STYLETHREAD -- LET'S TALK SHOP!

Likes -

- new snow, when everything is so quiet and clean

- Kickboxing, and the way your muscles feel like butter after a really hard workout

- coldstone creamery's cake batter ice cream (especially with strawberries, whipped cream and sprinkles)

- those short, flippant elevator conversations with people you only see in the elevator that leave both of you laughing

- catching a guy check me out (I know, I'm vain)

- Sunday brunch with friends where you order everything fattening on the menu and everyone shares

- Horizon's organic vanilla milk and a muffin at Starbucks while i pretend that I'm reading conlaw and really just watch people walk past the window

- having as much time as I want to put together a killer outfit, and enjoying the compliments afterward.

- storage organizers: boxes, drawers, plastic cases, under-the-bed rollouts, snap-together shelves - I could go on and on - and having every single thing I own neatly tucked into its own little place.

- a long afternoon of trashy tv with someone who will laugh at it with you but not talk during the good parts

- always having someone to eat lunch with (law school is SO high school. You have to grab your friends the first week or you eat alone all year!)

- that moment where your friends see you, stop for a minute, and then say something like "hey, you look really good today"

- MASCARA

Dislikes:

- people who don't wear makeup (I know, I shouldn't judge)

- ok, i also have to throw in people who insist they have to be comfortable at all times and in all circumstances (which always seems to involve looking like s---t) people who wear their pants too short, people who wear one pair of black shoes with everything and people who don't do anything to their hair. Damnit, have a little pride folks

- BULLIES and any sort of hazing mentality; grow up already

- Guys who take up all my "me" time talking to me in a coffee shop or bookstore, then walk off without asking for my number. Why were you sitting there forever? If I wasnt' doing it for you, why didn't you leave? I could have read the paper instead, you know. (my guy friends say this is their policy for not looking desperate, though, so the bozos may have good intentions).

- Overachievers workaholics and the protestant work ethic in general (this is a problem because I'm in law school. where people who weren't hugged enough as children prepare to take revenge on an unfeeling world by, well, working 98 hours a week and driving a beamer).

- Drama queens, who always end up being the type of friend who calls you, whimpering, when she has a hangnail but "forgets" to email you back for a week after you tell her your husband moved out last night.