I just bought this fabric:

To make this dress:

So yeah, I'm pretty excited about that. THERE'S SO MUCH GOING ON IN MY LIFE RIGHT NOW Y'ALL. Obviously.

I know all my posts have been about guys lately but I can't help it. Other things in my life are pretty stable so it's what I think about. But really all I want to talk about right now is that moment when you meet someone and you start a REALLY good conversation with them by saying "pants are hard" and then you're talking about gentrification in northeast D.C. and a bunch of other things and you want to keep talking and then you ask them a question that brings up the fact that they recently made a major life change because both of their parents are in bad health and then you feel awkward about having brought it up inadvertently but then the conversation continues and it's still great and you start thinking "it's colder than ANTARCTICA out here" and "what do I do with this plate of half-eaten cheese ball I'm holding" and "hey, maybe he'll ask for my number or something and we can continue this conversation another time and some place warmer" but then he doesn't and it's wrapping up and you're standing there in the bitter cold watching him walk away and thinking "well, that was disappointing" because it was. And then you come home and write a run-on sentence about it. Yeah, you know those moments? They're the worst.

Update: and THEN you find out he's 40 and a high councilman and you have a friend sneakily try to set you up anyways.

New umbrella (this is obviously exciting news)

On the way to work this morning, I realized my umbrella is broken. It's just a free umbrella that my dad got from one of the hospitals where he works, so no big deal (but kinda because it's my Chattanooga umbrella). Anyways it doesn't close right, I think the stick is detached from the canopy somehow, etc... So I started looking for a new umbrella, and discovered that overstock.com sells umbrellas THAT LOOK LIKE SAMURAI SWORDS. Yes please duh of course I want one. So I BOUGHT ONE. I'm so excited. Stop judging me.

Can't sleep and I just narrowly avoided falling out of bed in a sleepy delirium.

Now that I've found stable employment and have a passably safe place to live, my only life goal is to avoid cankles, no matter the cost.