Well, it's been a full month and half since I've updated. Whoops. Sorry bloggies.
I'm in Seoul, South Korea. It's 10am. But to you, it's 8pm the night before. Weird, right?
I'm with the Stewarts, and it's wonderful.
My luggage finally arrived at 3:30am last night. What's funny to me is that NOTHING opens before 10am, but it's no-big-deal to make deliveries in the middle of the night.
The signs, people, the signs are awesome.
More updates to come. Well, maybe. I'll think about.
Co-worker #1: "What are you doing to wooarking? Worning. WORKING today?!" Co-worker #2: "You want me to put out road-flares until you finish construction on that sentence?"
"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns." ~George Eliot
Summer is waning fast, and it feels like it was hardly here at all. Normally, I hold fast to the swimming pools and barbeques, sundresses and flip-flops, ice cream and late-nights on patios. But this year, I'm ready for the change. My heart can feel the coming turning of the seasons, and it knows it will change more than the weather.
I'm excited for...
1. New adventures. In church and community, new relationships and neighborhood, and foreign countries (South Korea!). 2. Flannel. 3. Honeycrisps. The Ferrari of apples. With gouda or caramel... but not all together.
4. Pumpkins. Hell-yeah-I-love-pumpkins. Pumpkin pie, pumpkin bread, pumpkins on my porch, pumpkin in my lattes, pumpkinpumpkinpumpkin.
Some things I have already been enjoying...
1. All things Arrested Development. I think I've said the Buster-line "It walked on my pillow!" at least ten times in the past week. And this classic little picture (via Unruly Things, I think?) is just awesome.
First, it's just absurdly GORGEOUS outside, and I'm sitting here, with no windows, suffocating in fragrance.
Second, some background: a few months ago, a couple of my co-workers were sitting in an office chatting when a toxic-strength floral scent began to pour from the vents (think movie-poisonous-gases-style). They cough and cover their faces and co-worker #1 says to co-worker #2, "Are we going to die?"*
Fast-forward to today, whilst sitting at my desk, suddenly my head begins to ache and my throat begins to burn as I'm assaulted with a just HIDEOUS scent. Think, something like a cross between a Glade-plug-in and any scent from a Crabtree and Evelyn store (adored by Grandmothers and Victorian-era enthusiasts the world over). I remark on the rudeness of the smell and both of my office-mates agree that it is offensive and deadly. Not 30 seconds later, a coworker in another room yells out, "WHAT IS THAT WONDERFUL SMELL?"
Classic. Couldn't have been better if it were scripted.
*It should also be noted that this is the origin of this phrase that I now use frequently.
Nooowwww, to get my mind off of this death-cloud of fragrance, some other things:
1) I'm moving out of my dear Garfield house this weekend. And I'm sad. I keep meaning to write about it, but it clearly hasn't happened yet.
2) Project Runway premieres tonight! Boom! No promises on the PR-posts this time around, though. I mean, I'll have class and crap.
3) And a couple of pick-me-ups. Because I'm drowning in fragrance!!!! First, baby sea turtles!!!! When I was in NC last week, we visited the Topsail Turtle Hospital and I got to see real, live sea turtles. Naturally, I've had baby sea turtles on the brain since.
4) And finally, a little Kanye for your day. Yes, I know it's Thursday. But I just LOOOVEEEE this song. And you should too. :)
Jarrod reminded me this morning of a culinary fiasco that we witnessed in DC back in January. A woman at the Smithsonian cafe was eating a slice of pizza with a whole bratwurst on top, covered in parm and ranch. Woof. We got on this topic because of a sign I saw in a window of a Long John Silver's (I KNOW) that said "Caution: hot dogs at this establishment contain milk." WHAT?! That's filthy. So sick. Why? How? Dairy in what form?
I want to wear a pair of these around, but I'm not sure it would fly:
You may remember her from her song "Charm Attack" from 1999. Well, she came out with a new album last year, and I found her when she opened for Ray Lamontagne in October. And I confess that her album, "Thirteens", has been one of the select few that has managed to stay on the rotation all year. Here is a live performance from a show in New York, but she does have a couple of videos on YouTube.
