Future Me

I hope I look this chic and put together on my first day of work in NYC in the fall. 

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But, I'm pretty sure I'll feel more like this:

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Thunderstorms

The weather report in NC is calling for thunderstorms next week.  I am jealous because I would take a good thunderstorm over pretty much any other kind of weather.  I might as well be five years old when I see a dark anvil-shaped cloud, I get embarrassingly excited every single time.  This probably stems from the fact that my dad has the same reaction.  Guess where thunderstorms never happen.  Reason number 3452 to get out of New Haven.

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This last picture was taken (not by me) at Myrtle.  No doubt the best thunderstorms happen at the beach.

Hotdog Spaghetti

Are you kidding me?  This is the coolest thing I've seen all day week.  I just stared at this picture for five minutes straight.   It's like cooking + craft time, and it's cracking me up.

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Busy Busy

I have a ridiculous amount of things to do in the next week.  I miss my pre-midterm laziness, it was much more enjoyable.  These are a couple of the books I'm using to research my economic history paper.  I drink my tea and flip through them, and I feel super academic and fancy.  But then I just get bored, because these books are boring.

Almost perfect living room

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Love the greys and the lighting and, of course, the striped pillows.  Replace the liquor cart with book shelves, add a cozy rug, and I'll move in.

Irritated

Most of the people I spend time with up here consider themselves liberal and open-minded.  They are quick to condemn racism, sexism, and judgments based on stereotypes.  People here take pride in their own tolerance and pat themselves on the back for their enlightenment.  However, apparently, there's one stereotype that it's still okay to perpetuate; it seeps through everyday conversations and it drives me up the wall.  It pops up everywhere: the south is backward, the south is ignorant, the people are stupid, no one goes there willingly.  Sometimes it's subtle, sometimes not so much.  I've never been personally called uneducated or backward, but the innuendo surrounding the region is unmistakable.  A small town in Massachusetts is charming; a small town in Alabama is underdeveloped.  A flag on a house in Connecticut is patriotic; a flag on a house in Georgia is redneck.  I can vouch for the fact that there are ignorant people in every part of the country, but I have never met better people than I have in the south.  It blows my mind that the same people who fight for openness and equality around campus will turn around and make a joke about the south being full of hicks.  Unsurprisingly, these are usually the people who haven't spent any significant amount of time down there.  So I would say that this doesn't make someone liberal and open-minded, but elitist and bigoted instead.  Sorry I'm not sorry.

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Sunday

I'm not a big fan of Sundays.  I feel like they're best spent hanging out with family, laying around outside, and eating.  However, I'm more than eight hundred miles away from my family.  Also, it's thirty degrees here with two inches of snow in the forecast for tonight.  I did just eat my weight in Tostitos with a hint of lime, though.

My suite-mate says she can tell I'm homesick when I turn off the Regina Spektor and Feist and turn on the Dixie Chicks and Shania.  Truth.  Guess what I'm playing now.

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Wrinkles

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Here's hoping that when I'm this wrinkly, I will have accomplished tons of cool and meaningful junk.  This guy looks like he has.

Layers

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This picture is 97% of the reason I want a tan/khaki blazer.  I love how layers look, but when I put on more than one thing with long sleeves, I kind of feel like I'm going to suffocate.  So there's my dilemma.  Also, I want her tan and freckled chest.

Brie-Obsession

I could eat brie cheese all day, every day.  Seriously.  My favorite recent discovery is that the usually-outrageously-overpriced market down the street will make a brie grilled cheese for only $3.50!  And earlier today I found this picture of a raspberry and brie panini (with drizzled honey).  Get in my belly.

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(P.S. I don't think I knew until about thirty seconds ago that raspberry was spelled with a "p.")

Tradition

Today I spent multiple hours holding a lighter up to a stick of sealing wax waiting for it to drip onto envelopes.  After a bit of a learning curve, and a blistered thumb, my University Society had very official looking invitations to stuff under the doors of unsuspecting juniors.  Most likely my first and last time wax sealing envelopes.  Not too shabby, I think.

Graduation Attire

Graduation is three short months away.  There are going to be lots of fancy Ivy-style events, so I think I'll need to wear this for one of them.  It's so fresh and happy, even though I'll probably be crying my eyes out the whole time.  I will be soon be starting a monetary collection for my spring/summer 2011 outfit fund because apparently a couple yards of yellow fabric fashioned into a simple tank dress is worth over eight hundred bucks.

Graduation by atsuga

Sunflower Belted Dress, $845
Allix Marl Jersey Blazer by Theory, 300 GBP
Rebecca Minkoff M.A.B. Flat | Rebecca Minkoff Online Store, $185
Accessories | Rebecca Minkoff Online Store, $160