venus and mars

How girls deal with issues:
-obsessing
-imagining every possible scenario
-coming up with a plan for every possible scenario
-trying to talk about it but running into a wall of passive aggressiveness from other party
-never actually talking about it due to said passive aggressiveness
-continuing to obsess until 1) resolution (I've heard mythical stories that resolution actually exists but have yet to see it myself), or 2) excessive amounts of time pass and the issue fades

How guys deal with issues:
-passive aggressiveness
-inaction
-unresolved awkwardness
-ignoring the issue until it fades, i.e. excessive amounts of time pass
-what issue?

Lesson #1: Clearly the guy wins every time, even if he has to wait >6 months for the issue to fade.
Lesson #2: Lack of resolution does not bother guys.
Lesson #3: "Women are crazy; men are stupid." This is a true statement.

addictions

-12-packs of fat yellow Sharpie Accent highlighters
-12-packs of blue PaperMate FlexGrip Elite ballpoint pens
-nytimes.com
-my bed, excessive pillows and all
-Eatzi's four-cheese gourmet bread
-Ben & Jerry's New York Super Fudge Chunk
-the way reading J.D. Salinger makes me feel
-people-watching while "studying" at coffeeshops
-wallowing in angst and ennui
-online browsing/shopping at shopbop and shopepic
-the post-workout/post-shower feeling (but not the process)
-lean, chiseled, scruffy, dark-haired men (extra points if a musician)

so sad

I need to buy new clothes. Not because I am a girl or even fashion-conscious. More because I am too fat for my jeans.

rocker crush

Francis Healy

-is lead singer/songwriter of Scottish band Travis

-has global vision and does charity work for "Make Poverty History" (idealism is sexy!)

-has stolen my heart

Pre-existing infatuation with rockers/musicians + winter vacation infatuation with European accents = Francis Healy. I know, it's so cliche. The path to my heart is definitely still through my stomach, but I think there's a hidden back route through my ears... um, I mean sensitive artist's soul. I am dangerously impractical in love (lust?) when it comes to a guy and his instrument.

theme

currently playing/listening:

if i told you a secret
you won't tell a soul
will you hold it and keep it alive
cuz it's burning a hole
and i can't get to sleep
and i can't live alone in this lie

so look up
take it away
don't go down the mountain
if the world isn't turning
your heart won't return
anyone, anything, anyhow

so take me, don't leave me
take me, don't leave me
baby, love will come through
it's just waiting for you

i stand at the crossroads
of highroads and lowroads
and i got a feeling it's right
if it's real what i'm feeling
there's no make believing
the sound of the wings of the flight of the dove

"love will come through," travis

back from europe

Pictures

London
Brussels
Amsterdam
Cologne, Germany
Lucerne, Switzerland
Paris