lady gaga's wearing my glasses!

Behold!
























I mean really Gaga, at first it was cute, but you should *really* try to find your own, unique style.

Kiddingggg!

people i apparently look like part 2!

I saw an ad with a bunch of hipster kids running around a Polaroid crayon-colored world with white letters being scrawled everywhere. Tired sayings like "don't settle" and "stand out" and "do your own thing goshdarnit." Can you guess what it's an ad for?

MAYONNAISE.

Hey kids, stand out by eating bland egg-flavored crap that your mom's been putting on your sandwiches for years.

I need some cheeriness today. Thanksgiving came and went so quickly and, while delicious, the Tryptophan hangover is always a bit of a downer. Soooo yeah. Everyone's starting to hang Christmas lights over their balconies, so everything is pretty and festive.. I love that.

Oh! And now it's time for..

People I Apparently Look Like, Part II!

Eva Green!






































Cooool. A bunch of people have told me this, even though I have a hard time seeing it sometimes. I guess maybe in the eyes? Maybe I should grow my hair back out :-P Anyway, love to you on this Sunday! xx

sunday lovely sunday

Hi my loves! I'm trying posting on Facebook now, so bear with me while I try figuring out how this works. How are you doing today? This weekend was so much fun, went shopping in Friendship Heights with Mike Cowhand yesterday, and had some fun in Chinatown in the evening time. Rocket Bar is so awesome. They played Bad Romance twice, once while Heather, Jacob and I owned some randoms in shuffleboard. I'm aware that I sound 80 years old.

Anyway! I've spent today being totally lazy (glorious) and looking at the site WeHeartIt.com. Found some super amazing photographs, so thought I'd share them with you. Here's a few of what I personally "heart":
1.) crazy zexxy parties


































2.) crazy zexxy coffeee!

















3.) leggings! i want these!

















4.) Gaga of course.. she looked like Predator tonight at the AMA's! <333 onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh3kCi2S5hsLnofS2l7uFm5EQf4Se3Rsk7oyrcygLucetmIltyX5i_aoHSPk84lJ5iqosEJp2CI2Fg1sxZYN5JVBIyWASuCnIQU_-TM4XkRhwoG5w6vO3M7KmZ4i81BY9KOGr4c0kqHhM/s1600/tumblr_kt2h1u65YQ1qza4gto1_500_large.jpg">

5.) jane birkin.. i basically want to be her. her life and style are amazing, and she had the hottest relationship ever..























































































6.) and last but not least... KITTEN MITTENS!

















































always sunny might be the funniest show ever.

Hope you all have had a marvelous weekend! I'm off to dream land. Night!

people i apparently look like, part one:

david sylvian

super trippy 80's musician dude. yes, dude.

dude.

Happy Halloween! Heather carved a pumpkin and is roasting the seeds. The apartment smells AMAZING. She's so awesome at this kind of stuff.

We went to the zoo last night!! But the pandas were sleeping :( It was "Night of the Living Zoo" with a costume party and stuff.. I was gonna go as Lady Gaga, but the wig I ordered was beyond awful, so....

Twiggy it was! Thank goodness for short hair and vintage dresses! On the left is my lovely Newsie roomie. I wanted to steal her hat and run home with it! But she knows where I live...

There are a couple more parties tonight.. I might wear another dress and do a bit more elaborate Twiggy-ish makeup.. I think I did well though, considering I changed my costume in 5 minutes yesterday.

YUM the pumpkin seeds are done and delicious. Catch ya later! Love!

For lack of my own creative thinking, I'd like to cite something cool and inspiring. Leave it to the NY Times to provide just that with an article on Coco Chanel as a "post-feminist." Whatever that even means.. I just thought she was fantastic, and this quote in particular resonated with me:

“She never knows what is going to happen next and she has no protection, so she must fight against her destiny and create a new way not just to dress, but to be.”

Wow, you mean even the most fabulous woman ever had to fight tooth and nail to get there? Well then surely anyone can do the same, right?

In other news, my new job is great! My boss is a little crazy, but some of the people who come in are fantastic. The other night a lady dropped $600 on stuff she'd be wearing on a trip to New York City, and guess who gets comission! *ding ding ding me!*)

I'm also inspired today by the unabashed off-the-wall-ness of quirky London fashion, courtesy of one of my *favorite* blogs, The Sartorialist. No regard for convention, how things are "supposed to look" in order to look good. It's crazy, and crazy refreshing.

I think my favorite part of this is the leggings. So unique! And I didn't know you could layer leggings! What will they think to layer next! Bras? Shoes? They already got to everything else!

Anyway, in my own bout of craziness, I purchased the following:

I love it.. but hope it doesn't make me look like I'm wearing a Halloween costume.. I'll let you know when I try it out!

Hrm Hrm... That's all for now.. Love you all!

I love The Stranger. I wish there was a newspaper in DC that was cool enough to make compelling stories out of ideas that aren't really news. And no, I'm sorry, The Washington City Paper doesn't count, even though it has Dan Savage too. It's just not the same.

Anyway, they had a cool article today. And I wanted to share it. It's from an article entitled "How to Be a Person Who Isn't a Failure," and you can read it in full right here.

"How to Be an Artist

Have an idea. You can't just make something pretty. You also can't make the same thing year after year and call yourself an artist, unless you are boring down into that thing and getting lost in it to such an extent that you keep finding new sedimentary layers that blow your mind and the minds of people who don't even know you (for an example of this style of career, consider Jeffrey Simmons).

Look at the artists who are important in Seattle and in the world (look, look, look; read, read, read), and figure out what you really think about them, not just what other people tell you to think (also note: If you hate a thing other people love merely because other people love it, then you are not gaining any freedom or building any intelligence).

Allow for a certain amount of snottiness in general, because artists are misfits in American culture and occasionally need a certain amount of snottiness just to survive their mostly moneyless, vulnerable lives that are looked upon with universal suspicion. Plainly, your work has to make sense and also has to be irreducibly mysterious in some (even slight) way. If you understand it completely, it may not be worth doing.

As for fashion, wear what you actually want to wear; fuck trends, because it won't matter anyway. If your work is amazing, you are an amazing artist, even if you dress like a goth. (But must you?)"

Have a happy Monday!

Oh my gosh, I'm excited today! A couple days ago I started putting my writing on Helium.com, and Through the Rip Hole Down has been rated #1 in its category! Out of 47!

I.. did not see this happening. When I first tried to post it they pulled it off because of swearing. But apparently if you clean it, they will come! *happy dance* Have a lovely Wednesday!

oh. my. god.

i love you.

Infinite Jest status: 1079 out of 1079

I finished your book on the day you died.

It is a literary trainwreck, a failed entertainment, but that's exactly what he wanted.

none of this makes sense

I like weird foods. Like:

-Tofu
-Beets
-Chickpeas
-Avocado (I guess that's not that weird)
-Cottage Cheese (<3333 for life)
-Artichoke hearts
-Cyanide*

The only food I don't really like are olives. So no dirty martinis for me. *tears*

Today at work someone called in and she asked to be transferred. The extension was busy. When I came back to the original line to tell her, a MAN answered instead. WHAT THE FUCK.**

Infinite Jest status: 850 out of 1079. ***

I did the math earlier, and the footnotes of this book make up about 100 pages. I have 2 left. The book itself is about 983 pages. And I'm on 850. Holy crap. The end is closer than originally expected.

And I can safely say this is one of my favorite books ever, though it is certainly not without its flaws.

Tea instead of coffee makes for a mellower Carrie Fab. I like that feeling.

So what's up with you guys? When are you gonna visit me? *bats lashes*

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*just kidding.
**unnecessary emotional escalation.
***end notes in memoriam of my beloved, DFW.

Oh man, I'm sorry, I haven't written in almost a month! The recent busy-ness in my life has been EPIC. But fun :) Here's a recap!

-Heather and I moved!!!!!!! And I lovvvvvvvvve our new apartment! It's right in the middle of a really fun, youthful, urban area, and I have to fight not to spend tons of money at all the local restaurants. Yesterday I went to Harris Teeter (or Harris Tweeter, as my mom thought it was called), and revelled in being around people MY OWN AGE. Even if a lot of them were yupsters. Whatevs.

-I got a new job!! Working at Pea in a Pod with Edom, selling designer maternity clothes. Insert Caroline-hates-children-and-this-is-therefore-ironic joke here. But the way I see it, if they're in the womb, and not making noise, that's fine by me.

And.. fingers crossed.. I'll be getting a new full time one... but shhhh

-I'm technically at work right now so I have to go but I love you all ahhhhh!

IJ status: 580 out of 1079. It's FINALLY getting more accessible.

Oh my gosh I had so much fun this weekend! Details as follows:

Friday:
Clarendon Ballroom! So fun! We literally danced for hours. And avoided random drunkies who kept saying "Eyyyy we went to UVAAAAA!" Good friends, good whiskey, and gooood music, topped off with drunken IHOP! <333

Saturday:
Partyyy at Mike's apartment! Oh gosh that was fun. Everybody wore all white, and had to bring a bottle of champagne, and there was white sangria! And bread pudding! Random but delicious! Mike and I came back and flopped on his couches, and were talking, and I guess in mid-sentence we passed out because all of a sudden it was 6 am and I was covered in a big blanket. Such a fun night! I'm so glad he'll be in DC!

Oh gosh.. this weekend is the big move to Ballston.. I can't wait! Until then gotta save up dem moneys. Love love!

Daily Inspiration

I love you Katherine Hepburn.

I want a man who dresses like this

i'm in love with this dude and his fashion sense.

Happy Friday! I'm going to a rooftop party this weekend. Tres exciting. I need fun times.

love you all!

Hey cool cats and kiddies.

I haven't written in a while! Let's see.. I just got back from vacation in West Virginia with my family (aka the Dirty Dancing place where my parents met). It was perfect. That's all I can say. It made it impossible to come back to work, but it was perfect.

Does anyone know anything about NaNoWriMo? I've heard stuff about it, but never really done it. Anyway there's apparently a more lax one you can do in August (AugNoWriMo.. sounds like a weird disease), and I need some inspiration so I think I'm gonna do it.. There have been a few ideas bouncing around in this old noggin, and I've never written a book, so who knows what'll happen. Plus I like the idea of "total literary abandon." Maybe that'll be a good change from the rigor of crazy fiction workshops.

Infinite Jest status: 450 out of 1079. I'm tryinggg to keep up with the syllabus on InfiniteSummer.org, but that can be tough.. like when one has no time to read, and is peering into the abyss of a 14 page footnote (with its own endnotes). But I've grown fond of those nutty Incandenzas so I'll keep on rocking.

What's going on with you guys? Anything fun? <3 you all!

"I think one of the true ways I've gotten smarter is that I've realized that there are ways other people are a lot smarter than me. My biggest asset as a writer is that I'm pretty much like everybody else. The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever almost made me die." -DFW

The original title was A Failed Entertainment, and the book is structured as an entertainment that doesn't work

For whatever reason, the call volume's low today at Freddie. So I'm reading an article that's almost made me cry.

The Lost Years and Last Days of David Foster Wallace: Rolling Stone

In related news, IJ status: 343 out of 1079. I must triumph!

Tomorrow I get to see my family! Going over to Capon Springs, WV, where my parents' families meet up every year to chillax for a week. My parents met there, so it's very Dirty Dancing.

I'm looking majorly forward to seeing everyone, as well as lying by a pool, getting tan and *trying* to make a dent in DFW. Good week :)

How are you guys doing?

In other news..

I'm so pissed off about Playboy buying Nabokov's last manuscript I could scream.

It was his DYING WISH not to have it see the light of day. Fuck you Hugh Hefner!

Okay maybe it's more his son's fault for selling it, but still.

Happy Friday!

Quote of the Day

"One of the most powerful lessons I learned growing up in a semi-rural suburb...is that celebrities—and especially great writers, who to me were the most magical possible subclass of celebrity—were totally unreal super-beings with whom you had literally nothing in common.

"All authors existed in a Platonic fourth dimension of abstract verbal perfection (sometimes called “France” or “Russia”) where they never had to put up with subliterary indignities like being vomited on by carsick siblings or having their off-brand shoes mocked by bullies—and if they did suffer such things it would only have been by choice, as an experiment, so they could write prizewinning literature about it later.

"It was a big shock, then, to grow up and discover that this was not actually true."

-Sam Anderson, Nymag.com

Infinite Jest-isms

Ughhhh Infinite Jest was SO amazing today! I have to share with you some of my favorite lines:

-"If..you ever chance to spend a little time around a Substance-recovery halfway facility... you will acquire many exotic new facts."

• "That certain persons simply will not like you no matter what you do."
• "That no matter how smart you thought you were, you are actually way less smart than that."
• "That you do not have to like a person in order to learn from him/her/it."
• "That loneliness is not a function of solitude."
• "That sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place and, like, hurt."
• "That you will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do."
• "That there is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness."
• "That it is possible to fall asleep during an anxiety attack."
• "That most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking."
• "That no single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable."
• "That if you do something nice for somebody, in secret, anonymously, without letting the person you did it for know it was you or anybody else know what it was you did or in any way or form trying to get credit for it, it's almost its own form of intoxicating buzz."
• "That there may not be angels, but there are people who might as well be angels."
• "That God might regard the issue of whether you believe there's a God or not as fairly low on his/her/its list of thing s/he/it's interested in re you."

Just.... wow.

<3333

Things I Love (mainly all music)

Hi everybodyyy! It's been a while, I know. Things at the Mac are pretty good, and I have the day off! Yay for holidays! In celebration, I have spent most of the day sleeping and watching music vids on youtube. Here are my three favorites!

Bat for Lashes- Moon and Moon
This is the perfect band to listen to while trying to fall asleep, and everything about this performance is perfect. It's insanely haunting, and her outfit is unreal (I love the huge collar and all the glitter!)

Animal Collective- My Girls
FAVORITE band right now. They are so freaking eccentric, and I love them for it. Their newest album takes that trippy feeling and makes it feel happier and more mellow, kind of like Pet Sounds on even *more* drugs. It's kind of a refreshing change- their last album was probably the musical version of a bad LSD trip.

Fiona Apple- Not About Love
Because she's amazing, and ZACH GALIFIANAKIS IS IN THE VIDEO OMG. Everybody needs to see the hangover.

Infinite Jest status 180 out of 1079! I'm gonna finish this book on the 12th of forever! Weeee!

What are you all up to? :)

Why I Hate the New Coldplay Video

Yesterday I started Infinite Jest.

There are tons of more impressive-sounding phrases I could use to say that. And that book deserves them all. But its worthy of so many of them, thousands and thousands of them, that after a certain number, the grandeur cancels itself out and is rendered meaningless. So I'll just state the (most) obvious- It's fuckin awesome.

Status: page 30 out of 1079. Go team.

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This weekend has been ludicrously awesome. That's all I have to say about that.
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I hate the new Coldplay video for Life in Technicolor. Which makes me very sad because it used to be my favorite off that album. And I tried, really *tried* to like it. But the following could not be ignored:

a) The freaking CHEESY new lyrics for a song that was perfectly gorgeous as an instrumental.

b) That they were trying way too gosh-darn hard to be whimsical.

The video starts off with a cute little British family throwing a birthday party, just after everybody's gathered around for a Punch and Judy puppet show. There's (of course) a cute little British version of Olive Hoover, and she just happens to be carrying a fake Coldplay biography, called Playin it Cool (aw! look at us being punny!)

I was actually on board for this part. And for the next part, when the show started and miniature Coldplay gradually popped out from behind the curtain.

aww lookit'em.

I was expecting it to just be the instrumental, which would have been cool, to break music video rules and have a song (gasp) without singing. I knew Chris Martin would eventually pop out, and I was okay with the awkward puppet version spinning around like the human version usually does. And then he started singing.

And then he started flying.

And then the Punch and Judy stage expanded into an arena stage.

And then there were pyrotechnics and puppet Evel Knievels flying across the stage.

And then puppet Chris Martin started crowd-surfing.

And then puppet Coldplay flew out in a helicopter.

And then Caroline vommed.

Some things don't *need* all the remixes and bells and whistles and over-the-top-ness. This would have been a perfectly great video if it didn't try to top itself in EVERY SINGLE SECOND. It's frustrating too that so many people blindly love Coldplay now, and will thus blindly love this video.

*sigh*

Rant over.

I found a fun little meme thing to keep me occupied on this rainy day. If you are reading this, you are officially tagged. If you do not have a blog, put it in my comments, cuz I'm nosy :)

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What is your current obsession?
oh my goodness, i have a few. lady gaga. animal collective. putting hot cocoa powder in my coffee. david foster wallace.


What's for dinner?
pasta! i just need to decide what kind first.


What's the last thing you bought?

thanks modcloth :)


What are you listening to right now?
The last song on my ipod was Guest Room by the National

If you could go anywhere in the world for the next hour, where would you go?
i'd teleport to china, find jess harvey, and vent about the craziness in our lives. i miss her so much

What's your favorite quote (for now)?
I've got two...

"I find it so much easier to be creatively free at night. Daytime is for sleeping. Nighttime is the best time for making art. The later at night it gets the further into another world you go." - Mark Ryden

and..

"And day by day I filled my world with more words and more dreams and my heart became a place where I could escape to and talk to you (whoever you might turn out to be) and hold you close." -Rob Ryan


What's your favorite piece of clothing in your own wardrobe?
I love it all.. seriously.. although recently I've fallen back in love with my black nylons.

What's your dream job?
something with theatre or writing.. maybe like a creative writing professor

What's your worst habit?
I worry too much...

Do you admire anyones style?
I really really like Alexa Chung. And Raquel Zimmerman always looks fabulous. And Lady Gaga. Duh.

Describe your personal style?
Sort of a mod Twiggy hippie. Who showers.

What are your favorite movies?
The Royal Tenenbaums. Clockwork Orange. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. Anything else on my Facebook page.

What inspires you?
Love. Passion. Fearless quirkiness.

What's your favorite book?
The Broom of the System. Lolita. Lady Chatterley's Lover. I tend to like illicit classics :)

Do you collect something?
Random adventures

What do you like most about yourself?
that my imagination can be fucking crazy.

What's your go-to nail polish color?
none! naked nails babay!

Your turn :)

Good weekend. And this time I'm writing about it on a Sunday as opposed to a Tuesday. Also good.

There are a lot of things I'm excited about. And at the same time sooo much restlessness. I had a really good talk with my parents today though, and my dad launched into a "you're awesome and we're proud of you!" speech, which was surprising and nice.

Plenty more to talk about. How much time do you have?

It was an absolutely perfect weekend. Josh was here, the weather was loverly, and we saw PANDAS! And tigers and lions, both of which have awesome rars. Yes, rars. As in Rarrr!

This week's been pretty good, made better by the fact that it's short!

I can't think of much else to say. Lately I've been obsessed with Googling, ebaying, and salivating over vintage clothing, but not buying anything. I really am the cheapest person ever.

There are many things to look forward to :) Now back to work!

Oh my. So many little inspirations lately. Here are a few of them:

-this song by animal collective weirdness is so cool. and this is like, happy summery weirdness.
-FINALLY cleaning up all the scatterings of my room. I never realized how big it actually is when you can see the floor.
-Found the most AMAZING Tuscan Bread at Trader Joe's... to go with my new Hummus Quartet.. Addicted much? :-D
-Heather finally being back from her Michigan odyssey :) Now we're off to acquire Thai food yay!

Love love!

Yay for new layouts! I found this picture on bleubirdvintage.com and am more than a bit obsessed with it.

So no sleep + secondhand cigarette smoke = sick Caroline. But this weekend has been so much fun! I've been to a couple places that were way too fancy for me, and am now totally in love with the coffee shop Tryst. It's a cafe/restaurant/bar... it's its own entity.

I totally meant to be a clean freak and do laundry... It's not too late I guess. This is the best I've felt all day, so maybe I'm getting a second wind.

A friend of mine and I were randomly talking about the difference between extroverts and introverts. Yeah the obvious one is that an extro is implied to be outgoing and vice versa for intro, but it also has a lot to do with how you perceive things, and how your brain processes situations. Like, an introvert "thinks to talk" and an extrovert "talks to think."

I totally talk to think. Can you tell? :-P

Spontaneous end of post!

Do you think people are interesting based on the experiences they have? Or based on the entertainment value of their opinions on them?

This is the random shit I think about.

Life is so good and so busy. And everything is green.

Sunday was a rainy day, perfect for wandering around an art museum. So my parents and I wandered around the National Gallery for hours. It was sooo beautiful, inspiring, etc, and I took some snaps on my phone of some of my favorites.









The Repentant Magdalene. How haunting and gorgeous is this? It was perfectly framed in a doorway, and you just had to go towards it when you saw it. The skull (surprise) is symbolic of Christ, and its reflection is supposed to represent his ascension. And the tenderness on her face is perfect even though she's in shadow. Love.





Oh Degas. You make ballerinas so purty.















This crazy shit show is by Philip Guston. I love how it takes the conventionality of comics and makes it completely twisted and drowned in madness. The foreheads and legs show up in a lot of his paintings. So does a giant blood splattered Klu Klux Klan head. Yah we were freaked out too.

















I love this picture so much I almost made it my facebook picture. It's called Plum Brandy, and I want to be this woman's best friend and steal her hat. In that order.













So yeah. That's all.

Myyyy parents are coming today! And it's Friday!

Apparently while I was playing hookie on my b-day, the girl who sits behind me went and got flowers, chocolate, and a card for everyone to sign. To which my supervisor replied, "Caroline called in sick today..."

OHHHHH!

She then proceeded to dance to "Brick House." My card was one of those musical ones.

There's also a bunch of stuff that pisses people off. Like kiss-asses getting promoted. I guess that's a classic annoyance though.

Obsessions:
-This song
-This necklace
-This blog
-This blog too

Hey hey, sorry for taking foreverrr to post. My life has lately been straddling the fine line between normal and insane. Yesterday was my birthday, and I celebrated by taking a mental health day and going to Pentagon City instead of work. O:) There's been a lot of good stuff happening lately, and a lot to talk about, but I'm literally writing this as I run out the door, so I'll have to update more later. If I get bored at work I'll probably write one down and type it up soon as I get home. Woo hoo for doing it the old school way.

Oh, and does anyone know anything about making templates for this thing? This current one's cute, but doesn't really inspire me to be blog-gasmic.

gotta run xoxo!

Can we talk about what a shit show my work is? Can we talk about the guy who called FORTY times today about loans for his ten houses? Can we talk about the asian man-woman who got fired and blew out of the room with an hour left in her shift? Can we talk about how it's a full moon tonight?

No. No we cannot.

I used to think I was weird.

OH MY GOD THAT BOOK WAS AMAZING

I really am Lenore Beadsman.

I'm so. so. so. tired. And should probably look for a new job. Not that I don't feel like I'm doing anything at the one I have, but it's obviously not forever, and I do need to start thinking about what I want.

More to come on that later I guess.

Broom of the System is one of the most fantastic books ever. Just.. I can't even fathom how he fit all the shit in this book into his head. It's all so intricate and ridiculous and beautiful. And I love Lenore. In a way I might even be Lenore. :-P

Hungry. In more ways than one.

Woot! It's Saturday and I'm tired! We went apartment hunting today alllll around the VA-DC metro area, and every single one we saw was really really nice and really reasonable. Tonight Mike's friend is having a party thing which will hopefully be funnnn. Other than that I'm boring.

My favorite Britney Spears site was shut down because Britney's dad is a d-bag and suing it :(

Shwhah!

I just slept and did yoga all day. It was beautiful. And Heather's home yayyy and we bought food yay.

Don't wanna go to work tomorrow. Half of the people I like have been shipped to another building for no reason. Sucks. As if there's the slightest semblance of order in this whole operation.

There are of course good elements too, but I don't know how to handle them yet.

Like coffee! And sleep! Wheeee!

"This is the best story EVER." -Mike

It was a very happy St. Patrick's Day.

Good things that happened today:

-Somebody gave up their seat to me on the bus!
-Found a wayyy shorter way to get to work
-Someone liked my dress!
-People got super happy when I told them we owned their loan so they can get the Home Affordability Plan!
-Saw other people reading and texting in plain sight, so guess who's writing love notes and sneaking Nabokov in between calls?

I love coffee and my roommate. Hopefully this weekend will be fun.

This is my 50th post!

And it was my first day of work!

Let's just say it starts with Freddie Flintstone and ends with Big Mac (hee i'm clever), and no one knows what the f is going on. I've been told that I have to tell customers how to figure out whether they have a loan with us, but the people who call have about fifty million other questions.

One lady called sobbing, and one told me her house was going to be sold on Wednesday if someone didn't help. And all I could do was write down their contact info and tell them someone would call them within the next two days. It sucked, times a thousand.

So yeah, it's kind of a trip, and I don't have to wake up super early for it, or come home super late like at the Shakespeare Theatre. Plus daylight savings time is nice so it's not even dark when I go home. And there's money! I'm so paranoid though, all I want to do is stash it away.

Anywho, that's enough of a life update for now. Love you all.

I am now officially too tall to be on America's Next Top Model.

Life plan over. Time to start dealing drugs.

Updates!

Hokay, so, I got a phone call today from the temp agency lady who got me the bank job. They don't think I have enough experience to be a supervisor. Instead I'll be one of the people calling and verifying that people are capable of taking out loans. I have a much better feeling about this, and YAY I have a job!!! I start Monday, so I have from now until then to get all the spaz out of my system.

I had to quit the Shakespeare Theatre job though, and that makes me really sad. I love the people there and am really hoping some of us can still hang out. Yay friends! :)

I'ma buy me some perty work clothes tomorrow!

So I've been really up and down emotionally lately. I just got a job with a really big name bank that got bailed out last year (I'd put the name on here but I don't want to come up on a Google search). It'll be for a year, and I'll be the supervisor for people who call clients and verify loans with them. So for a year I'll be making more money than I've ever seen in my life.

I'm so overwhelmed I can't see straight.

The Pros:
-Not having to worry about money, obviously
-Having something productive to do during the day
-Being able to buy freaking cute Anthropologie and Urban Outfitters dresses and have a place to wear them.
-Feeling like I have some purpose being in DC, even if it's super random

The Cons
-The hours. I'm used to working nights.
-The responsibility. I've never been in a "lead position" before and I'm more than kind of scared.
-The commitment. I don't know yet about personal days, but what if I can't have any? Will I really go a year without daylight?!?

So as you can see the pros outweigh the cons. That's good at least.

I'll update more later.

On the metro tonight, I ran into someone I hadn't seen in three freaking years. And he was so nice! And so funny and not awkward! I love when stuff like that happens.

I also love yoga. It's Vonnegut's quote whenever you do it- everything's beautiful and nothing hurts. You just look out the window and think "why was I pissed off about anything to begin with?"

And I'm getting better at it! There's this one move I thought would be impossible- you basically sit Indian style, arms through your legs, balancing on your hands. At first I was like hah sure that's cute, but now I can actually do it! And hold it for three seconds! Woopee!

And I decided on what I'm giving up for Lent. Hangovers.

So I don't know what to give up for Lent. Last year I think I tried giving up boys (didn't work) and drinking (also didn't work). Then two years ago I didn't really grasp the whole only-give-up-one-thing concept, so bye bye went Facebook, ice cream, gossip blogs, and coffee. With mono, I don't know how I gave up coffee and survived, or at least stayed awake.

But now I don't overdo it anymore with booze or boys, and I don't really eat meat or sweets unless I'm out somewhere. And I don't smoke. Basically I'm super freaking boring.

Maybe I should give up being a goodie goodie. Just get really really fat and smoke like a chimney. Yummay

Ahhhh tonight was so much fun! Went to work, and then to the opening night party for Dog in the Manger. FREE drinks, FREE food, mingling with the cast and snooty patrons, and I got to see Tim Kaufmann! He's very busy and important now and wears fancy suits, but still says oh my goodness :)

Also found out that the people I work with are HILARIOUS. Especially Mike, who I found out has my metro stop! So we died laughing and talking on our freaking long commute and it was amazing.

I love when stuff is randomly wonderful. I'd been worried I was getting numb. Still am about some things..

Perfect night!

Happy almost Valentine's Day!















Cake Wrecks is the best blog ever.

ain't nothin sweet about me

New blog layout! The blue was a little bit much for me and this is light and fresh so yay.

Heather and I have been getting destroyed by a Karen Voigt workout dvd. The other day we opened up all the windows and with the breeze and the smell of fresh air we almost didn't notice that we were getting our asses handed to us by a lady who probably isn't human.

Current obsessions:
-"Sweet About Me" by Gabrilla Cilmi
-sites that pay you for filling out surveys. Thanks Megan ;)
-Georgetown
-unseasonable warmth!

Current un-obsessions:
-Valentine's Day
-Tom Cruise

Chris Brown assaulted Rihanna? Really? Fucking really?!?!?!

Even the perfect ones have to deal with shit.

I've been major OD-ing on Stanley Kubrick.

Eyes Wide Shut sucks, but 2001 is perfect. Completely. Utterly. Perfect. Ho.ly. Shit.

Dr. Strangelove will scare the shit out of you and Clockwork Orange is still my favorite. <3<3<3

Now to go sleep forever.

everybody go watch clockwork orange!

Nothing to say so here's a picture of a panda.



















And another













And another because I feel like it!














I guess two out of three of those weren't technically pandas. Oh well. Happy Sunday!

Shhwhaaat! I need to update this thing more often. Even if it involves making up words.

Hum hum hum, I was in Williamsburg this weekend and, as expected, it was a shit show. Hung out with lots of fun kids and a few creepers, and it was pretty surreal. In a good way! I was having too much fun to be sad/nostalgic.

Soooo what else? Anything random? Always. I read on the New York Times that there's a group called "Dating a Banker Anonymous" where ladies dress up and meet for drinks/brunch to whine about their men. Nobody ever did that before.

On a similar note, my ex is blocking me on AIM. Didn't people stop doing that in 8th grade?

Happy Birthday Robyn!

So I didn't mean to be all Debbie Downer. I'm in a bit of a better mood now. Yay!

Obama's speech, if you got hit in the head with a rock and were the only one to miss it, was beautiful, stirring, wonderful, etc. Everyone was crying and screaming and super happy, and I wish I could have been that enthusiastic too. It's thrilling that he's president, but I feel like so many people are completely enamored with him with no real idea why. It's like they think he's Jesus and Santa wrapped up in one.

Obviously his diversity and patience let basically everyone relate to him, but one of my favorite aspects of Obama is how he has seemed thus far to deflect even the most seductive praises. People cheer and he just grins dismissively, or makes them cry with a speech. But he is never affected by this hysteria, at least on the surface. If it's a ruse, he's damn good at it.

He didn't even get excited during his entrance, being the only one besides Bush not to grin as he walked through the Capitol. It's like he sees a clear light in the future, and the present popularity and crowds are just murk to wade through.

I don't know. Just please do well. And don't let pride anywhere near you.

randomness

-This guy I work with went to a party last night, for the "political Perez Hilton," in a yoga studio, with a band by the mirrors (weirdest acoustics ever I'd think), and, apparently, techno music. Set to whale noises.

Wish I could speak whale.

-Someone who works with Heather gave the pres-elect an extra B and turned him into Obamba.
Nanananana Obamba! (sung to the tune of "La Bamba" um duh.)

-I thought I'd be annoyed at how crazy the metro is getting. Instead it just feels really cool that everyone is getting so excited about this.

So this weekend was freaking amazing. Friday Heather, Katie, and I went to this Indian restaurant with the worst service EVER. They seriously served everyone else in the restaurant before us, only gave us food when Heather asked to see the manager, and gave us the wrong check! (we should have kept it haha.. it was way cheaper than the real one) Freaking amazing chicken tikka masala, even though I'm never eating there again. Not like there aren't any other Indian restaurants in DC.

Then we all saw Revolutionary Road and I cried at the same freaking part. Yay for Kate Winslet winning the Golden Globe!!!!!!! Ahhh!!!!! That movie is so beautiful there was no way anyone else could have won.

Saturday we went around Adams Morgan with Katie and a bunch of girls we didn't know. The first bar was Bourbon and it was so unbelievably crowded we could barely get to the bar. The bartender was amazing- my drinks were 95% bourbon. I guess he got distracted when he was telling some random yelling man to fuck off.

We went to Tom Tom next, drank beer and talked to some awesome twin brothers. Then magically it was 3 am and we were standing on a corner eating foodgasmic pizza and making friends with Tod the random sketch face. Amazing.

I'm so tired I don't know why I'm awake anymore. Bye!

A bunch of things that have been fabulous recently:

-Christmas was so great! My mom and I sang in the choir on Christmas Eve and it was so cool and pretty, and then the whole family was at our house on Christmas, and everyone was happy! AND I GOT A PANDA.














His name is Rutherford.

-Josh visited and we had so much freaking fun!!!! Saturday we saw Revolutionary Road in Georgetown, and it was incredible. Even though it was completely depressing I want to see it again. Breathtaking. Kate Winslet is going to win an Oscar.

Then Sunday we wandered around the Natural and American History Museums, had dinner with Josh's cute friend Kelsey and the one and only Tim Kaufmann, and saw Twelfth Night at the Shakespeare Theatre! Ahhhh that was so good too. Rose petals fell out of the ceiling whenever a character overindulged, either on grief or drink or lust (the fun one!) Haha, it was so adorable. And our seats were awesome!

Today Josh and I wandered around Panera and Borders before he left :( Tomorrow I train for my new job at the theatre, even though I told everyone I had it tonight. Epic fail. Haha, I'm hoping it's not too mind-numbing. I'll keep you updated regardless!

Peace out bitches!