Alicia Freeman is a graduate student and Mustang Daily poetry contributor. *A Zombie Interlude* Watch me carve our names Into that graffitied bench (or that dancing hobo’s neck.) Sometimes when I think of life, I think it’s all an apocalypse…
Your ex and your best friend: A jealousy-inducing combination
Alicia Freeman is an English senior and Mustang Daily relationship advice columnist. I hope everyone out there experienced a joyful and gut-busting Thanksgiving, free from past and new relationship drama, as well as a nice vacation from the stress of…
Do's and don'ts for meeting the family
Alicia Freeman is an English senior and Mustang Daily relationship columnist. The holidays return again. The Christmas decorations invade the spaces that once held Halloween costumes and no Thanksgiving decorations. (Christmas seems to be the self-involved holiday bully: it always…
Does your mom take this man to be your husband?
Alicia Freeman is an English senior and Mustang Daily relationship advice columnist. My mom is pushing me to marry an engineer. She says that way I will have some kind of financial security. I guess Cal Poly is a good…
Long-distance relationships: Romantic or doomed?
Alicia Freeman is an English junior and Mustang Daily relationship advice columnist. Readers can contact her at aliciafreeman.md@gmail.com. “I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair. Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.” As an English major, I like…
How to deal with a friend's annoying guy
Alicia Freeman is an English senior and Mustang Daily relationship advice columnist. “Spontaneous overflow of emotion” last week, huh? (Haha, English major joke.) I realize in an effort to share my own experiences to say, “Hey, we’re all human, and…
When talking it out makes it worse
Alicia Freeman is an English senior and Mustang Daily relationship advice columnist. As an eccentric personality, I accept I may be the only person who enjoys my jokes. I also accept, in general, I am a bit awkwardly weird. In…
Flirting with food-workers and other misadventures
I have a weird attraction to men who work behind a counter and wear a goofy uniform (though, the lack of said goofy uniform is not a deal breaker). I suppose it’s because I have always worked behind a counter…
Jealousy: A double-edged sword
I hate couples. I hate their happiness, I hate the way they hold hands and I especially hate how they rub their non-singledom in my — and other singles’ — face. Even when I was a member of a couple,…
Adding a realistic twist to the classic "Notebook" fantasy
Alicia Freeman is an English senior and relationship advice columnist for the Mustang Daily. In an English class a few quarters ago, more than one of my female peers said “The Notebook” was their favorite movie, and for those that…
Cal Poly: After the assaults
In the wake of a spring quarter marred by sexual assault, the question of how to safely pursue sex and alcohol in college life was asked at the end of spring quarter. It is a question that will continue to…