Entries from January 2008

January 22, 2008

A Silk Affair

One hundred percent Italian silk dangled daintily off the plastic hanger.  She fingered through the fabric to uncover the true silhouette.  A rough cotton thread peaked through the mahogany folds to reveal a small, handwritten price tag: $188.  Her hand flinched back a notch.  Yet, the snowy materials beckoned to her.  Nothing else existed in [...]

January 18, 2008

Amazing… and I keep losing it…


January 16, 2008

… too long overdue…

Life’s superficial messes cloud our daily minds, so this is too long overdue.
Thank you, 00, for understanding me, loving me and always accepting me exactly the way I am.
Thank you for being there for me always, never refusing a phone call or a rant because you’re too tired and always stretching yourself too thin to [...]

January 14, 2008

Wishes: We have to come up with a better name

This weekend was the best.  A perfect combination of things to do and relaxation.
I emailed this to OO at some point because I had some down time:
Another foggy night in San francisco. Nicole wished that for once she
could celebrate her birthday on a sunny, non-suicidal day. The
building lights that usually dot the financial district hid [...]

January 10, 2008

CES tailing in…

There’s been a lot of news about gadgets, technologies, and the all mighty touch screen coming from bloggers and journalists alike at CES 2008.  I would love to be there, but spending my one of my three (or is it four?) week vacations at geek-fest in Vegas instead of working on my tan?… Probably worth [...]

January 7, 2008

velcome to ze house of joox

In brief:

For my coworkers in the Boston office.
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Still coughing… ‘cept now I lost my voice.
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So this random guy and I kinda connected via Facebook cuz we shared some common friends.  Things were cool, and we were getting to know each other via aim, online, etc.  I thought it was just friendly until he starts getting [...]

January 3, 2008

bloated like a balloon, scratchy like a man

 
yesssirrr… I’m officially sick.  Not cough cough, you poor thing sick.  More like, I feel like I’m about to keel over, my head wants to explode, my voice is scratchy and deep, and I’ve drank probably more water than is recommended for a human but don’t need to pee sick.
But who am I to complain?  [...]

January 2, 2008

How do you pronounce Bhutto and what’s the PPP?

My friend, Julija, visited the Bay Area from San Diego all this week.  As with any Penn alum visitation, I grasped the chance to discuss social, political, and economic issues in the news. (I understand that I don’t have to limit these discussions to Ivy Leaguers.  But there’s usually one involved, and when there isn’t, most [...]

January 2, 2008

Happy 2008! The year I turn 24… whoooo…

It’s not that I don’t love celebrating new years, especially this year, my first without the parents and my first (of many?) with man.  I’m just so overly sick of the new year’s predictions, resolutions, and every other topic surrounding the resetting of our calendars.
Another year.  Yes.  Hopefully this one will see a lot of [...]