Official Transitioner

Why don’t we have break up services? Not something that calls your significant other and breaks up with them for you, but something that provides an unbiased opinion. We all have friends that are in relationships that just need to end for everyone’s good, but they don’t believe it.

They’d be more likely to listen to a non-biased source, right? People seem to listen to dating services. (Personally, I think being in the wrong relationship is a lot worse than not being in one, for that matter).

Case in point: So far, everyday I have lived here, the girl in the apartment building next door has had the same argument about her SO on her deck. So I can hear it through my window no matter how hard I try not to. Given the amount of time she spends being upset about this and how distraught she sounds, I think this relationship should end.

Maybe people could submit their friends to it, what-not-to-wear style.

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UPDATE!

relevant quotes pointed out to me during the day:

“It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company” -G. Washington (via Jeff)

“It’s like a relationship. Breaking up is hard to do, but staying in it just because you’re too chicken to drop the axe is even worse.” – Jason F. from 37 Signals (via his book, Rework)

Things I have done in Seattle…

• Walked down the Ave
• Gone to University Village
• Bought books!
• Gone canoeing on lake washington (and DIDN’T fall in the water)
• Saw an awesome apartment with a rooftop deck
• Ate sushi
• Found a summer sublet
• Read a book
• Made major project our design consultancy’s current project
• Went grocery shopping for the staples (tomatoes, mozzarella, hummus, baby carrots, and triscuits, if you don’t know me)
• Watched the West Wing

My Life, in four bags.

Things I am taking to Seattle with me:

• Almost all of my dresses/underwear/skirts
• Some pants and socks and such
• Suit
• Toiletries/Make Up/Jewelry/Straightener/Curling Iron
• Checkbooks, hiring paperwork, maps to where I am staying.

I don’t know. It’s not much different than packing for a trip. I probably forgot at least twelve important things I’ll be buying.

Packing list… mid-week overnight business trip to St. Louis:

Wearing shirtdress, full length slip

• All in the Longchampps Tote
• White dress
• Suit, white button down
• Bronze Aldo Flats
• Black Franco Sarto Heels
• Pajamas
• Swimsuit
• Toiletries

• The Once and Future King
• The Black Swan
• iPod/Phone/Wallet/etc.

I’ve had my blog for almost two years now- if there’s something LOA taught me it’s how to have a regular blog. Browsing through old things (thanks, jet lag!) I came across this list of what I’d read back in 2008… updating, now:

http://blog.ellenchisa.com/?p=194

I’ve read 15 more of them since then (and probably around 200 books total).

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
Zatoichi
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Quicksilver Exposition
Wicked
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake
Collapse
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood
White Teeth
Treasure Island

You always here about wonky Japanese designs. However, in the Tokyo-Narita airport I had to take a photo. (Want to feel really weird? Take out your digital camera in a bathroom stall. You will feel awkward even if you’re doing something completely reasonable, like photographing the controls!)

Seriously. I never knew a toilet had so many functions. My favorite being playing music.

I need a better thing to title this, but I’ve started photographing things I come across on my travels that have particularly interesting (and functional!) designs.

They build colorful canvas structures over playgrounds to keep them cool in Darwin, Australia.

Jetlag brings you some of the highlights of my summer vacation photos.

Singapore is like Hong Kong, but more clean!

Classic Singapore Photo: Singapore Sling at the Raffles bar

This is the West Alligator River. There are actually only crocodiles in Australia. Yes, I take too many photos of the sunset.

This is my favorite sign ever. Also in Australia.