chopped

got my haircut the other day. would you like to see?


not quite that short, but the effect is the same i think. i called michelle:
me: 'i'm not a fan. it makes me look really young.'
michelle: 'i think that's your face.'

birfday

today i am 27. a few months ago i was losing sleep over being in my late twenties, which is understandable when everyone around you is talking about getting married, having kids, making money, having one foot in the grave.

but i've decided not to play that game. i'm ok with 'almost thirty'. it doesn't change the fact that i'm going to do what i want to do. not being on some arbitrary timeline is much more relaxing, and it leaves me to lie awake at night thinking about what the hell i'm going to play on my new radio show. (shameless self-promotion! ktru 91.7fm!)

so i've celebrated this year by eating. a lot. to wit: queso on friday, grasshopper tacos (not mint & chocolate; actual fried grasshoppers.. crunchy) and squash blossoms from hugo's on saturday, chocolate carrot cupcakes, and steak night at volcano today. with more queso, because gluttony is the spice of life.

i sort of love this

and you know how i feel about pie..

acl

guess who's going to austin city limits in october???

sonic youth, mos def, grizzly bear, coheed, ghostland observatory, pearl jam, and ME!

(i'm going to pretend my hardest that dave matthews doesn't even exist.)

it'll be three days of heat, humidity, and dust, but it will be glorious!

lunch

looking to go on a diet? try my new weight loss plan! it's fast, easy, and only available to baylor employees. see how simple it can be:

1. go into the pathology department break room between the hours of 12 and 2.
2. inhale deeply.

i guarantee your appetite will be gone after just 30 seconds! if the smell of weird microwaved food isn't enough, just move on to step 3, putting your head in the fridge, and you can bet that you won't be wanting food of any kind for the rest of the day!


side effects may include nausea and vomiting.

flatte

happy birthday to me... i just ordered a bottle of knockout matte black.

hey it's karen o from the yeah yeah yeahs!

having black nail polish on makes doing anything, like, say cutting brussels sprouts, ever so slightly badass. (please note i said 'slightly'. not in this universe will the word 'badass' ever really apply to me.) i've been obsessing over this for a few months, because i'm a sucker for anything matte. i can't wait to try it out next to my glow-in-the-dark skin.

speaking of celebrating my emergence into this world, i can't decide what to do for the big day. i sort of want to go shooting..

whitest girl alive

how is it possible to sit outside for half an hour at lunch and get a sunburn? unfair!

sons of bankers, sons of lawyers

today's song of the day. i had forgotten that i like old elton john until we watched almost famous this weekend.

(this makes me want to get on the MTA to grand central. i miss new york.)

please be mine!

spotted while driving down shepherd. it's my favorite color. sigh.

and those are two starbucks, directly across the street from each other, not one big one.

i'm wicked excited.

it may have given me an ulcer, but i booked my ticket back to mass. twelve days at home, morgan's graduation, and michelle will be joining me for a weekend so she can compare old and new england. (meaning she can experience all the things i've overhyped.) time to figure out who we know that's closest to the T!