Best of 2014

MOVIES

Drinking Buddies

Frozen

Short Term 12

Don Jon

First Position

The Normal Heart

Maleficent

Enough Said

Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me

Obvious Child

Wish I Was Here

Guardians of the Galaxy

The Fault in Our Stars

Much Ado About Nothing (2012)

Gone Girl

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1

BOOKS

blink by Malcolm Gladwell

Looking for Alaska by John Green

Like No Other by Una LaMarche

Not That Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham

The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan

Althea and Oliver by Cristina Moracho

I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson

Yes Please by Amy Poehler

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

MUSIC

Love in the Future by John Legend, especially “All of Me”

“Do What U Want” by Lady Gaga featuring R. Kelly

 “Dark Horse” by Katy Perry

Nirvana and In the Lonely Hour by Sam Smith

 “Not a Bad Thing” by Justin Timberlake

1000 Forms of Fear by Sia

“Rip Tide” by Vance Joy

“Something I Need” by One Republic

“Rather Be” by Clean Bandit feat. Jess Glynne

 “Girls Chase Boys” by Ingrid Michaelson

Make a Move by Gavin Degraw

1989 by Taylor Swift

"Take Me to Church" by Hozier

Beyonce Platinum Edition

THEATER

Witness Uganda at American Repertory Theater

Finding Neverland at American Repertory Theater

Matlida at the Shubert Theatre

Here's to a happy and prosperous new year!

Thanks for reading!

Overheard at Work, vol. CXI

What can I say?

Two weeks from today, and I'll be heading into 12 days off.

TWELVE.

Needless to say, the holiday crunch is upon us and the countdown is on.

Colleague A: I am the queen of the back comb. I should be from New Jersey.

Me: What if I bit you?
7 year old boy: Then I would go and get a shark to bite your whole body.

7 year old boy: You've got comfortable hair. I could sleep on it.

Teen, to Colleague B, calling through a window, to where she was sitting alone: You in a meeting? You in a meeting with God or something?

15 year old girl: Where's my sister? Where are you keeping her?