one more miracle

Today I spent a lovely Sunday afternoon at the outlets with my roomies! I didn't plan on buying much (lol) but came away with this ridiculous haul:

• Shirt from Banana Republic ($11)
  
• Henley from Old Navy ($12)
  
• Deep purple peacoat from Anne Klein ($99 down from $280, oh my god)
  
• Two pairs of jeans from Aeropostale that actually FIT ($42 on a buy-one-get-one-free deal)
  
• Three bras from Bali ($45)
  
• Five bags of cookies from Pepperidge Farms ($10)

SO BASICALLY I WOULD CALL THAT A WIN. The purple peacoat in particular I am soooooo excited about - it's mid thigh length, with this beautiful tiered collar and a belt and UGH I LOVE IT. :') I was sort of idly wanting a new peacoat because mine is all tattered, but when I put this one on I just fell in love. And how can you argue with that price?

Besides being an entirely successful shopping spree, it was just a lovely day with my girls! The weather was SO BEYOND PERFECT, mid 60s with cotton ball clouds and sunshine, and I loved it to pieces. My roomies were chilly but it was just ideal for me. :) And speaking of roomies, I have two new ones! Our two public health roomies moved out, leaving me, Emily and Nichole, so we chose new roomies over the summer and I must say that once again we hit the jackpot. Alex is starting law school with the intent of working in international conflict resolution. She just finished a masters program in BRUSSELS and once spent a semester in Ireland, omg! AND SHE LOVES ALL THINGS JOSS WHEDON, I MEAN WHAT, HOW IS SHE SO PERFECT. HER FAVORITE CHARACTER IS FAITH!!!! She's beautiful and funny and smart and giggly and assertive and I might have a little girlcrush, LOL. But I really love hanging out with her. And Kortni just graduated from UM and is now working in the UM hospital as a research assistant for a neuropsych prof. She's tall and funny and a little absurdist sometimes - she spent our walk home from drinks tonight PRETENDING TO BE A PTERODACTYL, ahahahaha, Emily and I almost broke something laughing. So obviously she's super fun to have around. :D Basically it's an awesome mix of personalities again and I'm so happy! I love having a fun house of roommates, but also my own awesome room so I can retreat whenever I need to.

Hey, look at me, doing a daily update! I'm going to try to get back into the swing of this because it was SO nice to have LJ comments in my inbox again. I promise it won't be all fussball all the time. *g*

In work related news, I have been.... really stressed out and in a bad place recently. Nothing seems to work at all anymore, and I have a research plan to write from my boss and I'm having a hard time with it, and I read some things in the literature that make me seriously doubt my hypothesis, and I've been seriously doubting whether I even want to be a scientist, and etc etc etc. I honestly think that coming for my PhD was kind of the easy way out of an otherwise grueling job search, but I've never been able to envision myself as a bench scientist or a professor in the long term. I'm not sure what I DO see myself as though, is the problem. I've been looking at all kinds of alternative types of employment, but in the meantime, I've still got 4 years of research to do. I really hope I can find the heart to see me through it. I'm sure I'll feel a bit better once SOME experiments start going well again.

...that's it! I should probably go to sleep!

So I've plowed by way through the first 6 eps of SGA. It's so much fun! My thoughts are as follows:

Sheppard is really, really hot, and also adorkable and fun and sexy and I want to smish him. Also, his voice reminds me STRONGLY of Luke Danes from Gilmore Girls. Sometimes if I close my eyes it could BE Luke. It's slightly disorienting, but I love Luke, so it's okay. And this icon is so BADASS, I love it.

Sheppard and McKay are *clearly* married. I mean, they've basically only just MET and they've already got so much chemistry, it's falling out of the screen at me. Of course, I may be biased (I blame Erin and Mona) but EEEE. So adorable.

Ford is deeply random - I mean, he's just this soldier that seems to sit in on their important meetings and go on every important mission, for no apparent reason - but I think he's a total cutiepie. Especially when he gets all impish and smiley :D

FUN! :D

So I went on a marathon shopping adventure with my mom and sis today, and made two very fun purchases. I got myself a GORGEOUS peacoat at Macy's. Calvin Klein, dark green, cashmere blend - just so gorgeous. And on huge sale of course. And then I got myself these completely sexass black laceup boots at a Nine West outlet. And I have pictures!

( Bargain shopping is FUN. In which I pretend to actually be semi sophisticated and hot. Does it work? :P )

Shopping is fun :D Uh, sometimes. It also tends to be somewhat demoralizing, but er, whatever!