Welcome to the Jungle.

I guess I will be the first to say, welcome to our blog. Jess and I are two crazy, 20 something ,BBW, Black women who are attempting to live the big city life, while working at progressive/politic non-profit organizations. We started this blog because we both have really wild life situations that we wanted to document, but we are also dangerously cool, have great friend, and we wanted to gloat on the fact that we like really good music and that we are sexy and amazing.

I am sure that if you become a regular follower of our blog, you will come to realize that we are both wild as hell, but we have good intentions. Jess lives in New York City. I, Carmen, live in DC and yet we still manage to have equally wild experiences. From taxi cab sexual harassment to old bitches fighting on the bus, you never know what a day in the life of one of us will bring. Please feel free to comment and add to our blog, because we are like a community bicycle, everyone can get a ride.

There is a little history behind our friendship that I feel is necessary to document for the sake of understanding our relationship. We met through this cult, eh eh, organization, the United States Student Association about 3 or 4 years ago... I mean who is counting... okay I am... 3 years and 9 months. I remember the first time I saw her, we were at a conference in DC. It was March and she had on a skirt with leg warmers, being that she was from California and I am from Pittsburgh, PA, I immediately judged her. I thought what the fuck is she wearing? But as the years went on, I came to except Jessica's unique style and soon learned to embrace the fact that Jessica does not look like any one else, ever, she has her own style which is important in a world where people are striving to look like everybody else. When she started working at USSA as a staffer and I was still a student, somehow she was sent to my school to be our vote organizer, which might I add was a mistake and a blessing. A mistake because, well it was tragic, but a blessing because we became best friends. Over time, I started working at USSA and Jess and I had the priviledge of being best friends who worked in the same office. Everyday, I thank God that our friendship was able to make it through USSA, I mean we had some rough spots, some girl fights, some fucked up back stabbing moments, but we made it. Sushi, purses, Rainbow, liquor, airplanes, cars, Go-Go clubs, PG Plaza Mall, Metro are all words to describe our time together in DC. Jess helped bring out my fun side and I am her voice of reason. We just work. Even though we are different in many ways. She is vanilla and I am chocolate. She likes mayonaise, I think she is disgusiting. It works.

Jess just moved to NYC, which I cried and bitched about for about 2 months and I am still crying and bitching about, but we still try to keep our friendship intact becuase it's important. And I think that is the lesson for this post. It is really important to have a good girl friend. I think alot of women can't have girlfriends because they are too busy stabbing each other in the back and no doubt, we had a period like that. But, I think that at the end of the day, everyone needs a girl friend that they love and trust, who will call them on their shit and tell them they look beautiful. Jess calls it a sister girlfriend. I just call it a best friend. So cheers to Jess and to me, for sticking through it and welcome to our world.

It's fucked up, but at least it's comical.

Love, Peace and Hair Grease,
Spin D