“Have you met the new girl they just hired?” she asks. 
I shake my head.
“Apparently she’s some ridiculous supermodel or something, and a bunch of your co-workers are freaking out it.”
I turn to her boyfriend, my co-worker. “What’s the story?”
I know we are hiring new people, and they had been conducting a number of interviews over [...]

Rejection is something that I do not handle very well at all. I take it personally. Really personally. Even when I know I shouldn’t. I recognize this about myself, but still can’t seem to get over it.
Rejection is something that you usually have to deal with a lot in your twenties and it comes in [...]

A couple days ago I found out that a friend from high school recently got engaged. My immediate thought wasn’t “Oh wow! Good for her!” like it should have been. Instead, with only the slightest hint of jealousy, I said, “Great. There’s another one.”
I graduated high school in 2004 with less than a hundred kids. [...]