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A Day in the Life of a College Graduate

For one of my assignments I had to tell a story using images. This could not have come at a more inopportune time seeing the current status of my darling camera, however, I was able to hunt a temporary one down so pardon the quality of some of the images.

A large thanks to miss Lauren who I can always count on to be just about as crazy as me.

The Graduate

Time: 5:14 pm (yes friends pm)

 

 

  

  

  

  

  

Fact: The coffee shop we went to was indeed packed and I had trouble holding the camera still because I was laughing so hard. Lauren is a rock star though and was totally deadpan the whole time despite the stares.

Fact #2: I didn't read the door until we left

Fact #3: Those rainbow bee slippers of hers really truly do exist.

These are the things that make life fun. Byeeee!!

Monday Mix Tape

It's Monday which more than likely means I rolled out of bed a little grumpy, walked in the rain for a good half a mile, and found solace in my headphones alone until that first cup of coffee kicked in. I have come to love mornings but Monday takes me a bit longer to warm up to. It's an original feeling I know. So to cheer everyone up here's my personal Monday mix tape which of course is not a mix tape at all but rather the trusty 'ol iPod. It was real rainy and I tend to listen to depressing music in the rain without really noticing it.

 

Waves - Holly Miranda

 

The High Road- Broken Bells

 

Everywhere I Go - Lissie

Oviedo - Blind Pilot

Starting - Matt Pond PA

Fact: Matt Pond PA is playing SXSW as is Electric President (eee) and Ra Ra Riot announced they were today too. Grand.

It's almost Tuesday so be happy!

"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." - Mark Twain

My high school years were spent entirely in khaki pants and solid color polo shirts in a whole slew of hues and not a print or flourish in sight. Having a dress code was painfully limiting for me seeing as how I tend to close my eyes when I walk into my closet, pick roughly nine items, and wear them all at once willy nilly. The hilarious thing was I won best dressed my senior year and am photographed being sassy in my polo and khakis that are identical to the daily attire of about 500 other kids. I'm just proud I was able to see the irony then too. Needless to say I have not touched a polo shirt or a pair of khaki anythings since my days as a math challenged drill teamer and blame my current closet and pattern obsession on those years of my life. 

Currently catering to that obsession (see I had a point) is a whole smattering of Spring collections that are making their debuts all over this grand thing called the internet. 

My favs: 

Ruche Spring '10 

 

  

  

Ella Peru Spring '10 

  

 

  

And of course the ever so wonderful 

Dear Creatures Spring '10

 Three different versions of my style. Heck I don't even know what my style is. If it's cool I'll wear it. 

Three exclamation points is just plum unnecessary!!!

 

via Le Quaintrelle 

Studying English and Journalism/PR simultaneously in school instilled in me a love for the comma. I also have this strange habit of attempting to have accurate punctuation in my text messages with full apostrophes and the like. We all slip up and heaven knows the internet has done its best to kill grammar and spelling as we know it but stuff like this is way more funny than it should ever be to me. 

Speaking of which, the use of lol in electronic conversation has bugged me since my AOL preteen years and *gasp* when people SAY lol in polite conversation to your very face? Horrifying. 

"Rachel your crazy" 

"No it's Rachel you're crazy." 

It's a curse and I drive the people in my life absolutely bonkers sometimes. I attribute that to my English teacher of a mother and my getting timeout if a double negative ever dared to escape my lips at the innocent and intellectually poverty stricken age of nine. 

Needless to say I got a giant kick out of "Past Tense" performed by the awesome Barton Carroll who I was fortunate enough to meet through a friend as he wandered into the dusty plains I currently find myself in.

Past Tense - Barton Carroll

His whole performance and album was great. Truly worth looking into. Buy his record at Barton Carroll's Online Store

P.S. Ya'll is exempt from all my rants and raves. It's just such a wonderfully efficient abbreviation. 

Behind the blue eyes...

So I work for Bobbi Brown...and kind of love it. I've done some interesting makeovers in my time including but not limited to...

* One eye brown smokey eyes one eye gray smokey eyes
* One Lady Gaga star over the eye
* One who wanted alternate eyebrows drawn on her eyelids
* Two brides for one wedding
* Three in a random log cabin
* Two magazine shoots
* Three news anchors
* countless men
* One seven year old as requested by her mother
* 19 debutantes
* endless weddings...

Needless to say it's always someone interesting requesting something interesting.  But I will say, it makes my time at work something to talk about.

 

 

  

My personal must haves? Pale pink blush, rose shimmer brick, long wear gel eyeliner in Black Ink, and the entire skincare line. It's really the best stuff there is (not biased I swear I work there because I've loved it so long) and the best part? No animal testing. Now there's a line I can get behind. It's worth checking out Bobbi Brown .

It's like sunshine on your hands!

Currently loving....

 

  

 Images via We Heart It

Yellow nail polish...I bought a bottle of OPI Banana Bandanna last week and was a little hesitant to use it for fear of it looking like nothing more than a sickness on my hands. I'm growing pretty fond of it, however, now I feel compelled to buy a lot more yellow things. On another note...who else hears Gwen Stefani's voice singing whenever they have to spell banana?