May 2011
23 posts
May 31st
64 notes
1 tag
May 30th
3 notes
It’s Memorial Day weekend! That is supposed to mean summer shares and trips to Fire Island and going to barbecues. But that also means planning and work and saving money and doing shit ahead of time, none of which I usually feel like doing. I burn at the beach, I’m too cheap to chip in for a Hamptons house, and no one invited me to anything. And to be honest, all I want to do this...
May 29th
3 notes
May 27th
1 note
I have a list of banned words too.
maura: A few phrases that will rarely escape my delete key: highly anticipated -esque infamous (unless you’re talking about someone who killed another person) everybody knows that on acid there is nothing like random “shared” as a post-quote verb “What do you think?” There are more, but I can’t think of many right now. See also! (via countcenci) Some of mine, particularly ones...
May 24th
79 notes
May 21st
37 notes
I Regret to Inform You That My Wedding to Captain... →
dontcallmeval: sweetvirginiabreeze: A must for any Sound of Music lovers!! Umm, this is fantastic. Also, the Baroness is my personal style icon.
May 19th
67 notes
May 19th
3 notes
May 18th
1,279 notes
Generation Gap
Me: I was thinking about getting tickets to the NKOTBSB concert. Want to go? Sister: Yeah, totally. Sucks I’ll have to sit through all those New Kids on the Block songs, though. Me: Too bad I’ll have to sit through all those Backstreet Boys songs.
May 16th
May 14th
“If you stop at the top of a set of stairs to talk on the phone, if you are in...”
– Also, how did I never know the phrase “Irish pajamas” before today?
May 14th
3 notes
“Why the fixation on high school? In America, it’s probably the closest thing we...”
– Prom episodes of TV shows apparently make me ranty
May 12th
6 notes
A friend of mine needed people to quote in an article, so I connected her with “Mallory,” a girl I went to high school with. This resulted in a side tangent where Mallory and I caught up about work and who from our high school had another kid lately, and then she added the most perfect, unintentionally hilarious PS ever: “By the way, [name of my boyfriend, who also went to our...
May 11th
1 note
In the spirit of HowAboutWe.com, I’m going to list some stuff I’ve never done in New York and see if any of my friends want to do said things with me. How about we… Get breakfast at Balthazar? TAKEN Go to the Transit Museum? TAKEN Brown bag it in a park other than McCarren? Attend Shakespeare in the Park? Drink wine on my fire escape? TAKEN Go to one of those midnight...
May 11th
9 notes
May 9th
51 notes
Kafka made a list of things he had failed at learning: languages and piano. I have mostly failed at reading Kafka.
May 7th
1 note
May 6th
15 notes
May 5th
372 notes
May 5th
35 notes
Jessica Wakeman: I went to  →
jessicawakeman: the book party tonight for My Mom, The Style Icon tonight and I appreciated: The hors d’oeuveres were tasty. The caterers were tastier. There was a 25% discount on Coach items (it was held in the Coach store), even though I didn’t take them up on it. I got to catch up with Alex Leo. Lilit…
May 3rd
1 note
May 2nd
31 notes
“For its twenty-fifth season, The Real World returned to the place where I...”
– Did you guys know The Real World is still on? And that it’s kind of OK this season?
May 2nd