jetlaggg

i woke up at 5 o'clock this morning and stumbled around in the half-dark throwing my belongings into my bag. slept in the cab ride there, slept on the chairs in my gate, slept against the window of the plane, my mouth surely hanging open and my book sitting untouched on my lap. i woke up feeling like i'd been drugged - my eyes felt stuck together and standing up felt like the hardest work i've ever done. i dragged myself outside and stood in line for a cab, shivering a bit after the perfect chicago sunshine. the concrete was a mess of puddles and i could see my breath as i stood, waiting, with at least 30 strangers behind me, impatiently as one cab came every 3 minutes. finally i climbed in one, told him where i was going, and fell back asleep.

so here i am, at work, in my rumpled clothes and unwashed hair; the closet was fuller than usual, and i didn't have the energy to move anything or pose, so here's the best i can do today.



dress: h&m
belt: bought at a thrift store in chicago this weekend
tights: HUE
shoes: etsy

tired. tired tired tired. too tired to post more, but i'll be back tomorrow with (hopefully) my brain back intact and more to say about my trip.

xo audrey

birthday cakes

tonight is vanessa's birthday, and i'm going to make dinner for her and a small army at her apartment. i can't wait. my lovely friend linsey turned me on to tastespotting, a website full of beautiful photos of food and amazing recipes to match, and i'm scouring it to find something pretty but not too complicated or time consuming for tonight. after the partying's through, i have to rush home, pack for chicago, try to grab a couple hours of sleep, and hop on a jet plane.



spent an hour or so at the new museum with vanessa last night. they currently have an exhibition up called "younger than jesus," 50 artists from 25 countries, all under the age of 33. a wide spectrum of exhibits from a woman sleeping in an all-white bed in the middle of a room, to photos of survivors of hurricane katrina, to a big led that said "OMG" in blue lights with candles surrounding it. interesting stuff. worth a stop-by, especially thursday nights, when it's free!



dress: AKA, bought from gilt
socks: american apparel
shoes: forever 21
necklace: ebay
belt: salvation army

a quick thank you for the kindness of everyone who reads and comments on this blog. i am blown away by how sweet strangers can be, you guys make my day!

aaaand i'm off. lots to do before tonight and the weekend. have a good one, everyone! happy may day!

putting lipstick on a pig

hee. i just did something silly in the name of swine flu. i saw a girl in anthropologie wearing a face mask, presumably to protect from the disease; i started looking into face masks and found this little piece of amazing.



i found it on hara museum's website. they have lots of pretty little things. of course, it's shipping from japan, so by the time it gets here the "pandemic" will probably be over; but it was only 1,000 yen (about ten bucks) so i figured, why not?

catching up on a couple of blogs today, i stumbled upon this image from elinkan's blog. i think i have a new project. the question is, what should it say?

free thursday

in class yesterday we made truffles l'orange and prepared sheets of pattered chocolate to make boxes out of. these boxes will hold those truffles. frankly i am so tired of working with chocolate already that that's all i'll say about that.

after class i met sprampy at schiller's where she was having dinner and a couple stiff ones with an old friend. we chatted, i had a couple of cocktails that tasted like either strawberry yogurt or that funfetti birthday cake, and we paid our bill and were about to leave when 3 tequila shots arrived on the table. i hate tequila. but i did it anyway, and it was of course this shot that pushed me across the "happy but not drunk" line to the "happy and also kind of drunk" side. hopped in a cab home, crawled into bed, and fell asleep with my computer open. i woke up with such a jolt at 5:23 am (for some reason, abc's website, which was open, chose that time to play a desperate housewives promo. or perhaps i'd just slept through the rest?) that my iphone fell of my bedside table and onto my cold cement floor. okay. it's time to buy a case.



onesie: dalaga boutique in greenpoint
belt: salvation army
socks: american apparel
shoes: pour la victoire
brooch: gift from dee :-)

i had a sweater-jacket over this when i came to work this morning, as there's a bit of a chill in the air, but when i arrived at work the a/c had stopped working over night and it was nearly 90 degrees in the office. i am very grateful for my bare shoulders at this moment.

tonight! new museum with vanessa, dinner after, sleep to prepare for friday, friend birthday madness, and chicago-traveling this weekend.

xo audrey

gilt & alexander mcqueen are conspiring against me

that is the only explanation i can come up with for why he would end up on gilt the day after i get an influx of money into my bank account. it's that conundrum where i technically *have* the money to buy the stuff i like, but it would be extremely irresponsible. to stifle the urge to buy, i will instead post some of my favorites. and drool over them.



not a gilt-er? want to be? are you SURE? (it can be dangerous.) if you do, drop me a comment and i'll send you an invite.

xo audrey

tetris

feeling flushed with a great love of my country (aka my tax return) yesterday, i skipped from work to the anthropologie around the corner. for some reason the store was packed, and the dressing room line was out of control; so i hunted down this skirt and slipped it on over my dress. it fit (although after wearing it this morning, i think i'm going to have to take it in a bit - it sits lower on my waist than i'd like it to) so i took it upstairs, bought it, and decided to have a nice, quiet, night of audrey. i try to treat myself to one of these every once in awhile, since my life is so busy and i am almost always surrounded by people one place or another. i bought a book and walked to the momofuku milk bar, a place i've been dying to try since it was just a "coming soon" blurb on new york magazine's website. anyone who knows me knows that i am a milk FIEND. i crave it the way heroin addicts crave a fix. this is no joke. i have been known to wake up at 3 am, craving milk so hard that i will walk blocks to an open grocery store and chug a half gallon in the aisle. i'm not sure what it means, but i am sure i must have some strong bones.



i had pork buns, pistachio lemon curd cake, and a tall glass of organic whole milk. it was incredible and relatively inexpensive. afterwards, i headed home with my book and read until i fell asleep, nice and early, and had bizarre and scary dreams about the ten plagues taking place in our kitchen at school.



shirt: vintage, from etsy
skirt: anthropologie
belt: anthropologie
shoes: devotte
tights: HUE
necklace: etsy

our phone lines at work are messed up and so i am temporarily relieved of my receptionist duties, as all our calls get forwarded to the chicago office. it is oddly quiet in here (well, unless you count the crystal castles blaring over the speakers in the pit. silent of phones ringing, anyway.)

hope everyone has a lovely wednesday. . .

xo audrey