Victoria Ilyinsky

This Word is Killing Me, Literally

By Victoria Ilyinsky October 30, 2006

EDITOR'S NOTE APPENDED You can’t help but notice that the new “like” is the word “literally.” Bothering parents and professors

By Victoria Ilyinsky October 02, 2006

“Going out?” That’s out of touch. “Getting wasted?” Waste of breath. If it’s Friday night (or Thursday, Wednesday, Tuesday for

By Victoria Ilyinsky January 18, 2006

Single sex schools have always made me nervous and I’m historically not a fan of female-only anything. Women slap, we

By Victoria Ilyinsky December 08, 2005

I don’t like to grind. Neither do I really enjoy “bumping” with boys on the dance-floor. Of course there have

By Victoria Ilyinsky November 17, 2005

The women in my family dispense advice faster than I can nick a pair of pointy black heels. Ironically, these

By Victoria Ilyinsky November 03, 2005

We all know opposites attract, and for good girls everywhere this spells trouble. As a stranger to suspensions and the

By Victoria Ilyinsky October 20, 2005

Editors' note appended. Please see below. Crack, flop, hit, nuts, pot-committed. Limp, leak, house, draw, gun-shot straight. It’s not spoken

By Victoria Ilyinsky October 06, 2005

I’ll be a 21-year-old bridesmaid next summer. Twice. And not for an older sister, thrice divorced aunt, or former babysitter