I have been giving a lot of thought lately to the idea of self-image, at least to the extent of the way other people view us in our day to day life. This is not as paranoid as it sounds, even if I haven't really gotten over seeing myself in a candid photograph that happened to be in a publication ( Read more... )

I had been leisurely enjoying my late monday evening when I discovered my photograph in the society pages ( Read more... )

This really put me in a bad mood:

http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/features/12026/index.html

Why, oh why, do I want to throw up when I read this?

Today I wore a fantastic white linen backless dress, three inch silver crocodile heels and a large sapphire cocktail ring. My nails were glittering in a rosy shade that, in a way that only temporary-obsessive-compulsiveness allows, matched my lips. To all outsiders, I looked as if I were going to a fabulous cocktail party, albeit one that was held ( Read more... )

*A brief memoir of trying to cook two fridays ago ( Read more... )

The other day I received an invitation to a red-carpet event for June ( Read more... )

Today I was re-arranging my book collection, as the end of the semester has left it in absolute tatters. I'm not particularly obsessive about my books or anything, but there were mysterious bite marks on my shelf that downright troubled me. The bite marks were too narrow to be a human's, but too wide to have come from one of the four cats who ( Read more... )

While I was out playing in the sprinklers during the summer of 1993, my grandmother was spending her days hanging around the house in a full-length mink coat, wearing every piece of jewelry she owned, and a nightgown. She'd lay on a tufted silk chaise lounge, dingy from the decades of sticky little kid hands, reading from The Great Gatsby ( Read more... )

I've noticed that the further I get in my education, the dumber I get. I'm not sure if its a reaction to the droves of pretentious people I'm exposed to within the english major itself, or if I've just spent too much time alphabetizing my Vogue magazine collection ( Read more... )

You know that you're in trouble when you start to feel low class at Dunkin' Donuts ( Read more... )