Unapologetically Mundane
Katie Ett
- Location
- Brooklyn, New York,
- Birthday
- October 09
- Bio
- I grew up on a farm in the middle of Ohio, which is pretty much the awesomest place in the world, so shut it. I graduated from THE Ohio State University with a degree in English and Creative Writing, which I’m not wholly pleased with, ’cause it means that no one will be surprised once I hit the bigtime. And I’m gonna hit the bigtime, believeyoume.
I moved to Manhattan in July of 2005 to live in this gigantic apartment in the West Village with the boyfriend I’d met my junior year of college. He’d come here a year before I did to get his graduate degree in film studies from NYU, which I thought was insanely hot. We moved to a tiny studio on 8th Ave. in Chelsea and bragged about the fact that we were spending $1800 a month for one room, because laughing about it made it hurt less. We spent everything we earned on frozen hot chocolate, horrible horror and excellent indie movies, and The Greatest Turkeyburgers in the Entire World™ at the famous Cozy Soup’n'Burger. And then he decided that he hated it here and left me a quivering, lonely mess of an ex-girlfriend.
That’s a joke.
I lived with my friend Meredith in Prospect Heights for a couple of weeks after he went home until I found a Park Slope sublet with a girl named Magali and a pitbull named Balthazar. I literally had the biggest bedroom in all of the state of New York, I’m convinced. My landlord soon decided that he only wanted investment bankers and their yogamom wives living in his building, though, so I moved myself into a 2-bedroom in Williamsburg with my hipster friend Wen on November 1st, and if I forget for a moment that the L train sort of only runs when it feels like it, I couldn’t be happier. I’m accidentally working at a software company in Battery Park, where I started as a temp when I needed to make some money before moving home at the end of summer ‘06. But then I didn’t move, and now I can’t leave the company because I love my co-workers too much. And because my boss doesn’t seem to mind that I sit around working on my blog all day.
As of September 14th, 2006, I’m dating a boy named Kamran who has a Ph.D. in physics from Princeton and now works in intellectual property law while attending law school at night; I only tell you that because he’s not capable of bragging about himself. I sort of can’t imagine New York without him, and if you read this blog enough, neither will you.
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Katie Ett's Links
My Incredible Blog Celebrity Pays Off with a Chance to Gamble Away My Life Savings
I know you thought my blogs were totally useless, but because of one of these Internet gems, Greyhound has invited me (and a guest!) to take a trip to Atlantic City today to try out their new fleet of buses equipped with amenities like wi-fi, electrical outlets, and additional legroom that… Read full post »
How Do You Deal with Jerks on the Train?
When I got on the train this morning, I walked past the jerk standing in the doorway and moved to the center of the car like good girls do. I immediately regretted it, because immediately behind me was a woman about my age with an obnoxiously puffy coat and a cellphone… Read full post »
The Public Nature of Grieving in the City
The other day, my friend Nik told me the story of a crying woman on the 4/5 train who, it became apparent as she sobbed to a friend, was on her way downtown to identify the body of a loved one who had overdosed. It seemed that she had found out… Read full post »
I wanted Kim to put a Boston-Irish beatdown on him, but then I remembered she’s Jewish.
I hate to post my own crap when I haven’t read anyone else’s blog in, like, a week, but I have to tell you this ridiculous story:
My friend Kim was in town from Boston this weekend and took me to the Fashion District on the west side of Midtown to… Read full post »
Materialistic and Proud of It
You know when you get gifts from people that prove they really, really know you? And not only know you but actually get you and possibly even don’t mind you? Here are a few that I received at the end of the year that made me go, “Oh, crap,… Read full post »
wd-50: Proof That All Great Meals Need Not Involve Bacon
Not to toot my own horn or anything, but Wylie’s cooking and my camera make a pretty good team on donuts4dinner.
Check it out if you like food that looks nothing like it does in nature, food that costs more than your monthly rent, or chefs made famous by being “Top… Read full post »
I Might Have Been Wrong About Twitter
So, this Twitter thing is sort of over, huh? After talking about it for weeks, my best friend, Tracey, convinced me to join last week so we won’t become those old ladies who wear Winnie the Pooh t-shirts, still listen to Poison, and are afraid of the Internet.… Read full post »
Only in NYC
Only in NYC would I need my friend Beth to pick me up after work last Friday and drive me to my apartment with my new TV that should have been small enough to carry but would’ve taken up an entire subway car with all of its packaging. Only in… Read full post »
Even in New York City, People are Nice to You When You Vomit
Two days ago, I was on the green line express to Grand Central on my way home from work, leaning against the doorway as I meticulously typed a blog post about my newfound (and belated) love for Band of Horses on my BlackBerry, when a woman a foot away from me… Read full post »
An Education, and Why I’m Sad to Be a Grownup
Maybe it’s inappropriate to start off the new year with ruminations on pedophilia, but while I was in Ohio for Christmas, my best friend, Tracey, and her friend Kim were in the midst of seeing all of this year’s potentially-Oscar-nominated films, and I tagged along to see An Education wit… Read full post »
Why Yesterday was the Best
1) I spent the night with my best friend, Tracey, as I will do nine out of the thirteen days I’m in Ohio, and as she was dropping me off at my parents’ house yesterday morning, one local radio station played Soundgarden’s “Blow Up the Outside World”, and another played G… Read full post »
Modern Modes of Transportation are Only Cool When They Actually Work, or Why I Should Have Never Left Ohio in the First Place
I bought a plane ticket to Ohio for two weeks’ worth of Christmas presents, Christmas parties, and Christmas-themed desserts at chain restaurants several weeks ago for $291.90. The night before the snowstorm hit, Delta canceled my flight but politely allowed me to reschedule myself for the nex… Read full post »
Santa Claws
My friend Roy sent me a link to Sketchy Santas yesterday, and while I appreciate their offerings, I think I have a photo of the sketchiest Santa of all:
Tracey may be smiling here, but not ten seconds before, she was crying out in horror from her car at… Read full post »
It Really Helps with the Whole Guilty Conscience Thing When You Don’t Consider Babies Human
I don’t remember when I decided I was pro-choice, but I remember distinctly that I was still calling myself a Christian when I did. (Realizing that God and I basically didn’t share any common viewpoints is one of the reasons I’m not a Christian today.) I understand that abortion is… Read full post »
A Little Xenophobic Cheer for the Holidays
It’s the time of year when NYC is overrun with tourists who are somehow under the impression that the city in winter is worth spending $350 per night for a hotel on. The Rockefeller Center tree lighting, the display windows at Macy’s, the New Year’s Eve celebration in Times Square  Read full post »
Less Blogging, More Work
My four favourite blog posts from the past week:
1) Amy doesn’t need to douche from Unapologetically Female.
2) How to be, like, a real writer from Bachelor Girl.
3) An animal body to keep you warm at night from Belly Shirts.
4) Who brought this guy? from Awkward Family Photos.… Read full post »
Hey, not to make matters worse, but seriously, keep your hair off my toilet seat in the future.
You may remember that fateful day a year ago in which I went to my favourite bathroom stall at work to find
THE LARGEST PUBIC HAIR IN EXISTENCE.
Well, today, I came out of my stall, and as I was washing my hands, a black woman from the office next… Read full post »
Keep a Little Memory of Your Pet with You All of the Time . . . by Beheading It and Stringing It on a Necklace
My best friend, Tracey, sent me a link this morning to a Craftzine blog post showcasing a necklace made from a dead bird’s head. My immediate reaction was along the lines of, “Cool! I’d buy that and love it and wear it every day if it wasn’t $350.”
When… Read full post »
Cry Baby
It may have been that I was overwhelmed by the joy I was feeling just from being in Ohio, but the following two things made me cry for no good reason last week:
1) The scene in “Glee” when the kids from the deaf school perform John Lennon’s “Imagine”. I… Read full post »
10 Things I Try Not to Take for Granted
Every Thanksgiving, my stepmother-who-I’ve-known-my-whole-life-and-think-is-the-best-possible-stand-in-for-my-actual-mother-who-died-of-brain-cancer-in-2000 puts pieces of dried corn next to each person’s plate at the dinner table and tells us we have to give thanks for one thing for ever… Read full post »
Circleville Pumpkin Show 2009
I went home to Ohio last month for
which is a five-day street fair in a town ten minutes away from where I grew up, beloved by the world and chock full of country charm such as
the belief that pumpkin-related foods are entertainment,
so many effin’… Read full post »
Photodump Part 2
The
Pool Party on the Williamsburg waterfront this summer with
Dirty Projectors.
The view down a lonely Williamsburg street at the last rooftop
party of the summer.
Emily brings her hypoallergenic Yorkiepoo to work, and I convince
Jack to stick him in the fridge. Emily is not… Read full post »
New York Magazine’s Brooklyn Top 40
This weekend, instead of properly paying attention to me, Kamran combed YouTube for all of the songs listed in New York magazine’s Brooklyn Top 40, the top 40 songs coming out of Brooklyn and defining what it means to be indie right now. He made a playlist of them, which… Read full post »
You Don’t Freakin’ Know Me, Wii Fit
Yesterday, as Kamran was doing his Body Test on our Wii Fit, the little Wii Fit Board icon thing with the unexplainable baby voice decided to take a detour and asked him how I was doing. Then, it asked him to select whether I looked lighter, heavier, or the same… Read full post »
Won’t You Be My Neighbor
Last week’s New York magazine had the most interesting article about a co-housing community trying to plant roots in Brooklyn. The idea is that they’ll buy an abandoned factory or warehouse, fit it with something like 30 apartments, and include huge common areas where people can gather.… Read full post »
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