see food

matt lauer says that we're in the middle of soft shell crab season. i LOVE soft shell crab. does anyone want to take me out to eat these soft but firm, exotic yet familiar, seasonal yet memorable little critters? i'll bring my own bib.

the three little bears (and dogs)

amy, marcy and i went out to cameron park this past memorial day with the dogs. they all have crazy personalities (the dogs, not people) and marcy caught it all on camera. nice! check them out here

new blog, one way street

i started a blog for my shop, check it out if you have a second. it's just starting to come together, and is certainly a work in progress (WIP).

prefontaine blog

cafe au lait, cafe au late

well, i love jane austen. i don't say that much because i think it's pretty trendy to like jane austen right now, like anne hathaway trendy (yes i watched it). but at every point in my adult life, and even now, i am reading something of hers. right now, i am reading sense and sensibility, again. i feel so understood. man, i am SO elinor dashwood, i can't even believe it.

i feel so disconnected from americana sometimes, i've been watching american idol for the last two days and suddenly feel like i represent heartland america. i am the everyman. i would really like for david cook to win. there's no way that cute lil gremlin, david chubakka or whatever, can bet him. americans like mystery. trust me, i know.

this weekend, i am going to a baptism. the guy getting baptized is vegan. i wonder what they will serve for refreshments. i do wish we utilized the letter "s" more than "z" in american english. doesn't "baptised" sound a little more presentable than "baptized"? reminds me of kwik wash and donut.

business has been a little rough because of all the rain. no one feels pretty when they look like a sewer rat.

let me see what i can do

my very favorite thing to say when i'm working at BU is "let me see what i can do." i say it when i have no idea how to respond to a person, i say it when i think someone is being really demanding and i just want to get out of the situation, i say it when i need to feel empowered. today i used it twice, on two different people. i found out later that they are friends. i wonder if they will refer to me as the "let me see what i can do" girl.

bryan harrison, you're my hero

i'm so proud of you, bradley is too. he wants to give you a special treat. just come over and wear something with pockets. : )

more bangs for my buck

i cut major bangs tuesday morning. i was reading the times and there was an article on prep school kids in korea. all of the girls had these amazing long slits for eyes and no makeup with straight hair and bangs (and poreless skin with the greatest cheeks). i bee-lined for the bathroom before i even finished reading the article. i feel good about it and have decided that wearing mascara on my bottom eyelashes suits the hair. so i started that too. it all went well, except that i cut just a little too far back and now i have a few strands of bangs-length hair outside the bangs area. so basically, like a friar (desert father chic). when I first style it in the morning, it’s so ramones, which I love, by mid-day, more joni Mitchell, and by the time i sleep, it definitely resembles the unfortunate hairstyle of a certain mr. r. sambora. it's in the awkward "first-two-weeks-of-a-new-'do stage, for sure. anyway, not everyone likes it, but really, that's made me believe in it more. amy said that she makes fun of people with bangs and says things like "she's pretty, but she has bangs". she said she would try to give me a chance. thanks amy.

also, for the most part, i have abandoned the bright cheek and decided to take on a more monochromatic cosmetic palette. i've found that with heavy bangs and straight hair, adding bright cheeks makes me look like i've jumped out of a manga novel. when chad and i would go to b&n to read/study, he would he would bait me with beauty pop: "if you finish another section, i'll let you read beauty pop for 20 minutes. . ." hilarious! beauty pop is my favorite manga. a short description: "Although a truly gifted hairstylist, Kiri Koshiba has no interest in using her talent to pursue fame and fortune, unlike the three popular boys in the "Scissors Project" at school. Determined to become the best makeover team in Japan, they give showy makeovers to handpicked girls. As much as Kiri tries to shy away from the Scissors Project spotlight, she finds herself responding to beauty's call..."

the nytimes article here

beauty pop here