- Jessica Chase
Writer
I'm just your typical female oxymoron -- and, no, that's not a play on my intelligence. I'm a girlie tomboy, a misanthropic humanitarian, an introverted extrovert, a realistic liberal, a cynical romantic.
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Category Archives: Love
The future’s so bright, I gotta wear Night Vision goggles.
January 4, 2008 – 3:23 pm
I think the overall consensus agrees – 2007 sucked. But doesn’t that seem to be the consensus every year? You never hear someone declare, “Man, last year rocked! I bet there’s no way in hell that 2008 will even come close.” No, most people choose to lace their usual negative expectations with a tinge of […]
Just call me “Stable Mabel”
September 27, 2007 – 3:57 pm
It appears that new happenings are finally afoot in my briefly stagnant life – well, at least one thing. After sleeping on a fold out couch in my father’s office for the last few months, I finally have a place to call my own…along with two other roommates. I now reside in nice large house […]
Parentally Challenged
August 23, 2007 – 11:30 am
Last weekend, I experienced one of the milestones of a relationship.
As I have shared before, my boyfriend D* took a job shortly, actually the exact day of, our first date. It wouldn’t have been such a big deal if we didn’t hit it off so goddamned perfectly and became practically inseperable for the next two […]
Oh Tucker, you dirty mutha *ucker.
August 15, 2007 – 5:42 pm
As much as I enjoy hymning and hawing about my insecurities when it comes to being in a monogamous relationship, there is a certain dignity and sweet relief the washes over me anytime I walk by a packed-to-the-gills Center City bar on a hot Friday night. Yes, there is a special kind of exhilaration in […]
Back to Whack
August 1, 2007 – 6:00 pm
Looking over my last few posts, I think it’s fair to say that some of you loyal readers are most likely a bit perturbed and annoyed that I have appeared to find some sort of satisfaction in my more-often-than-not usually pathetic love life. Hell, I even make my self want to vomit a little. […]
Hi, I’m your replacement. Hi, I’m your replacement…
July 24, 2007 – 11:33 pm
One of my favorite things about Philadelphia is that, in a lot of ways, it reminds me of Charleston. Sure, it’s a major city, but when it comes to knowing your neighbors and their dirty laundry, it starts to resemble a small town. Like Charleston, it seems like everyone is one person away from knowing […]
Why I used to love a**holes. The people, not the actual…ahem.
July 17, 2007 – 12:22 pm
When it comes to my behavior in regard to past relationships, casual dating, and, convenient flings, I can honestly say that I’ve been a bad girl, who more often than not was in need of a spanking (and usually received it more ways than one.) For those loyal readers of my former column, you know […]
An EX-periment in Friendship.
July 10, 2007 – 8:23 pm
Blame it on my new found sense of possibility, blame it on the “country mouse in the big city” label, blame it on the fact that for the first time in my life, I feel like I’m in a healthy relationship, or blame my lack of energy to hold grudges — I have the overwhelming […]
Strangers in the night, doo-be-doo-be-D*…
June 27, 2007 – 3:53 pm
If Dante Alighieri’s view of Hell happens to be true, most people would probably place me in either the Second Circle, reserved for those overcome by lust, or the Sixth, which is the home for heretics. I myself have always figured I’d fit perfectly into the First Circle, the one set aside for those of […]
I’ll take BFFs over BFs anyday.
June 20, 2007 – 12:45 pm
The first week after my break-up with N* was a tough one. Unlike with S*, I didn’t call my friends for shoulders to cry on or generic sympathetic compliments. I didn’t even want to acknowledge the fact that on the surface we had every possibility of making a relationship work, when the simple truth is […]
