Sex on Tuesday

Out, loud and vocal

Sex on Tuesday

I used to hate how women sounded in porn — breathy, overly enthusiastic, shrill, annoying. But I’ve realized that my actual issue with their eager exclamations was that they seemed forced and fake.
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Columns

Coming into character

But despite all of my efforts to become a person of traditional value, alongside my power-hungry ambitions grew a more genuine but equally powerful gravity toward the arts.
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Columns

When the dust settles

Off the Beat

A couple of days after they broke the news to me, I had a big “graduation/going off to college” party. All afternoon, I fielded questions about heading up to San Jose and my plans of being a choir teacher. All afternoon, I lied through my teeth.
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Columns

UC Berkeley perfectionist

Off the Beat

But the downside of the lists was that once something was written down, it needed to get done by the completion date and time I had assigned to it.
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Columns

When in Rome

Off the Beat

I can’t pinpoint the exact reason that I am better at romance in Italy. Maybe it is because my Italian genes make me attractive here and not in Berkeley.
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Columns

Planning ahead

Off the Beat

I hadn’t planned for these moments, but they were just as valuable as the things I’d accounted for in my planner — if not more so.
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