It’s been a long week, man. Making a magazine is hard. I am majorly drained. Yaaaaaawn.
Yes, we felt the earthquake. I was at work when things started shaking. Our boss announced, “Everybody outside!” and we all ran for our lives into the parking lot. I guess that’s our official emergency plan. A little scary, I [...]

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So, um, I got bangs. 

I’d been considering the Big Chop for the past two weeks, ever since I was flipping through Glamour and landed upon the story “Why You Should Try Bangs.” And I was like, who me? And it was like, yes, everyone looks good in bangs, even plain-Jane supermodels Heidi Klum and Kate [...]

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I’ve been really grumpy the past couple days. It’s partly a quarterlife thing (who am I?), partly a failing economy thing (mama needs new shoes), partly a female thing and partly an I AM CURRENTLY LOOKING AT A CRACKED LAPTOP SCREEN thing.

See?
I don’t know exactly how this happened. I don’t think I stepped on it. [...]

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I posted this in December 2003, just a month after a started blogging and right before I would start my first daily newspaper internship in Palm Springs. (At this time, newspapers still had a pulse. Oh, have things changed.) In a way, reading this depresses me because I’ve lost much of that foolish vigor, but [...]

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Shivani, a good friend since high school, got married this weekend. Every detail was just stunning. I’m still in a trance.
Saturday was her mehndi celebration:

Gasp. She’s a princess. So gorgeous.

Me getting mehndi’d.

Shivani’s sister Kavita.
Then came the big day:

The crowd awaits the prince of the evening, Shivani’s now-hubby Raajan.

Now that’s a grand entrance.

During the ceremony.

The beautiful [...]

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Another really creepy thing I admit to doing (besides rockin’ out at the cemetery) is naming hypothetical children. I mean, I know every girl has her favorite baby names, but I’m pretty sure I’ve taken the whole naming process to another level, especially as I’m so not ready for the actual OWNING A HUMAN part [...]

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… of someone who still doesn’t know what in the heck she’s doing!
To be honest, life has been too chaotic for me to put much heart into this photo class, but perhaps I have learned a few things.

Perhaps. I do find some solace in photographing objects. Humans need to stay still, dangit.

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Much too amused with the color accent function on my new camera (a gift from Matt! It’s pretty pretty pink!):

In other hypercolor news, didja hear it’s coming back??

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Matt and I took a superquick trip to San Diego this weekend as we really felt the need to go somewhere, anywhere. We don’t do too many things together that involve planning or spending or traveling beyond Crenshaw Blvd., so these 24 hours away from the laptops next to our pillows were a real treat. [...]

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- The fact that I can feel a swelling urge to hear Leona Lewis’ “Bleeding Love” just one more time, and then turn to any station on the radio and lo and behold! KEEP bleeding. KEEP Keep bleeding.
- Sausage McMuffins with egg. Why are you so delicious?
- Nail biting
- Not setting my alarm clock [...]

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