December 2009
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Spotted & Overheard @ South Coast Plaza
A line out the door to get into Tiffany and Co. When I say line, I mean a big fat sausage fest of a line. Men, please be more original! Think more this. It’s not only cuter (and cheaper), but your girlfriend won’t run into a bazillion people all wearing the same thing. OK, I have to admit, I was actually IN T&CO with my cousin, and I had to respect his decision to get a...
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Linzer
I would trade my entire bag of dove chocolates for one raspberry linzer cookie right now
Romance novels
These would be my guilty pleasure, except i totally don’t feel guilty for reading them. I started reading them once in a while in senior year of high school and still find them to be a good source of entertainment for a couple hours. And there was that one time when I had to read a “grocery novel romance” for a seminar on The Romance Novel in college. Well, I found my...
What's that rule about drinking before some hour?
Is 10:58 am too early for a glass of wine?
double double
one time i ordered on the road online. then a few days later, i really thought i should read on the road, so i ordered it online. i had no recollection of ordering it the first OR second time when both copies arrived in the mail. now i have two.
at one point jane austen was my favorite author. so i bought pride and prejudice and emma to read. a few years later in college, i really felt the...
Past writing
I wrote this a year and a half ago, shortly after I returned from France as an American Assistant. I thought I could send this in to a forum/e-zine for people who want to travel abroad, but never got around to even selecting which outlets would be appropriate. It’s always bizarre to read over past writing, but the tips I wrote about are still solid, based on stories I’m hearing from...
Garage/Garbage
I started a heroic effort to sort out the gazillion boxes in the garage today, and it was interesting. First of all, I’m a pack rat. I hoard things like crazy, a trait that I was blessed with from my mom’s side. And today, I experienced the capacity at which we can hoard together. These are some of the prize stuffs that came out of those endless boxes: a gorgeous canon + lens that...
a la francais
Clement called me from France to assuage my last minute nerves about the lsat.
I said: I know I can’t study today, but I don’t know what else to do. I’m nervous.
Clement: Go for a drink with a friend
I replied: I AM NOT PUTTING ALCOHOL IN MY BODY THE DAY BEFORE THIS TEST!
Clement: Oh, sorry, that was just a French advice.
orange groves
One of the best things about living in suburbia is waking up and taking super lazy morning walks and instead of homeless people you see a couple playing early tennis, parents taking their kids to work, and the sky - filled to the brim with dark, gray clouds - blending with the peaceful barren hills beyond the park, and then you start to think: could i possibly live a life of rustication? and while...