January 2006
9 posts
From ecstacy to the dumpster
So after that brief episode of “flushness”, the job outlook right now has turned a bit spotty. My head is above water, but only just. I really need more projects, especially since the bottom has fallen out of my go-to job and it will soon be gone. Ack. Now I understand the meaning of feast and famine. It’s a bit of a scary way to earn your keep, but it does have its...
Random
I don’t know why I procrastinate endlessly. I am lazy, I admit, but that’s not all that there is to it. Sometimes I feel like I’m railing against the doing of things just to be contrary — even if that meant I was being contrary to myself. And sometimes I suspect it’s because somewhere in my head there’s a voice telling me that these mundane tasks are beneath...
My TOP TEN books this year
My pleasures originate from only four sources. I’m incredibly predictable that way. I get my thrills from traveling, beaches, literature, and little wandaful cuts of cloth sewn together to form something that people might not normally wear (wandaful… lord have mercy on my soul). And since I’ve already sickened you guys with ditzy musings on the drape of the new Marc Jacobs...
My bi-annual Fix of Fashion madness
I am getting slightly obsessed with dresses. I predict that dresses are going to be ubiquitous in my Spring/Summer lineup this year. I like these: The first is a vintage dress I spotted on ebay and the next two are both Marc Jacobs. Marc Jacobs really has a helluva lot of nice stuff for Spring. I also like Chloe and Stella McCartney’s line, but they’re not stuff I can wear on a...
Fashion is making my head hurt but...
All this research on fashion is making my head hurt a little. Dresses and cuts and France’s eighteen haute couture houses. Who cares, really? Well, apparently a ginormous amount of people. Anyway, I saw this dress while researching: I think it’s gorgeous. There’s a white version too, which is nice as well, but that’s all out of stock. One of my profilees helped do...
Routines
For the first time in an incredibly long time, my daily life is settling into a comfortable, albeit temporary, routine. Wake up at around 9-11, go to work. Research fashion topics and write the damn Fashion Publicist book. BTW, this project isn’t turning out as hard or annoying as I thought it would be. Even for me, with my often absent fashion sense. (Actually, it’s not absent,...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY KYRA
Happy Birthday Pretty Princess!
GEEK: CueCat and VOIPSTUNT
CUECAT
I have turned the horrific chaos that is my book collection into a searchable database. I catalogued my whole inventory of books. Complete with pictures, ISBNs, authors, descriptions, everything. I did this with the help of the trial version of a program called Readerware which locates all this information on the internet with a book’s ISBN, and then arranges them neatly for you...
New Year's Resolutions and the Requisite Look Back
Resolutions It may be an act in futility, this practice of writing down resolutions. But for myself, it has its merits. Just the fact that I’ve taken time out to assess what went wrong in the past year, where I was lacking and where I needed improvement, I think, is therapeautic and a humbling exercise. And even more than that, the conscious transcription of what I want for myself and...