Jul 02 2008
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(via danhacker)
This is me every day.
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Currently Reading: Chasing Harry Winston by Lauren Weisberger
Why: Because The Devil Wears Prada and Everything Worth Knowing are guilty pleasures.
Impressions: Eh. I read the scathing reviews for this book an amazon.com but still figured I’d give it a try. The long wait-list at the library further piqued my interest. I was wrong. It’s dragging and I’m not even half-way through. Unlike TDWP and EWK, this one has three main characters. Instead of creating a bumbling and loveable heroine whose head we get inside, Weisberger created three vague character outlines whose lives seem vapid and one-dimensional.
Emmy is a chef who is still going through career angst at age 30 (doesn’t it ever get better people?) and has just been dumped by her boyfriend of 5 years (a cocky egomaniac who seems like an unlikely choice for someone whose obsessed with marriage and kids). Leigh is a work-a-holic book editor who isn’t in love with her boyfriend, yet somehow let things get to the point of him proposing. Adriana is unemployed and the gorgeous daughter of an ex-supermodel; I guess I don’t really get the point of Adriana or understand why she would be friends with two such downers. For the matter, I don’t see why they care about each other so much- they seem like self-absorbed bitches. The point of the novel is supposed to be that the three women make life-altering decisions and agree to carry forth with them in the next year. Frankly, I don’t feel the impact of their decisions and fail to see why I should care.
Anyway, that’s my rant. Maybe the book will get better and some huge character insights and developments will occur in the next hundred pages or so.
Jul 01 2008
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Fashion Inspiration of the Week: Rebecca of The Clothes Horse
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People around my office are always calling each other “Trouble.” As in, “Uh oh! HERE COMES TROUBLE!” when they see a friend walking down the hall towards them. Is that some really cute thing and I’m just lame because I think it’s irritating?
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The grass is always greener…
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3 Movie Characters I Identify With
- Corrie Bratter (Barefoot in the Park)
- Hannah (Hannah and Her Sisters)
- Christina Walters (The Sweetest Thing)
- Sam (Garden State)
- Alexander Supertramp/Christopher McCandless (Into the Wild) *real person
- Elizabeth Bennet (Pride and Prejudice) **book
- Clementine Kruczynski (Eternal Sunshine)
- Margot Tenenbaum (Royal Tenenbaums)
- Emily Friehl (A Lot Like Love
- Irwin Fletcher (Fletch)
- Max Fischer (Rushmore)
- Christopher McCandless (Into the Wild)
Jun 30 2008
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Over-hearing people cold call is depressing.
Jun 27 2008
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“ I’d rather eat dirt than go to her with a problem.
— My boss in an anonymous review about our Ops Mgr.
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Tim Riggins makes my Friday afternoon a little better.
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Goals for the weekend
- Dinner and hanging out with Dan and our couple-friends tonight.
- Helping my aunt make pillows for her couch and reupolster her dining room chairs tomorrow.
- Rock Band…because it’s been too long.
- Maaaybe sew a bag (starting small here) with all the great fabric I’ve been accumulating.
- See Wall-E.
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Dresses made out of balloons…I’d hate to see what happens if they pop (or deflate, for that matter).
Jun 26 2008
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This was my jam in 8th grade.
