January 2010
74 posts
when do new episodes start again?
L: Remember I casted the entire cast of Gossip Girl amongst our friends in my head?
Me: Who am I again? Blair or Serena?
L: Umm.... Helen, you're wearing a headband right now.
I appreciate people who are open and honest
because the more you try to save someone’s feelings, the more you usually end up hurting them.
“you look very pretty today!!!”
– i don’t care if it’s true or not, women never get tired of being told they’re pretty. so boys, have you told a girl she’s pretty today??
“you’re trying to make something fit that’s not…”
– Adam, my pointe shoe fitter extraordinaire. i gave up my grishko 2007’s for some fouettes that fit MUCH better! but the new shank will take some getting used to….
“When I was 19 and I first moved to New York I used to go to gallery openings in...”
– former model
"I thought he was already dead!"
D: your post today is really funny
D: well whatever, it's not like i've read that novel
D: i saw david bowie in that movie though, labrynth
Me: hahaha yeah that's my only david bowie reference
Me: it was pretty scathing... people called me moronic
D: hahahahahahaha it's pretty funny =)
D: you should comment
Me: what should i say?
D: i don't know, something witty?
Me: like a JD salinger quote?
D: hahahah
D: what does he even write
D: i'm not sure i've ever heard of him
“A woman who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.”
– Coco Chanel (via simko)
A woman after my own heart. I have however, stopped wearing perfume for the most part bc i’m deciding on fragrance switch. Last time I was at the Saks counter w/P they hilariously tried to sell to him instead of me.
Pisces horoscope of the day:
Turn a new page in your book. Create fun… and act like a kid.
it's never too early to be curmudgeonly
E: the world is quiet today, i've only gotten two emails.
E: should i be paranoid?
Me: No, let's not. Life is hard enough as it is.
E: EXCUSE ME??? How old are you??? You are too young to be making such statements.
Me: Psychics tell me I'm an old soul
Gotta entertain myself somehow
Me: EDUARDO!
Me: Hola!!!! como estas?!?!
Edward: Are you DRUNK?
Me: no :(
“Part of being in business for a long time is that they say you don’t do a good...”
– the venerable HB
“The only way to deal with rejection is by shining.”
– Diane von Furstenberg, on Fashion Week leaving Bryant Park.
“PREDATOR! He’s not even legal.”
– Pchan to me, as we pick our favorite Jonas brother over a Disney commercial and I happened to choose the youngest one. I need to get out more.
“You guys are all NOODLES!”
– Gelsey Kirkland, yelling at us in ballet class because we all lack her steely carriage.
“The idea is not to be beautiful but to give the illusion of beauty.”
– Wilhelm Burmann. He teaches the class before mine… I want to try taking it, but 10am class on a Saturday morning is cruel and unusual punishment.
“It’s a good thing you know where you’re headed, because others in...”
– Pisces horoscope for today. HAHAHA! oy vey…
Oh THANK GAWD! how to un-tab new windows in... →
“Meat is done. People are finished.”
– Edward’s (proposed) epitaph
“I like the idea of beauty with a broken surface.”
– Olaf Hajek, illustrator and fine artist
“People were either pooping or puking.”
– stomach flu victim
“You are confident, have good credit, own your own business, travel around the...”
– More Men Marrying Wealthier Women via NYTimes
“No matter how worldly, successful, and sophisticated you get, i will always...”
– Connie Chicken. Yeup, once upon a time I was in Troy Country Fiddlers. Picture a bunch of Asian kids in country western shirts swaying their violins in unison to “boil ‘em cabbage down.” We played mostly at nursing homes and random corporate events where we got paid in cookies,...
“I asked my stand-partner to prom.”
– ROFLs. i haven’t heard the word “stand-partner” and “prom” in at least 5 years, much less, in the same sentence. luvs it.
“If everyone has luxury, is it still luxury?”
– Ian Schrager, Hotelier
“The best way to get people to talk is to listen.”
– Me. Yeah, i just quoted myself. i’m sure it’s not an original thought.
Oh, gym rats.
P: Yesterday I took "total asset management"
P: Tomorrow i'm going to take "SHRED"
P: and then next week: "booty blast!"
Me: ...
My sad soliloquy for the day:
Perhaps the most striking thing to me about the earthquake in Haiti (and China) to me is the absence of design. It’s not earthquakes that kill people, it’s poorly built structures that kill people. Good design takes time and money, things not always on hand in developing countries…
Putting aside the fact that much of the mortalities could have been prevented, the situation only...
Life in a Yurt →
“The money Mr. Higman and Ms. McKittrick save enables them to travel for long periods. Their next expedition, scheduled for late August, is a 200-mile, monthlong trek to unmined coal repositories in northwest Alaska.”
Sometimes I wonder if I could give up living in the city to go live in a yurt.
New York Times to Hire Gossip Girl Reporter →
“Yes, we’re finally doing it: Creating a full-time beat covering New York’s private schools. It is, perhaps, the one topic other than real estate that lights up cocktail party conversation… They are bastions of aspiration and privilege both, places that inspire fierce competition and intense curiosity, worlds known to few outside their citizens yet critical to the shaping...
“…we increasingly define our lives through images, to the point where the...”
– Ken Miller in the foreword of Shoot