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The Archaeology of Everything

By Kristi Berry November 15, 2010 3 Comments

Admittedly, I don’t have a lot of direction in my life.  Seriously, it says so here on my blog bio.  See?  So must be true.  BUT, in the not so distant past I had even less, if you can believe it.  In the summer of 2009, things subtly came together for me and I figured […]

Lateral Movement

By Kristi Berry November 4, 2010 3 Comments

Here’s to checking in on the job sitch.  As for all my carefully tooled applications, they’ve so far yielded no responses.  I stand at the list of publishing jobs I already posted, and have added one in the visual arts department at Rutgers.  Nada. It’s been a bit dispiriting.  To be honest, I think I […]

Misery is the Father of Action

By Kristi Berry October 11, 2010 2 Comments

If necessity is the mother of invention, misery is surely the father of action.  My job at the Republic of Banana continues to be steadily terrible.  Perhaps I’m being melodramatic; in fact, I feel certain I am.  But this is at least a sign that my soul has not yet been completely beaten down by that […]

Baby’s First Fashion Week

By Kristi Berry September 20, 2010 2 Comments

So glamorous is this rite of passage that I didn’t even recognize its existence: a girl’s first fashion week.  This past Wednesday, my sister and seasoned NYFW vet Allison invited me to join her at a show, to my own girlish glee.  The first hurdle, of course, was wardrobe.  Alli called it “not a big deal,” […]

Back on the Prowl

By Kristi Berry September 12, 2010 5 Comments

My dear readers, I write to inform you that the job search angle of this blog is making a comeback in a big way.  After a summer of denial, autumn is upon me, and I’ve begun to face reality.  I think it really hit me one day working with Rita, Banana Republic Freehold’s reigning queen.  The […]

Christopher Nolan, Dreamweaver

By Kristi Berry July 30, 2010 1 Comment

This blog is rapidly devolving into a detailed account of one woman’s descent into obsessed madness over Inception.  I have now seen this movie three times.  To be fair, this is me.  My sister once astutely observed that I “have an obsessive personality,” a statement that immediately rang true and has only been regularly reinforced by my behavior […]

The Cobol Job

By Kristi Berry July 21, 2010 1 Comment

For those who have seen Inception – and you should.  Have you?  Stop reading this; go now.  Come back afterward – Anyway, my friend Lucy tipped me off about a sweet bit of bonus material on Leonardo DiCaprio’s website.  It’s an online graphic novel prequel that details the job that landed our protagonists where they […]

Inception

By Kristi Berry July 18, 2010 Leave a comment

I just got back from seeing Inception – like, legitimately half an hour ago.  Theoretically that would make it easier to write about, but Inception is by definition impossible to talk about.  It’s Christopher Nolan’s dream world, where Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and co. invade people’s sub-consciouses to commit corporate espionage.  That’s the short story.  […]

Dream On

By Kristi Berry June 17, 2010 Leave a comment

I nearly forgot to detail an extremely blog-worthy dream I had last night.  DreamKristi found herself in some sort of beach house (that looked a bit like the foyer entrance into grocery stores, which around this time tend to have beach furniture inside them).  I guess I was staying there, but it was like I’d […]