what i've been up to

1) I got new bangs.



2) I was in Chanelle's wedding and Ryan was the photographer.



3) Sean bought a black suit!



4) Sean and I went to Gypsy Hill Park in Staunton and it was BEAUTIFUL.



5) We celebrated 2 1/2 happy, fun years by going to the park, seeing foliage, bickering a little, seeing Michael Clayton and predicting that Tommy Lee Jones will win the Oscar for "In the Valley of Elah," while George Clooney will probably be nominated.

even more boring pages

These are my most recent lifestyles pages. I drew the tree on my Quark page and my editor came over and was like, "where did you download that illustration from?" I was like, "um. I drew it." It was way cool.

pick-me-ups

I want to be Kate Spade when I grow up. Just design china patterns, be adorable and work with artists to make amazingly adorable films and ad campaigns.

On her web site, she has little films the company has made and they are so adorable it hurts that I can't seem to embed them in this post. One was a birthday present for her husband; it features children walking through the woods, reading and pondering famous quotes from the likes of Brecht, Freud, Oscar Wilde, Amelia Earhart and Katharine Hepburn. It was directed by Mike Mills, who dates Miranda July, who made "Me and You and Everyone We Know," and it totally has that same vibe.

The other film, "Blondie," is also adorable. It looks like this:




Go watch now! Click "Projects" and then "To Andy Love Katy." So cute!

more boring newspaper stuff

This is my much snazzier A1 for today. Later this week, I'll post some of my entertainment and lifestyles pages.

Cookie Time! - Troop Beverly Hills

Just a littlefun to start off your day. EDIT: Jenny Lewis is not the redhead who sings. She's the OTHER one.

start spreadin the news

So, last night I did my first A1 AND came in under deadline, with 8 minutes to spare. It's not gorgeous, but it's mine.
Here's the goods!

current excitement

This mini-movie, "Hotel Chevalier," is available for download at iTunes. It's very good and I have a hunch I probably liked that 15 minutes more than I'll like the 2 hours of The Darjeeling Limited. I love all the yellow; I'm in a very yellow phase. Love Wes Anderson's shooting style and dialogue so much. Always understated but stylish.



Sean and I saw "The Kingdom" this weekend and I'm firmly resolved that Peter Berg, the director, could put that haunting guitar music over anything and I'd cry like a baby. He used the same band that scores "Friday Night Lights" and I swear, gets me every time.

whew...almost

so, with the exception of some heavy boxes in my car that I am too tired/lazy to tackle, I am moved.

The apartment is old, shabby, somewhat in the ghetto (on only one of its four sides) and still charming. my bedroom is what sold me on the place and what still sells me.

I promise I will post pictures someday, once I find my camera battery charger (i haven't unpacked anything, I just finished packing up the H-burg apartment).

The move has been all-consuming and fraught with worries, but soon, once I'm unpacked, I can get back to actually communicating with people.

I never realized how hard moving can be when you don't take any time off to do it. It really is a full-time job as it is and I'd never moved before when I only had one full day and a bunch of half-days to do it. Never do that ya'll! Always take a week off!

new home!

I am moving into the above apartment next weekend!

potential problems: i forgot to look and make sure that clawfoot tub has shower option. disasters?
Otherwise, kindly old man landlord has promised to remove ugly wallpaper in kitchen, repaint, fix closet doors and AND I only pay electric, no gas. WOOOT!

The house is way shabby chic (partially b/c the artists downstairs seem to do all their art projects on the porch AND broke the porch swing), but it gets tons of natural light, i have more rooms than I know what to do with (one room I didn't even remember being there!), central air, clawfoot tub, hardwood floors, mantels and a bay window. Now, if I could only start fostering kittens and get Sean in the vicinities, I would have a dream come true!

no widows, ya heard?

just M-A-C and me, I'm a design gangsta.

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