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Making Conversation

Work: “Hi! How are you? Hope you’re feeling better. Just to let you know, we’re implementing some new anti-fraud measurements. So, HR needs to know where you were working between October 2006 and February 2007?”
Me: “Er, I was working for you guys..”
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A few completely unrelated and random links:
+ Is this cake scary or awesome? I […]

Posted 16 July 2008 † Karie § Art § Personal § Popular Culture ‡ Comments (2)

Dedicated Follower of Fashion

Kamicha of Yarned makes me feel that I should
a) go through my entire wardrobe
b) reconsider my aversion to blandness neutrals
c) reconsider my decision to avoid bulky knitwear
d) reconsider my decision to avoid shapeless dresses
e) forget about my hypermobility and dig out my high-heeled shoes
f) re-invent myself as a sophisticated fashionista
but I think I’ll continue […]

Posted 14 July 2008 † Karie § Craft § Popular Culture ‡ Comments (0)

Fa fa fa fa fashion

I like everything to be clean, and gray is clean. Gray is between black and white, so it’s a noncolor, almost. I feel messy and unclean if I wear other colors. - Five New Yorkers Who Only Wear One Colour.
I bet you can find Copenhageners who only wear beige. Or navy.

Posted 07 July 2008 † Karie § Art § Popular Culture ‡ Comments (2)

When I Say Bad, I Mean BAD

Danish blogger Emme has a category of books she calls “matadormix” - “mixed candy”. These books do not ask much of you as a reader: they’re easy to zip through, leave you feeling slightly bloated if you overindulge and there’s a bit of everything in them. “Mixed candy”, indeed.
These past few days I’ve made […]

Posted 05 June 2008 † Karie § Literature § Popular Culture ‡ Comments (3)

Airing the Closet

I don’t know if anybody’s keeping tabs on the Now Reading section of the sidebar. If you do, you will have noticed that it seems to have frozen. Could it really be? Has Ms Bookish given up on reading?
Of course not. I’m just reading books that don’t really fit into my usual categories. Yes, […]

Posted 14 May 2008 † Karie § Craft § Personal ‡ Comments (0)

Saturday Linkage

Last night I went into the kitchen and announced: “I really like Tanzania.” My poor, deluded brain had been locked into dream-space whilst I had been battling it out on Puzzle Quest. While my fingers had been busy pairing up gems and fighting wyverns, another part of me had been in Tanzania on a veranda, […]

Posted 16 February 2008 † Karie § Art § Literature § Personal § Popular Culture ‡ Comments (2)

Oh, Copenhagen

Oh, Copenhagen. How I do not really miss thee but then again I do.
Recently I found Copenhagen Street Style - a Danish blog trying to capture all the hip young things gracing the streets of Copenhagen. Copenhagen is peculiar in the sense that you tend to see muted colours everywhere - black, […]

Posted 31 January 2008 † Karie § Popular Culture ‡ Comments (1)