Tragedy on a collegiate level
Chairy Girl rips his words straight from the screen so you can stare… and cringe… ouch. The wonders of email never cease.
Maketh Me Swoon
Chairy girl’s hobbies include working crappy jobs, attempting to skateboard, and watching reruns of “Family Matters.” No wonder she can’t get a boyfriend.
LiveJournals are the death of everything sacred
Chairy Girl emerges after months on a secret undercover mission, staggering, wounded, muttering over and over, “Livejournals are the death of everything sacred.” Here’s what we could piece together from her report.
Love & Veggie Tempura
Chairy Girl breaks with the usual format, to give some thoughts on love in keeping with the season, and how broccoli is the worst part of selfish tempura.
Your Already Damaged Soul?
Can Chairy Girl survive a broadside of obsessive melodramatics? Stay tuned.
do you like me, check yes or no
AOL Instant Messenger becomes a mind games battlefield; more bruised feelings from Chairy Girl. Plus, when boys go creepy!
Thanks a lot, asshole.
Hey, even guys who go to meetings of their college’s “Objectivist Club” can’t spell or form a sentence worth a good goddamn (to say nothing of the dubious level of emotional maturity). Thanks Maketh Me Swoon.
Always the other girl
Chairy girl gives us heartrending monolgue, the waning trickle of a stream of consciousness, in Maketh Me Swoon.
You’re really pretty, but….
Columns offers a firm welcome handshake to Chairy Girl, mastermind behind Maketh Me Swoon. In this episode, we see the awkward dumping spiel, awkwardly delivered via email. This is gonna be good.
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