sorry sorry sorry sorry

sorry?

good lord. it's been almost 2 weeks since a post.

classes are keeping me too busy to post lately...as well as me being an obama nut and running around town yelling, "YES WE CAN!" and doing various volunteer duties.


forgive me?

help, please?

fall [ha! more like summer: the sequel here in t-town] is just beginning, but miles and i are trying to get the planning underway for our two-week trip to europe next may.

paris is an absolute, hands-down, no compromising city i want to visit, so i need some suggestions on cheap hotels/hostels, please! i pretty much have the "activities" taken care of, price-wise, etc. so far, some top cheap contenders are the modern hotel, the hotel orient, and a few of the many citea hotels. please, please, please offer your advice! what we need is a room:

1. that can fit 2 people in it, durkaDUR.
2. that is relatively clean. no creepy-crawlies in the sheets, please.
3. somewhat close to points of interest in paris or at least in a location close to the metro.
4. that is CHEAP. [we are poor. art history major + jazz studies major + lack of giant salaries = lack of money]. the highest i'd like to go is maybe, maybe $130 per night.

or maybe you know some good park benches?

*note: the whole french-english thing isn't a big deal. i've taken five years of french so having a hotel with a mcdonald's inside of it [do they do that?] isn't really necessary. you get the picture.


miles is interested in finding a good jazz festival to go to. the websites i've found are a bid hazy on the details...but one that seemed like it would fit in our time range was the international jazz-sur-vie festival. any info on that would be helpful! and if you know of any other music festivals, etc. that take place in paris or france for that matter at the beginning of may i would love to hear about them!


the cannes film festival will take place while we're in europe (more towards the tail end of our trip), so we're hoping to do that...


we hope to hit up a couple other cities [low budget means cutting out some locations] like copenhagen, london, amsterdam, madrid, and possibly rome or florence.



please, please, please let me know if you have any information on traveling to europe [paris, copenhagen, etc.] whether it's about hostels, where the best croissants are, must-see shops, train travel, or anything else you might have to offer! There's only so much answers.yahoo.com i can take.



happy weekend!



xx,
sarah

who ya gonna call?

spending my first day back in tallahassee/sunday with these boys [and the boyfriend, of course]:





happy sunday!



xx,
sarah

miami, day one

this blog is evidence that i did not succumb to the death that is the (south) florida turnpike. [note to self: red bull makes it aaaaaaall better]

today i traveled with my aunt and uncle to west palm beach for the current exhibit at the norton, and holllllly moley. look what they have there. permanently:





yes. that is a custom chihuly piece contained in the ceiling. it's made up of almost 700 individual glass sculptures.

are you drooling yet?

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on the way back from wpb we stopped at ikea.
BONKERSLOCOwithNUTSONTOP.

maybe you've been in an ikea store. i had heard that they were big, but this was a beyond massive building. i've never seen so many things crammed together. but it was magical. too bad my shopping add kicked in causing me too get so excited and overwhelmed that i neglected to buy anything.

thankfully my spending habits will be suppressed once i head back to tallahassee due to the fact that the closest ikea is either in atlanta or orlando. woopdeedoo.

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one word: sephora.

i have that "kid in a candy store" moment every time i walk into sephora.

tallahassee offers no beauty essential relief unless it comes in the form of the usual department store yaddayadda and lipsmackers/covergirl/nyc brand crap at walgreens.

sephora is by far my makeup mecca.

if my bank account would allow me, i'm sure i would shell out another $100 before i leave miami in two weeks.

thank goodness for being broke?

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hope you're having a great weekend!


xx,
sarah

get 'em while they're hot

obama merch on urbanoutfitters.com:







congrats, obamaramadingdong.
ttown is already feeling the obama fever!


xx,
sarah

show and tell

wear yo party on yo sleeve.

these tees just popped up on urban outfitters' website.

who doesn't love a soft, heather grey "PE tee"?

and it's a conversation/argument starter to boot.

[though $28 is a little steep for something i could do at home to my beloved tri-blend aa deep v if i was bored and feeling confident about my painting skillz...but hey, i love you, uo, so here's 28 bones not to mention s&h to mah house in ttown]

sorry the model isn't quite in that wakeywakey-eggsandbakey mode yet.

lady needs a little sleep...or just some caffeine.

maybe they'll bring in some of the other political party symbols for t's later on?

hmm.

xx,

sarah

t-town represent

caitlin, nylon's recently graduated [fsu] fashion intern, posted some tallahassee street styles in her blog.

and included one of the baristas from all saints. what?:


awesome.

in other news:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY CARLY KLEIN LOVERGIRL!

i'm hoping i can make it to dinner, chubbers and all, with help from my new best friend, oxycodin.


xx,
sarah