Seven Things

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!]

La Mer

I feel so refreshed, finally! It was eighty degrees and sunny for most of Sunday, so we wandered out to Lake Michigan and studied (read: napped, chatted, people-watched). I also treated myself to a terribly overpriced white chocolate and raspberry bar, which was so delicious and rich and necessary. I gave up cheese for Lent in an effort to cut down on the tons and tons of saturated fat that I eat, but as it turns out, I've just been replacing it with chocolate. Still, it was so nice to get a little sun and catch up on work.

Speaking of which, a career coach at the career services office recommended that we spend at least an hour a day on our job hunt. At my rate, I could be job-hunting for eight people. And, once I do get a job (fingers crossed knock on wood wishing on a shooting star), I'm probably going to troll the job listings anyway. For fun. Which is sick. As are these fragmented sentences.

But how was your weekend?!


[photo cred to Ellen Von Unwerth for Lacoste S/S 2010 via Everly True]

Fairytales & Dreams

This weekend was chock full of stories — an article on a professional (and dear, eighty-seven year old) cupcake decorator, une histoire for French about how I once hit myself in the face with a tennis racquet and chipped my front tooth, and a spin on a fairytale. I've only written the fairytale in my head, but my goal is to make the old woman from the Brothers Grimm's Hansel & Gretel seem like a sympathetic character. Wouldn't you be a little irked if some kids came around and tried to eat your house? Especially if it looked something like this beautiful castle. Since I'm in the mood for a fairytale, it seems only natural that I can't look away from these elegant and sumptuous images: the frothy dress, ice blue lake, girlish peep-toes.

In other news, Sara in Le Petit Village so kindly gave me The Irresistibly Sweet Blog award! I've been blushing for about twenty minutes now. And, as my senior superlative, my sorority named me "Most likely to ask for Brie and Veuve Clicquot at a gas station." Then again, can anyone ever resist some cheese and champagne?

[photo cred to Periculosus Rabidus via We Heart It and the Cherry Blossom Girl]

Weekend & Exciting Things

So many lovely things have happened in the past week! I returned to Chicago and began classes, received a my first ever blog award from Alison of {long distance loving} (one of my very favorite blogs), and wrote my first column for the College Prepster's new newsletter, Prep Talk (clever, right?). This weekend will be filled with sorority recruitment and barely enough time to breathe, but once it's over on Tuesday, I can stretch my legs, open a few books, and consider doing my homework. I hope you all have a far more relaxing weekend than the one I'm about to see!

[photo cred to kittynelle via Matchbook Mag]