– the beautiful fall weather, albeit it’s the st. louis weather is kinda crazy and unpredictable. The leaves make me ridiculously happy. I love it when seasons change. I get way too excited 🙂

– related to the above: wearing knee socks, tights, boots and scarves!

– Canon S95: it’s love at first sight, there’s no other way to describe it. It’s just…ridiculously awesome. I love it.

– Law school: it’s a love and hate relationship. I love it when I get all excited calculating damages and discussing Coase theorem, and finding the common ground between torts, contract, and property. I hate it when I get only 5 hours of sleep thanks to a memo. But I also love making the arguments for the memo. I just hate writing it. See my point?

– (almost) Fall break…need I say more?!

– my new hot drink maker: hello frothy hot cocao, mocha, and caramel apple cidar 😀

– Bailey’s Chocolate Bar: every time i go to that place I feel like I died and went to chocolate heaven.

– new make up (urban decay eye shadow and eye liners) and new jeans (Express still fits me like oh-so-perfectly)

– friends. enough said ❤

I miss New York, London, and Duke. Sometimes I miss these places so much it almost hurts, and I can’t help it.

St. Louis simply does not compare to New York. The vivacity of that city is so hard to leave behind. I miss the nights spent on Times Square, the afternoons strolling down Broadway, and even all the times I got terribly lost in the city.

And London…I would love to live there again in the future. Not as a poor student, but with a full time job and hopefully a nice income. I miss the beautiful buildings, the history at every corner, the magnificent museums, and the perfect lounges that serve the most delightful cocktails.

Duke. I had no idea I would miss Duke this much. I never realized how spoiled I have been for the past four years. And every email I see an email from a Duke listserve, I inevitably feel a slight twinge in my chest.

I never expected to miss any of these places…but I do terribly so.

I can’t believe how little I’ve done in the past two days. This is what happens when I don’t have school, work, or friends to meet up with. I turn into a hopeless couch potato and watch way too many youtube videos. So, in an attempt to get out of this slump and actually get some stuff done…I’m making a pledge to do the following tomorrow:

1. laundry
2. cleaning the apartment: floor & bathroom
3. get the UPass (maybe)
4. finish unpacking my clothes
5. start drawing (yay for new art supplies!!)
6. take photos for my beauty blog

Let’s see how many of these I can get accomplished tomorrow. I feel like I should create some sort of extra incentive for myself, like maybe a present of some sort? (Yes, I know I’m ridiculous…how do I gift myself o_O?!)

Sonnenschein class ended last saturday with a big banquet that launched everyone into food commas. I’m pretty sure there were plans to head out to the town for some post-dinner celebration, but everyone was just ready to go home.

Ever since then life has been blissfully relaxed. I cooked dinner for the very first time in my new apartment on Sunday. At the risk of sounding arrogant, I must admit that I’ve missed my own cooking XD. I also made a few trips to the movie theatre, Walmart and Blick’s. I saw Inception last week and Eat Pray Love a couple of days ago. Inception was one of those rare movies that actually lived up to all the hype, but I can’t say the same about the latter. The best thing I can say about EPL is that it was rather thought provoking, but it sadly lacked a tight plot line that is needed to keep the audience awake. I’m sure it is a very good book thought.

Trip to Blick’s was oh so much fun and brought me back to my childhood memories. I played with markers, pencils and pastels, while picking out the products that I once used when I was obsessed with drawing. I don’t think I ever thought it was an obsession, in fact I distinctly remember thinking to myself as a teenager that I seldom had any obsession. Looking back now, I’m quite certain that I was indeed obsessed. It was all I did from when I first arrived in the States at age 10 all the way until high school. Somewhere between moving to Solon, trying to prove myself in a new high school, and stressing out about colleges art quietly slipped away.

Then I saw those markers in OfficeMax, and again at Blick’s, and I remembered how much I have always wanted to have them. It also made me insanely nostalgic and I felt almost as if these markers could bring me back to my childhood. I ended up getting two sets of PrismaColor markers (one from OfficeMax and one from Blick’s – they were both on sale and one came with a set of 12 color pencils and the other came with a set of 8 brush tip markers), two sketch books (one hard covered bounded, and a soft covered), pencil sharpener and some ink pens. I don’t know if I’m going to go back to anime drawing – I might have grown out of that after all (but you never know). Right now, I think I’ll just draw whatever comes to mind.

My current project will be creating a fashion diary, cataloging all my clothes (at least the ones I still wear). It might sound strange, boring or dorky, but moving around so much in the last couple of months made me realize that I simply have way too much clothes. Worse yet, I can’t remember every piece because 1) there are too many and 2) I’m always stuck with tiny closets and generally a lack of space to organize all my clothes so that I know exactly what I have (and don’t have). Being the economic intj dork that I am, I thought that this would be a fabulous, dual-purpose, project 🙂 My dear friend Anne suggested that I post these illustrations periodically on a blog (like…tumblr); if all goes well (that is I don’t get lazy or super critical), you might start to get virtual (and maybe abstract…) glimpses into my closet, sort of.