who we were.

currently paranoid about...

people logging off of kazaa lite k++ which would slow down my getting this movie (the two towers...i am so trying to be proud of this)!

today was pretty...interesting. i nearly cried at work today at the very end since it was my last day...ridiculous as i think about it, but i'm over-emotional and also my boss cried (not at ALL because i was leaving although that probably was a bit of a stressor) so i felt a bit better about it. i guess...the highlights would be that:

• the three "ladies" at work paid for me to get my nails done in lieu of the more traditional "lunch"


• i once again got sort of offered a job. and 0.5 + 0.5 = 1!


• i ran all these errands, including going to buddakan and this wonderful cake shop around the corner


• the j. crew seersucker pants, even in petite, looked terrible on me. i was kind of happy about it!


• i talked to jamie on the phone, which i haven't done in like...years and years. maybe we'll see each other in dc tomorrow if i do go

i guess it's been a long time since people have been at all impressed by me, if they ever were. and i think i'd totallly forgotten what it means to be appreciated. or to have your hard work appreciated. i think i found a work ethic this summer. what can beat that?

my new body shop purchase which is quietly fragrancing my room with "mandarin peel". and now, my french manicure. it looks great!

dinosaur jr.

sometimes i wonder about band names. never having been part of the band other than the inertia-fated KJC. similarly i was completely taken aback while reading my vault guide to marketing/brand mgmt. oh god. i can't really think of anything. fear grips me..."the mind boggles," as an adviser told me today.

today was great in some ways, i guess...a continuation of last night, when we (sonance) played in rittenhouse square as part of the philly weekly's outdoor music series. v and i went to the AFTERPARTY (ouais c'est vrai) and had so many drinks - multiple cosmos and some sour thing and veronica's g'diva cappuccino martini. it was talkative fun and talking to our patrons and waiter was a really good time. ("jeffrey!") plus, we got free black baby ts. that, to match the $11 black sandals and ridiculous hat that i had bought earlier that afternoon :^D today i didn't wake up on time at all despite now having both my alarm clock and my phone alarm on (too lazy to change...what is this life!?) the work day was actually pretty good, even though i just realized now that i need to write a note to maria, who i'm not going to see because she won't be in tomorrow...and probably to my boss as well. work got so much better as i got more 1) tolerant, 2) patient, 3) self-sufficient/prescient about what was needed. there are a few things that i worry about but other than that. no matter what else has changed, i get real bitchy to people who i don't understand. that's a problem (again, reading the vault guides...good/bad). also today, i found out that indeed they are hiring a new person at my agency and that if i were graduating in any sense of the word, that i could be that person. it's strange that i should find that out on the 2nd to last day of work. also that i do, maybe maybe, have a chance at doing some sort of travel or study after i graduate. but also today, i finally presented the database and i think that i did a good job with it, although i'm still pondering how on earth it could've been made simpler. perhaps no way but i'm not ACTUALLY an expert on access so who knows. no doubt i'm missing something crucial. what else is new?

things which remain to be shopped for: a skirt suit, nice girly buttondown shirts, THE ribbon necklace (waiting like a hawk for a sale), cute print skirts (ah for the end of the summer), a cute jacket. more room decor. and...always some socks.

the cutest dogs are in my house but my mp3 player and outlook are broken. tonight i actually watched the premiere/2nd episode (couldn't really tell b/c i was flipping channels) of oc...like, for instance, belle and sebastian or my morning jacket, something which i was peripherally aware of, felt a bizarre tie to, and might get into. this is so not me. but i never ever watched any of that 90210-y stuff back in the day, as i was usually studying or reading.

shopped out

speaking of dem financials...oof. yesterday sarama came to philly (YAY!) and we umm went to franklin mills. funny at first because we went the complete "wrong way" i.e. towards the terrible, asian-owned mall shops, and NOT towards the bebe/lvlx side. (omg lvlx). it was funny, because i haven't shopped with a posse in kind of a long time (i guess DC in the beginning of the summer?), and i went crazy. on my bed waiting for first home try on are:

• bebe (marc jacobs ripoff) sea-green miniskirt


• bebe (totally generic) chiffon + slip black sparkly dress


• banana (every girl needs one) black nylon tote with leather straps


• lvlx (omg lvlx) halter top which is teal and hot pink


• lvlx (omg lvlx) slutty pleated miniskirt which is green and hot pink plaid


• benetton (duh, it's me and sara ma) long cord skirt


• benetton (duh, it's me and sara ma) dark grey peasant blouse with silkscreened white design

and a rug from bed bath and beyond. i don't even want to dig through the pile and see if that is it. oh goodness. but "i sweaaaar" it was all super super cheap. i don't think i spent above $150. i could not resist. this is also not counting the lvlx dress that i bought, rethought, and sold to christina on the spot. teehee!

lots of things in my mind...job stuff life stuff room stuff body stuff.

i've woken up at exactly 10:30 today and yesterday, which is so strange! i guess it's when the sun is absolutely so demanding i can't not wake up, despite the delicioso REM dreams i've been having...about shopping, and luckiness. two days ago (being meticulous) we went to the ritz' "chocolate buffet", a fortunate misnomer because there was much more than juss' chocolate. teehee there was also a waiter named oakland who hit on kristin like there was no tomorrow :^D