Cuties

Look at these adorable little succulents! I bought them at Home Depot on Sunday and then planted them in tiny candle holders. I'm in love.

porridge corral

For no good reason whatsoever, I really dislike the girl who works at the front desk of Biology Headquarters, downstairs. She's really a nice person, probably...but she just seems so totally not capable of performing her job tasks and I despise her. She wrote me this email today. I successfully resisted the urge to reply, "Thanks Kassandra... But why did it take you 20 days to respond to this simple question? Your skull is just a porridge corral because your brain is such mush."

**Please ignore this retarded formatting. Blogger hates me and I don't want to figure out how to fix it because its time for me to leave work.**

From: XXXXXXXX@MIT.EDU

Subject: Re: Biostaff Email List

Date: March 30, 2010 2:29:51 PM EDT

To: sbeam@mit.edu

You have been added, there haven't been any colloquium announcements yet. THe next colloquium is 4/6 due to spring break.

Kassandra TXXXXXX

Department of Biology Headquarters

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue., 68-132

Cambridge, MA 02139

617-253-XXXX

P Please consider the environment before printing this email.

On Mar 10, 2010, at 11:13 AM, Samantha Beam wrote:

Hi Kassandra,

I had stopped by a few weeks ago and asked to be added to the biostaff email list. I haven't been getting any of the emails though, so I'm wondering if maybe there was a typo or something? My email address is sbeam@mit.edu. If you could make sure that I'm on the list from now on, that would be great!

Thanks!

Samantha

Samantha Beam

Office of Cathy Drennan

Building 68 Room 680

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

Phone 617-258-7851

Rain Rain Go Away, or I'll Punch You in the Face

It is disgusting outside today, so I'm writing in all yellow. It is currently 12:53 pm, I'm eating my lunch, and it is literally as dark as night outside. And it's pouring rain. Sick. I am so tired of this weather!

Here are a few bright spots in my day:

1. Berryline's flavor of the day is raspberry and I've already decided that I WILL be going there after the gym tonight.

2. Today is Passover and my Tuesday class professor is Jewish, so no class for me tonight! Which, this is actually my favorite class so I am a little sad, but its nice to have free time too.

3. Cathy keeps having closed-door meetings today, so I can blog and surf the interwebs as much as I wish.

4. There is French Vanilla Coffeemate waiting for me in my fridge at home.

That is all. Thanks for reading.

True Life: I'm an Elf

leave room for cream: an ode to my fatal attraction

Coffee...

I've always been fond of you.

Coffee...

I put cream in your for the first time on Friday.

On a whim.

It was amazing.

I thought I didn't like dairy in my coffee but I guess that just applies to stupid milk.

Cream.

I love you.

Cream.

You are going to send me to fat camp.

It is my birthday.

I turn 25 today. Shep is celebrating by filling the air with the most noxious, offensive doggie farts I've ever experienced. Look, they're so bad you can literally see the scent particles in the air:

this is like, SO awkward, but...

Yuck, I don't even want to admit it. But...reluctantly...I will confess that one of the fashion blogs I read mentioned American Eagle today, and I was like, "Oh, that old place that I loved when I was in the 9th grade? No one will know if I secretly go to their website and look around." So I did...and I liked some stuff. Actually several things. I'm literally shivering with fear as I type those words. I decided I was too old for that place a DECADE ago! What's next, I'm going to try to squeeze back into The Limited Too??

lunch today = mehhhhh

WeightWatchers mac and cheese is inappropriately named. It should be called "mac and something." Because I don't know what this yellow stuff is, but I know it is NOT cheese.

What would Lisa Love say? Nothing, she'd just vomit.

How did Lauren Conrad manage to do such a TERRIBLE job on her Kohl's line? Don't tell me you don't laugh when you look at this stuff:

Could it be any more Kohl's-from-1996-in-the-"mom"-department looking? No. It couldn't. It's terrible.

And I really expected better from LC. I always loved what she wore on the Hills. And I know it's Kohl's, so there's sort of the perfunctory cheap-looking-ness that has to be stamped onto anything they sell. But Vera Wang has a Kohl's line that is frequently pretty cute. LC - you could have done better. You SHOULD have done better. You let me down.

anger face

I HAVE BEEN THE VICTIM OF A THEFT! Get ready for some complicated math here...

On Monday I brought 4 frozen Chicken Tikka Masala lunches (from Trader Joes, SO GOOD, if you haven't tried them you should) to work with me and put them in the freezer with "BEAM" scrawled beautifully across their shiny cardboard.

At lunch time, I ate 1 of them. There were 3 left.

On Tuesday I brought a chicken salad sandwich with me and ate that for lunch, thusly had no reason to go in the freezer so I don't know the status of my CTMs that day.

On Wednesday at lunch, I went to get another CTM to pop it in the microwave...AND THERE WAS ONLY 1 IN THE FREEZER! That means 2 were missing!

So I didn't know what to think... Could someone have moved them? Mistaken them for their own? Eaten them with the intention of replacing them? I was all worked up and didn't know what to do. Eventually I decided to leave an emotionally-and-accusatorily-ambiguous note on the freezer door to see if the culprit would step forward.

Today is Thursday and I have received no compensation for my loss. SOMEONE owes me $6!

Then, I got more news. Mishtu says that Cathy has ALSO had some things stolen from the freezer, including a macaroni and cheese! So there's someone who has been thieving from us repeatedly! I am mad!

Tonight, I'm baiting the criminal. I left a can of Cherry Coke Zero in the fridge and I'm kind of hoping that tomorrow morning it will be gone, so that I can leave THIS awesome note in the kitchen:

To the person who has been stealing food from me,

So far I'm missing two chicken tikka masala lunches and one can of soda. I hope you enjoyed them. I'm sure you did, I have great taste in foods.

Why have you been taking my stuff though? Are you poor? If you're hungry and you can't afford your own groceries, by all means, come see me. I have some weird trail mix and a couple cans of soup on my shelf that I'd be happy to give you. But please stop taking the stuff I leave in the freezer. I'm kind of poor too, and grocery shopping for both of us is getting expensive. And besides, if I voluntarily give you food, then after, I am filled with that warm feeling of generosity. If you steal it from me, I'm filled with bad feelings, and I don't get to pat myself on the back for that.

If you can, I would really appreciate having my food replaced promptly. I would also accept $7 in cash.

Also, I know you took some of Cathy's mac and cheese. I'll let her set the terms of that replacement deal though.

Sincerely,

Disappointed

(Also known as Samantha in 68-680)

I shall call her Samantha the Second

If anybody is desperately searching for the perfect birthday gift for yours truly, look no further. It's this little ball of fluff:

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh my heart hurts with cuteness.

it's true, i totally do

warm weather makes me think crazy thoughts

Yes my loved ones, this is a new, text-heavy blog entry. Astounding. This pretty awesome blogger inspired me to get back to the high-art high-horse, so here I go.

I blog a lot about shoes. My friend Sarah blogs a lot about soup, Kendi (above) blogs a lot about her husband and their iphones, Abby-tastic blogs a lot about animals and teeth. I blog a lot about shoes...and food...and Scott. My three loves! :)

Here's a new shoe update in case anyone was concerned that I've been going barefoot. My cutie sister sent me an early birthday present of something I have desired for my entire life: Converse sneakers. I've been wanting them for forEVER but I always think they make my feet look like duck flappers so I don't buy them...and then finally I went for it. "Cassie," I said. "Cassie, buy me some Converse sneakers." And she did. And they're great. Check out how phatly they compliment my chicken ankles:

Other life updates include that the weather has been amazing this weekend/week and I'm about to go on a really nice bike ride in a few minutes. AND I just bought a Taylor Swift song on itunes and another song that I'm embarrassed about so I won't say what it was but maybe you should just know that every day I "wake up in the mornin' feelin' like P Diddy." (Maybe you should also know that Scott sings that to me all the time and he knows all of the words of the chorus.)

Also, just to be clear - I DO frequently wake up in the mornings feeling like P Diddy. :)