Rilla

My family has admittedly replaced me with a cat, our family's second pet. Hard to deny, since they adopted her two days before I left, let her rule the house, and she is brown with blue-green eyes. Ahem. The name I chose was a winner, and Ratch and Rilla (short for Marilla, a la Anne of Green Gables) are getting along all right. I wish I had a furry pet of my own, especially on snowy days like today!

Marilla aka Rilla aka Miss Rills aka Frills

Conundrum

I've been thinking a lot lately about where I'll be in the next year, since I will be done with my masters in December and I may be getting ready to start a PhD - I love Boston, but I also really miss New York. And D.C. is another big possibility! I guess, to quote The All American Rejects, I'll leave when the wind blows.

Boston

New York

Washington, D.C.

Courtney&Boston

Boston Public Library with Courtney Dana

The Fairy Shop (sign in window: "Chillin with my Gnomies")

Harvard - this picture may help explain why I would not have been accepted there



Cologne (Not Germany)

After a great deal of cologne shopping the past two weekends (long story...) I created my personal list of approved (and very intoxicating) colognes. These are scents that I can instantly recognize on a man, that simultaneously make me attracted to the man wearing it. Here they are, in no particular order:

• Issey Miyake - L'Eau d'Issey Pour Homme
• Giorgio Armani - Aqua di Gio
• Prada - Infusion de Homme
• Chanel - Bleu de Chanel
• D&G - Light Blue, The One
• Givenchy - Play
• A&F - Fierce

Katy Perry Tribute

Even brighter than the moon moon moon

(taken after work last night)





Stolen (from Courtney Dana)

Weekend hair goal

I'll be around Lincoln Center this weekend for those of you know what that means.... loving this messy side ponytail inspired by J.Crew and how-to'd by JO

PhD = Please.help.Decide

Lately I've been thinking I may seriously want to get a PhD instead of going to law school. Everyone knows I love school - probably too much. My rough plan is that I will apply to PhD programs for fall 2012 (applications would be due this coming December), and then if no one wants me I will take a year to work and study for the dumb LSAT (aka my biggest reservation about law school) and then do law school instead. Thoughts?

Pros:
PhD students don't pay tuition! Law students do
Law school is super competitive - I am not
Once in a PhD program, you do your own thing
Teaching while in program, and usually can find some teaching job after
No LSAT!!
Not having classes with people annoyingly younger than me

Cons:
4 years minimum instead of 3, can take longer
PhD programs are competitive to get into
Law school is very focused and structured but PhD programs aren't
It helps to be published...which I'm not yet
GRE scores still apply for PhD applications- my scores are 'aight' but not the greatest ever
Only schools that have the programs I want are kinda intimidating - i.e. Columbia, Yale, NYU, Tulane, and George Washington

I have

pretty sisters!

TGIF.

This time for Africa

I officially got my ticket for Africa today! I have been getting increasingly excited, since I have another class with the professor and he tells me about what we'll be doing there. The first trip-prep class will be this weekend, so I'm looking forward to see who I will be schlepping around (common Boston phrase, meaning trekking) with. Although we're travelling a lot in the short time we are there, I am extremely excited about two places in particular:

Serengeti National Park and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.

Oh yes.