best wishes, mba-style.

crafted in powerpoint with love. cheers!

i haven't seen falling snow since 2006.

and now you too can be pseudo-famous.

hope you enjoy this crafty way of wasting time. i made like 37 snowflakes today.

fox has the hardest hitting news.

in order of most to least important stories on the fox dc 10:00 p.m. program tonight:

1) murder in a place historically known for murder
2) hangover cure mythbusters - which ones are bunk vs. which ones really work?
3) dc rollergirls

awesome.

why is the door open? close the door!

just saw a mastercard ad with peyton, which reminded me of how (surprisingly) hilarious he is.

if you need to burn some time, personalize the haircut ad. i needed that pep talk a year ago. seriously, that was the worst haircut ever. fucking bangs.

what would you think?

i was watching wheel of fortune tonight (shocking, y/y?) and saw this puzzle:is it so wrong that my initial reaction was very clearly WEREWOLVES? it's totally due to this. i now realize the fallacy in my argument, but still. "ere...s" will always be werewolves to me. even if the puzzle was categorized as LIVING THINGS.

(asian) public service announcement.

if you see this guy on the right, run. or try to look less asian. his photostream is the craziest thing i've seen since this. if you're still not curious enough to click on the (first) link, just know that he goes by Asian Infatuation.

(i have no idea how i came across this, but i'm trying to erase it from memory)

surprisingly out of touch with suburbia.

i saw this on multiple girls at a mall in the suburbs today. i will leave it at that because it somehow feels wrong to pick on teenagers 10+ years younger than i am. and they could totally kick my ass if they wanted to.


also, nothing says classy like drawing in your commentary with powerpoint.

i really loved my old job.

so much so that when i was getting ready to leave, i was trying to figure out the best way to spend my time. which led me to download the entire first season of veronica mars at work (if you haven't seen it, it's a very engaging way to waste hours at a time). it took an entire week. meanwhile, the boss came in and wondered aloud why the internet connection was so slow. good thing i didn't make the connection until after the fact and by then, i was way beyond the point of feeling badly. then the special v mars-anointed comp got passed around work like the village bicycle until everyone was hooked. it was awesome.

btw, i used to equate my boss with this:


this touching trip down memory lane was brought to you by a random email from said boss that signed off, please keep in tough. awesome.

i am turning into my mom.

i was flipping through a magazine just now and saw this:

well, now you know what i'll be doing for the foreseeable future on sundays, starting january 13th. amazing.

(btw, to make myself feel slightly younger than the probable target audience for masterpiece theatre on pbs who is collectively 457% excited right now, i am also concurrently watching true life: i'm a jersey shore girl)

a genuine conversation.

(watching a pillsbury commercial on tv)

c & m laugh.

m: i wish i was the pillsbury doughboy.
c: what? why?
m (matter-of-factly): so i could float around and rub my tummy and eat cinnabons all day.

if you've seen this commercial, i'm pretty sure this will be a million times funnier.

the most apropo christmas present.

this pretty much encapsulates the extent of my physical education:


good thing i can now wear it on a t-shirt like a badge of honor. it reminds me of the time i received this card from m:


gotta run. jerry's on.

this is my monday to wednesday night.

i don't know how i ever lived without dvr. i guess i only watched half a billion hours of tv instead of the full billion i watch now. m and i literally watched 1.5 seasons of weeds yesterday and now i'm hooked. why isn't season 3 out on dvd yet? these are the problems i fret over. btw, if you aren't watching reaper, then i'm not sure if we have anything to talk about. seriously.

a little slow on the uptake.

if you have no idea what the following means, you MUST watch it. i just saw it last night and it was clearly the best of 2007.

• You could always subscribe to a site like Perfect Ten. I mean that could be anything, it could be a bowling site.
• And it's not even that big of a deal, something like 8 percent of kids do it.
• What, are you trying to be an Irish R&B singer?
• Yours would be too... if you were a man.
• Yeah... they said that would happen in Health Class.
• It's like a division sign... I just wish you would take those off.

this has (everything) nothing to do with my newfound love for michael cera. he is a hawt dancer, though.

resurrected. maybe.

when i was in MS/HS, the gap was the shit. seriously, i even coveted their $13.50 solid-colored, crewneck, long-sleeved t-shirts. but something went really wrong in their design department at the turn of this century and then they enlisted sjp to help them glam up their image. and though i ♥ the ads (she glows in the pretty in pink ones) who seriously has harry winston on speed dial for $$$$ brooches or can show their bra at work (on purpose)? because i may (not) want that job.

anyway this fall/winter, the gap has done a solid job returning to classics and suddenly, i'm buying stuff from them for the first time since 2002. literally. my student loan-driven bank account is extremely pleased. newly coveted items include:

however, all of the kinks don't seem to be worked out just yet (really, gap, are you going to be the one to bring back the poncho?):

whatever. i'm trying to focus on what exactly one wears with yellow suede shoes in the middle of winter, anyway.

(non) catholic observations.

i attended a catholic mass on christmas eve and noticed a giant generation gap among attendees. m and i were clearly two of the very few present that represented generation y. on the other hand, there were about a billion children and half a billion babies, so that seems to bode well for catholicism moving forward. their (grand) parents were also out in full force so i'm curious about whether people my age will return to the church once they start spawning, or whether there really is a gap in generational faith. my guess is the former, but seriously, with the hordes of children present - it was standing room only by the time we got there and i was hanging out in these lovely ladies above - catholicism looks to be in great shape re: recruitment of its next legion of followers.

btw, i only recently realized that all christmas carols were christian. i'm a dummy, i know, but i remember wondering when i was younger (or yesterday) why He was always capitalized (randomly). this is kind of like that time when i found out that one of my mom's "friends" was really my aunt. seriously, i didn't know for like six years. it's hard to infer blood relations when stoic asianness overrides PDAs.

i have a new (inappropriate) crush.

just got back from seeing juno, after missing multiple free previews of it both nc and dc. the entire movie is incredibly endearing, from the funny/touching storyline to the perfect cast to the indie soundtrack, a la garden state/last kiss, etc. i'm guessing that juno & bleeker are going to be the next napoleon & deb-style halloween costumes of 2008. more to the point, michael cera is the cutest thing ever and i definitely have a crush on him although my imdb stalking tells me that he is not even 21 yet. and that i first saw him when he was like 11 in arrested development. unfortunate. my stalking skillz also told me that michael cera is dating this girl:


this just goes to show that having an asian lady on your arm (especially with black plastic glasses) really ups your hipster cred. i mean, michael cera is doing it.

btw, i'm using my period for evil.

i'm sorry, does the title make you feel awkward? because i just saw a commercial for tampax (aside: the soup is SO spot on tonight) that ended with the tagline, use your period for good. i think the idea is that a portion of the (tampon) proceeds will go to a charitable organization that provides South African girls with "feminine protection" so they don't have to miss school each month.

keeping girls in school? great idea.

executing the concept by tying it directly to something that i'm pretty sure no one looks forward to each month except margaret (of are you there god, etc. fame)? questionable.

on top of that, tampax is my current worst branded website ever - seriously, vertical navigation links are a good idea? nor did tampax buy the phrase use your period for good on google, so instead of having the corporate website appear at the top of the search results, a slew of blogs hating on the ad campaign pop up instead. awesome.

i grew a b-school vocabulary.

seriously, one of the steepest learning curves at business school that i had to navigate last year was learning an entirely new dialect. coming from a science background, i thought i had newly fabricated words completely down (Drosophila melanogaster, y/y?), but apparently there was an entire sphere of the english language that i had yet to master. favorite new words included:

• utility... how can we maximize the utility of our 30 minute lunch "hour"?
• leverage... i'm going to leverage the hell out of that sweater.
• space... my analysis of a 1968 HBS case provides revolutionary, actionable recommendations centered around John Deere's aggressive expansion into the women's lingerie space. and Precious Moments ceramics.
  

when i heard about this, i only wish i had discovered it last year to help me better phrase my naive write-ups. there are definitely a lot of phrases tossed around school that would be considered bullshit by this generator. i adore it.

welcome.

not sure if i'm welcoming you or myself to this project, but this is how we roll. i just wanted a place to share my random observations and interests; i hope that you'll find something of interest, value or humor. cheers!