus.

Well, I mean, I know a guy who at 17 nearly got arrested for grand theft and credit card fraud (or whatever those charges are called in England) for stealing someone’s credit card then using it at a series of restaurants and bars in a drunken stupor but got off because the police couldn’t prove it was him who signed all the bills. I also know a girl who started drinking at 13 and got a DUI at 17 and had to go to rehab.

So my teenage years were nothing like Skins, but some people’s were.

This is one of the three Polish words my Polish grandmother ever taught me. Bless her <3

Yes, honest. Like being honest about the fact that your parents are pastors and you tried to become famous as a gospel singer but failed miserably so now you’ll do anything for attention? That kind of honesty?