When one of my favorite bloggers, Christel of
Captivated by Image, gave me my third Stylish Blogger Award (thank you!), I realized that I had to fulfill at least one of the rules and spill seven things about myself. It's all rather embarrassing:
Seven Things
1. I once hit myself in the face with a tennis racquet and chipped my front tooth. Fortunately, both of my parents are dentists, so my foray into the "hick" look only lasted an hour.
2. At home, my hiding place is an empty bathtub with the lights off. Everyone is so busy checking behind couches and under desks that they completely miss the bathroom when they're trying to figure out who watered down the Grey Goose.
3. I successfully wedged an SUV into my garage... having forgotten that we'd attached an enormous luggage carrier to the roof in preparation for my brother's move to college. My parents would've killed me, so my brother yelled and sighed before he took the air out of the tires, weighted the car with various objects, and held the luggage carrier down while clinging to the back as I slowly, somehow, reversed the car out of the garage.
4. I have a soft spot for really nerdy boys, the kind who spend the night in the engineering building because they have a presentation due the next day. I'd might as well narrow this down to engineering students. I love engineering students. Law students? Eh. Business majors? Eh. Biomedical engineers? Ding. Ding ding ding. We have a winner!
5. I went to nerd camp for four summers. It's where I met three of my closest friends and countless others, as well as my first legitimate boyfriend (which only lasted three years; he declared himself a finance major, boooo). It was cultish but SO AWESOME. But cultish.
6. I'm incredibly close with my family, but especially my mother. The way to my heart (what's up, biomedical engineers?) is to impress my mom. I could write for pages about how much I love her.
Lucky Number 7. I'm half Chinese and half Italian. Not only did my Chinese ancestors invent pasta, the Italians
perfected it.
[Note: it took me two hours to write this because I spent the better part of the evening mesmerized by Inslee's fantastic illustrations (including the photo used here). I'm obsessed!]
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Full disclosure: I have the flattest chest known to mankind, so plunging necklines and whatnot don't usually do the trick when I want to show a little skin. I love the effect of these casually cut-out shoulders — they're subtle and sensual, the skin-revealing equivalent of locking eyes and sharing a small smile from across the room (as opposed to grinding up on a dude and assaulting him in a beer-fueled haze). Maybe I'll sacrifice an old tee for the cause. It seems like it requires a cool factor much greater than anything I could muster, though... what are your thoughts?
, to be specific, which won the Pulitzer Prize — absolutely beautiful). What are your plans for this week? I'm going to read for class, then read for pleasure, and finally wander out to the edge Lake Michigan when the weather brightens up. Happy Monday!
