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hello lovelies,

so i've wanted to start a blog since i got to dc, to help entertain myself during my period of unemployment...but i suffered from severe writers block when it came to the first crucial step of coming up with the absolute perfect name. i'm not sure if i totally found it, but this is gonna have to do for now. dissonant cognition is a conjugation of the phrase cognitive dissonance, which is something i experience from time to time (and may in fact write about on this very blog someday). and i now live in the district of columbia, so you know...DisCoInDisCo. it's kind of clever.

the genesis of this blog was jumpstarted by one of my bffls, who inspired me by starting her own blog largely about the neighborhood i just moved into. i'm a volunteer participant ethnographer for her.

another primary factor inspiring my first post is the current absence of my roommate and better half miranda, who is visiting her boyfriend (and our soon-to-be-third-roommate) in chicago. this occurrence has indirectly led to me not having plans this friday night. i say "indirectly" because i do have other friends here, i swear, but i don't have automatic-friday-night-friends yet and, lucky for you, i didn't really plan ahead.

finally--i dedicate this post to insomnia.

stay tuned for next time, when i problematize the phenomenon of people who consider themselves socially conscious/aware claiming to watch bad reality tv "ironically," or "to problematize it." and by people, i mostly mean myself and several of my closest friends.

peace darlings