a sunny day in boston

Last Thursday, Lindy happened to be in Boston on a job interview. We met up to try Berryline in Harvard Square, a new frozen yogurt place. I really love these frozen yogurt places that are cropping up now, which I think must take a cue from Korean patbingsu cafes, with the unflavored, sour yogurt, and fruit and cereal toppings. Lindy had blueberry yogurt with kiwi, and I had plain yogurt with strawberry, kiwi, and coconut (mmmmm!) By the way, Berryline was founded by Harvard and MIT post-docs! I think nothing is more refreshing than cold, sour yogurt, heaped with fruit. (If frozen yogurt is not your thing, then in this hot weather I'd recommend going to your nearest J.P. Licks and trying their new Fresh Banana Oreo flavor. Lip-smackingly delicious.)

Then we strolled for a bit around Harvard Square, stopping by at Tokyo Kid and Black Ink. It reminded us of the long trek we made to Harvard and Porter Square freshman year. It was nice catching up with my old roomie.

And since my friend Tracey works with Lindy's best friend from high school, Lindy got to have another surprise reunion. Yay for sunny weather, walks outside, and catching up =)

tickled pink

Oops, I forgot my Monday archive from the past. I've noticed that some of my favorite bloggers are dyeing their hair pink recently, including ljc. This makes me miss my pink streaks from this summer. My streaks only took a few months to fade to orange (even though I followed all of the things my hairstylist told me, like using a special color shampoo, washing my hair in cold water, wow, was that painful), and so at the end of last September I just dyed it all black again.

The downside was that I couldn't wear a lot of my clothes because they clashed with my hair... well, maybe I'll try again when I'm in a position to get a whole new wardrobe =P

"is it dangerous to be too beautiful?"

i look forward to watching ugly betty on fridays, with my lunch. i was reminded today of how entertainingly self-centered amanda is. she's such a refreshing foil to betty's sweetness. and she always has the most stunning outfits.

i want to get in the habit of drawing more, and work on capturing the essence of a personality-- so i'm going to be drawing mini-portraits of my favorite t.v. characters, and amanda is first!

cute (and comfortable) thing of the week

Warning: this just might be much more information than you wanted, especially if you are a guy. If you don't like reading about girly things, please move along =P

i don't normally use my blog as a place to promote products, but i consider this post as a possible public service because maybe lots of other girls have had problems finding bras that are comfortable and cute as opposed to sexy and nearly unbearable (i.e. designed with actual girls in mind.)

i've been wearing a bra for half of my life. and i've tried many different kinds, from many different stores, but they've all had problems. some of them look weird on me, most are uncomfortable on me, and plenty are both. this difficulty in finding a good bra (even in stores where lots of women shop, like victoria's secret) had lead me to believe that my chest must be shaped funny.

but it turns out that aerie, by american eagle (the word play is cute, yes?) makes bras that come in really cute colors and patterns, fit well, and are so comfortable. polka-dotted? striped? with a heart pattern? baby blue? they've got it all. they pay great attention to detailing-- there are little bows on the fronts of the bra, sometimes a little bird shaped charm, a different cute pattern on the lining of the bra, and underwear that matches. their "hannah" bra is the only bra that i've had in my life that i've liked enough to advocate in public. the insides of the stores are cozy, cute, and inviting, the staff is friendly, and it is just an overall nice experience. interestingly, american eagle makes the only two-piece bathing suit that i've found to fit well on me.

well designed, cute products, of ALL kinds, really make my day.

old news

Kenton's dad is an architect and designed a vacation house in Arizona. Kenton invited me to go see it on my long weekend. It was impressively artistic (but I'm not going to post pictures of someone else's house on my blog, so you'll just have to believe me.) We had a wonderful dinner at a restaurant called "The Painted Horse", treat of Kenton's dad and stepmom. I tried foie gras for the first time (soo deliciously fatty!)

We spent Earth Day at the Grand Canyon. It's so expansive that the canyons have canyons (which have canyons). Like every national park I've been to before, it would be nice to go again and explore some more. (Before you ask, I still got work done that weekend, on the plane and on a much-softer-than-my-dorm-room-bed bed.) At night in an empty unlit parking lot in the park, I saw more stars in the night sky than I had ever seen before. It was amazing.

Arizona is a very sunny place for someone used to dorm room lighting (thus the squint).



I didn't blog at all the fall semester, and there are a lot of things to catch up on (interesting places visited, neat projects i worked on.) So Mondays from now until I'm caught up are back tracking days =P

Last semester I took a media lab class called Tangible User Interfaces (vs. GUI interfaces.) The point of the class was to rethink the way we interact with everyday objects. For the final project concept, my group wanted to attach tails to people and objects as a way of conveying their "mood". Implementing a person-sized tailed proved difficult, so instead our example implementation was a tail attached to a (totally functioning) old-style alarm clock. The tail wagged in panic while the alarm went off to wake you up, swayed happily if you turned off the alarm, and thumped in annoyance if you snoozed too often. I really like the idea of a world where every household object has a personality.