February 2012
23 posts
started reading the hunger games
all i can say is, i’m obsessed.
five things that make me extremely happy
1. tasting menus. particularly at restaurants owned by tom colicchio. actually, anything involving tom colicchio. that man owns my heart.
2. a nice, hot cup of tea and new episodes of downton abbey.
3. sales. at urban outfitters. two pairs of tights for 10 dollars! two nailpolishes for 8! the sale racks! order online!
4. outdoor concerts. especially with this biddie.
5. boo boo chickens...
not quite homesick
but i miss people and things - mostly people - back home. the superbowl made me miss america. real american food. real buffalo wings.
i should do my art history homework but i think instead i’ll watch Like Crazy. nothing to cure homesickness like a tearjerker about intercontinental love.
January 2012
42 posts
on two weeks in italy
it’s funny, how the things i miss are not the things i thought i’d miss, and how the things i find myself missing are things i didn’t think for a second i would miss at all. being away from home, it’s like this giant sifting experience. everything that makes me up, all the little grains, were put into one of those beach sifters, and through the little plastic holes fall...
