After all of my whining and bitching and crying about the cold weather, fake summer / real spring is finally here! YES. We did it, everyone. Congrats. High of 92 degrees here today.. KABOOOOOOOOOOOM sun explosion!!!!!!!!! Don't worry, back to 60 degrees tomorrow.



In the one week where the weather has been awesome, I have already gotten sunburnt. YESSSSSS. My lifelong dream of getting skin cancer is one step closer to becoming realized. I know, that's not funny. Anyways, I read Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon outside on Saturday and I now have some major swimsuit tan lines. Following up on that book name drop, Mysteries is spectacular, and I really enjoyed it.



I had been meaning to read this one for awhile, since I've read a decent amount of his other novels, and when I saw this adorable cover at the Harvard Book Store, I had to pick one up. Anyways, this new cover is for Harper Perennial's Olive Edition and the other two, which I also liked, I also already owned. And seriously, who needs two copies of Unbearable Lightness of Being and Everything is Illuminated? Also, how did they end up picking these three books? I just started Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies last night and it is pretttttttttyyyyyy good. Sorry I just talked about books for way too long without saying anything of substance.

Nicoolio and I spent last Sunday wandering throughout the city. Some things we did: Crossed through the Greek Parade on Boylston, took the commuter rail from Back Bay to South Station, had a helpful bus driver in Dior shades, had a beer at the Legal Test Kitchen, went to the Harpoon Brewery, schmoozed the brewery workers (okay, I didn't do this so much), got kind of drunk, wandered into the Puma party next to the ICA, saw Usain Bolt, went to the Barking Crab, then took the T up to Harvard, where we ate dinner at the Border Cafe. It was awesome. My calves still hurt from walking. All of this from a day where we were supposed to go sailing. Good trade off.

I had a weird dream a few nights ago which ended in me eating gummi worms. I am eating gummi worms now, and they are just as good as I dreamt they were. I am going to revive my summertime ritual of eating a Vietnamese sandwich in the Public Garden today. YES.

Wonder no more!

This is in fact, what I would look like with a creeper's lens.

I love MWP's unbelievable Microsoft Paint skills. Skillz?

So a little more than one week left in April, wait how did that happen again? Oh fuck, it's Wednesday and not Thursday. It is simultaneously later than and earlier than I had thought.

The news keeps telling me that its going to be 80 degrees this weekend and I keep getting more excited. Tim says not to get my hopes up until it happens, but I think that’s his defense mechanism for being his own sweatshop crayon ring labor and being trapped inside.



Okay, I think he’s actually making a box in that picture, but you get the idea.

EXCITING NEWS! G is moving back to Boston this weekend from SD. Wait, he just told me he’s going to make me watch all the seasons of The Wire. Fuck. I take it back. This news is no longer exciting, it is terrifying.

I was creeping outside our living room window a few days ago to figure out the weather, and I noticed something weird across the street. On the 3rd floor of the building across from us, some one had written (in masking tape): I AM SORRY and then further down the pane: I LOVE YOU. It was still there this morning. I wonder what that's all about. I tried to take a picture, but was too far away and do not own a gigantic creeper's lens


I googled giant creep lens and this picture came up. Imagine how cool I would look with that.

No one is left in the office, mayhaps I shall wander home now?

First Day of Sandals

This made me laugh this morning, because sometimes I feel the same way. Also, Taiwan Cafe is spectacular.

So yes, I finally got my hair cut AND I got bangs. I have already been told I look like I'm 15. Which makes me paranoid. Good job new haircut, you have made me insecure. I don't have any pictures because I am extremely adverse to self portraiture, it tends not to go so well for me.

The worst thing about cutting bangs is that you spend the next week indiscriminately snipping pieces of hair and oh, now you've done it, your fringe is all weird looking. Also, sometimes I catch a glimpse of my reflection in a window or mirror, and I won't recognize myself. Also, people think you're 15.

Ahhhhhhh it's nice outside today! I'm wearing sandals! It's going to be 70! I'm going to leave work early and frolic outside. Just kidding, when is the last time you saw me frolicking anywhere? But I AM going to leave work early. Why? Because fuck him, that's why. (did you catch that?) Ahhhh and it's a long weekend! Even more reason to check out of here early. Although, if I go to Newbury, it's going to be lousy with people I want to punch. Hmmmmm worth it.

Seems like only a few days of decent, 50 degree weather made everyone in Boston think that it was safe to go outside scantily clad. (Today: 48 but feels like 41) I saw a lot of streetwalkers / homeless / streetwalking homeless today in their crazy outfits.


THIS OUTFIT IS REAL! and totally amazing. (yes, there is a jean "skirt" over the actual jeans)

I am getting a haircut in 40 minutes for the first time since February 2008 and have no idea what I want... oh boy.

I made a gigantic sandwich to take to work this morning. I have been on a sandwich kick. You know how sometimes you get obsessed with a type of food and you just constantly crave it? Thats me and sandwiches. I blame Spain.

I ate blackberries all morning and it was spectacular. Except you can't really bite down on them because of the seeds, so it involves squishing only. Or... is that just me?

You know how when you search for something on ebay, it gives you the "best match" first? How are they determining the best matches? Is this an extra feature you have to pay for when you are selling? The best matches are always the worst. Continuing with this ebay topic, it's the WORST when you have a positive Paypal balance because then you think you're not really spending money at all, since it wasn't in your bank account to start with. No, just me again?

I painted my nails today and am currently breaking in a pair of Delmans. My excuse for buying them was that I had no all navy shoes and so I should buy some to make wearing navy less prohibitive. My family used to joke that I had refrigerator feet - little rectangles that refused to be stuffed into children's shoes and sometimes, I think that's still true.

This is my first spring in a completely urban setting and I've been missing the tree blossoms, crocuses, tulips, hyacinths, lilacs, and all of those other signs that are so common. Every spring when I was younger, I would huff on the lilacs and hyacinths to breathe in as much of the scent as possible. I wish I could do that right now.

I have a secret. I am still not unpacked. I know. I suck.

Rainy Saturday

Oh my, it's already 5:40 PM. FIVE : FORTY PM and I haven't done anything yet!! Oh, besides go to Whole Foods and pick up some of these:


YES. Awesome. Okay actually I like roasted beets better than pickled beets, but they are still pretty good.

So vacation was good, but it's really good to be home now. We came, we saw, we ate 5 meals a day, and now I have an extra 5 jamon pounds on me. Worth it.


That's a bunch of cold meats we had in London, including some bologna like substance that I was totally into. Mmmmmm nameless pork meats. I mean NO! NO CURED PORK, MICHELLE, RESIST!

Ooooh Tim and I stopped by JP Licks on the way home last night and I got a Chocolate Chip Cookie / Peanut Butter swirled soft serve. It was amazing.

You guys, I should seriously weigh 300 pounds and I am very thankful that I do not.

NB just told me that our friends got engaged last night! Holy F, I had homeroom with him in 7th grade! Ahhhhh, this is the first couple in our "group" that has gotten engaged. I hear from here on out its just one after another... !! We're getting ooooooold.

I saw the cutest brown Boston Terrier on the T yesterday, I almost died. I didnt know that Boston Terriers could be brown. Maybe it was a reject from shows :( In Spain, I kept on seeing the cutest French Bulldogs


and then whining about how I wanted one... sigh. One day!!!!

I'm wearing Tim's scarf that I have absconded with and it is prettyyyy warm. Thanks Tim!

Things I am going to do when I get home:

1. Sleep for an entire day
2. Hug Tim for as long as he can stand it
3. Go on a pork-free vegetable-only diet for as long as I can stand it
4. Eat some nachos
5. Not walk ANYWHERE
6. Wash / dryclean all of my clothes TWICE to get out the stench of my father's pipe smoke

Kind of sad I missed the Chalayan exhibit at the London Design museum, but having the sandals of my dreams makes up for it a little bit. Last full day in Barcelona tomorrow; the plan is to get Gaudi-ed in the face. And then I'm going to go shopping. Will I come home with drop crotch pants? Only time will tell.