February 2011
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“torn between wanting to stay and wanting to go and worried it will be the wrong...”
– story people. brian andreas. (via everytimeiblink)
Current story of my life. I’ll break someone’s heart either way, and mine will be broken and rejoice simultaneously. How ironic to read this as I sit in a San Fran hotel room. More to come on cryptic meaning.
January 2011
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Momiji! ^_^
A belated Christmas present came in today from one of my dearest and most thoughtful friends. I squealed with excitement!
Her name is coco, and she is a Momiji vintage doll. Not only is she “coco crazy for springtime in Paris,” as seen on her arrival box, but she likes bicycles built for two.” I am a Francophile (I met my best friend in French class!), and I love Kokeshi...
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Pearls of wisdom, courtesy of Caribou Coffee.
Ages upon ages ago (or months, whatev), I met a girlfriend for coffee as I went “home” for a visit in my college town. We met at Caribou, the in-between our two locales, and enjoyed a lovely hours-long “Asian girl bonding session,” as she amusingly and accurately calls it.
Now, I’m a sucker for all things that pull on the ol’ heartstrings, clichés and all,...
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United Airlines: vintage style.
ofanotherfashion:
An advertisement for United Airlines “stewardesses” that ran in Black women’s magazines in 1965. (For more on the “very un-uniform evolution of stewardess dress,” see Worn Fashion Journal, issue 11).
As a currently employee, I love seeing the old ads. Precious, and it makes me forget about the crazy hours, and grumpy...
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I AM Asian! I am...aren't I?
A free Friday night! Dinner with girlfriends! A chance to go out sans uniform and *gasp* not drive to/from/around an airport! Margaritas! Win.
Though it was kind of an off night. One girl was sick, one could feel the blessed PMS symptoms coming, and one has been super-stressed about jobs for months, and it’s showing on her face, in her expressions, in her lack of focus and sense in even the...
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“One day you’re enjoying your life; in the next, you’re wondering how you...”
– Hitch (2005). The ultimate goal for the ultimate romantic, and we can’t control the path to this one whatsoever.
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“Wealth is not what you have but what little you need.”
– Found in a girlfriend’s list of favorite quotes. It especially resonates with me when I deal with people who look down on me for what I do, because they live to work while I choose to…not live that way.
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“All life is just a progression toward, and then a recession from, one...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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