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April started of with a party I didn't go to because I had been having this weird fever I probably complained about before - I don't usually keep my complaints to myself. I heard it wasn't good, anyhow, so I'm not very sad I didn't go; I feel like I'm doing the college thing wrong 'cause I'm way too exhausted to get excited about partying. All I want to do by the end of the day is curl up in front of some cinematic masterpiece like "John Tucker Must Die" and eat a Mars bar. Despite this attitude, I actually did go some places this month....

Silk is a lovely fabric. But I never wanted to know that much about it. Still, we went to about a zillion exhibitions dealing with the topic and I don't want to hear a thing about it ever again except for a shop assistant at Chanel describing the inside of a purse to me.

Wearing 5 inch heels and patterned tights for a pizza run isn't the brightest idea I've ever had. See, my friend and I had been to a shop opening and had gotten all glammed up, since it was supposed to go a cool two hours and be inside and everything. But after squeezing through loads of people who may or may not have been important, not able to hear a single spoken word over the sound of a Tove Lo mashup (I really don't like mashups. I'm over here looking forward to my fave part of a song and the DJ totally ruins it for me by changing the pace, leaving me struggling to get back into the rhythm. Don't get the point of that), we realized we really wanted a pizza. And there's this place in NoLita where they do a nice one, and we took the subway but got off too late (I guess we were talking about boys and why they can't text properly. Speaking of that, I was so impatient that I sent a message first (I absolutely need to stop doing that because I'm the first to tell you you shouldn't) and it's been an hour and I haven't got a reply yet so yeah, where was I?) so we had to walk. You should've seen me. People were staring, but as it goes, no one was worried enough to call an ambulance even though I must have looked as if I was in great pain, 'cause I was indeed. I could't stretch my legs because that would've been too much pressure on my feet, so I bent my knees and set foot in front of foot like a pregnant model/hooker, making labor-like noises. Très chic. The pizza guy didn't care though, he seemed to like my tights, so even though we practically fell through the door (I did. My friend could walk like an adult) thirty minutes before closing time, they served us. At some point outside, I'd taken my heels off and gone barefoot, until I noticed that was actually as painful due to concrete being hard and my feet being tortured, so it didn't matter. As I pointed out repeatedly that night, no pain, no gain (of beauty).

Now my loveliest friend isn't texting me back, either. She's working though, so she's got an excuse. But what is it, am I in a bad service area? That might be it, seeing as how I'm sitting on the lower floor where there's never any wifi when you need it. Gosh, the sight of my innocent message sitting alone in the chat is tragic. I'm never doing this again. It's not even that I really believe I'm getting ignored, but as no one's proving the opposite, I'm kinda irritated.
Oh, I'm getting tired of talking about that already. (See?)

Let's get a little more uplifting, shall we? 

A sweet boy I met last summer turned 18 last week and even though I'm just about a year older than him, I use that as an excuse to call him little and ruffle his hair (he's about two heads taller than me but who isn't these days). So he had a party at his house and I put a black dress on, teased my hair to the point it looked ridiculous, patted it down until I looked like a Rock n Roll groupie, and got my car keys. Parking in front of a sign that said "no waste here"; my car isn't waste, is it? I mean, it might not exactly be new, and it's green (now I got a text and it was a girl from my class and I got way too mad at her for a second), but this is such a lovely parking spot I won't give it up. Two kids walk past me and I'm not sure I want to go where they're going because they look like people in school did senior year (a total coincidence, seeing as they are seniors) and I feel fine without a throwback experience. I waited for about five minutes, redoing my lipstick and sending voice memos ("Is my car waste? I don't like to meet strangers"). Then I went, and honestly? It really was a throwback to high school parties, complete with sitting in a bedroom full of weird smoke (my poor dress reeks of the stuff. My hair didn't, surprisingly. I'm talking nonsense here), paper cups (I drove, but I clutched a cup just to have something to do with my hands) and the guests fumbling around on the stereo. Nice in a weird way. Weird in a nice way. I got totally lost on the way back home and already saw myself asking for directions at a gas station while hiding my navigation system (we're not often on the same page of things), but I made it on my own (on my oooown).

Details to come. Stay curious.

Love,

Rosy Smith




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....I hear guys are often really upset about girls not saying what they mean and not meaning what they say. Or not saying anything at all when they mean to. Let's go one step at a time (to not startle them with too much information at once) and examine the latter case, shall we?

At some point or another, in every kind of relationship, an uncomfortable topic comes up. Often, it's us girls who realize the burning need to enquire certain circumstances: Are we official? Do you love me? Do we plan on getting it on next week? Do you always take the cheque? Does it bother you or not?
Now, those sound like they're not going to be too much fun to talk about. And bluntly phrasing them like I just did tends to come out weak and girly and "let's get married this summer and don't you dare invite your mother"-esque. Sorta.

And that's why one should follow Ronan Keating's advice: "You say it best/ when you say nothing at all".
My take on this is to hope for a soulmate connection that leads to telepathic communication on a mute level. For instance, I want a certain somebody to take me out in a certain way on Sunday. However, I neglected actually telling him so, because I don't want to be bossy, I want to be surprised. So when he dropped me off yesterday, I whispered "Sunday?" in my best movie starlett voice, and he confirmed "Sunday" back at me. It didn't sound very special when he said it, though. Still, I didn't feel like elaborating on the dozen questions that occur with that single word. So I honestly hope that he got all I meant by noticing my breathy tone and slight lash fluttering.

Chances are, he didn't and now it's going to be awkward for me when his plans don't live up to my expectations. But I'd choose that anytime over both of us feeling the guaranteed awkwardness while talking.

I hope this helped. In some way.

Love,

Rosy Smith
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....See, I was going through my post drafts just now and everything I've written in the last couple weeks and didn't want to publish right away is semi serious (you know I don't do full on serious by principle) and I'm not in the mood to try and carefully formulate catchy phrases, so here I am, improvising.

This weird inner peace I wanted to tell you about but didn't because I'm so damn peaceful seemed like a good thing to talk about just a second ago. You might have realized by now that I get hysteric when a person I don't even like doesn't text me back within 12 hours. However, when a person I have some sort of dating thing going on with doesn't text me after 24 hours since we last saw each other, I'm like "Well. He wouldn't just suddenly stop liking me. I mean, why would he." It's irritating and unlike me and it's freaking out my friends, but I'm good, I really am.

I'm just applying a peel off mask - I decided that a 2013 expiration date is completely fine to use. It's an emergency, really; I have to leave the house tomorrow and do not feel capable of doing so if this mask doesn't drastically change things, like, right now. I should also redo my nails. It's a shame I'm so awfully tired even though I'm not doing anything particulary exhausting (except for ripping off that mask without ripping off my skin). One of my closest friends is a pre-med. I don't even want to know how she feels because it makes me feel bad (aren't I understanding).

Since I have chosen to prentend to be a fashion victim instead of saving lives, I can brag about going shopping and consider it work experience. At least, that's my definition of things. I got some lovely items I have been longing for, such as a fake leather jacket without a collar ('cause those make me feel icky). Finally I can wear T-shirts and jeans and make it look cool 'cause of my jacket. A red velours dress 'cause I'm a nineties kid who would wear her velours leggins and velvet top and choker together and not give a damn. A little black dress with shoulder cut-outs 'cause there's no such thing as too many black dresses. And a lacey top in that emerald color I like to think makes my eyes look greener. It's scandalous how these things satisfy me, but on the other hand, it's never hard to buy me presents, and that's something to work with, isn't it?

Another note on collars: Please, if you must wear them, don't fold them upwards. I can't be with anyone who does. Just saying.

Love,

Rosy Smith


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.... that I'm gonna have to spend my single evening off school traveling to some hotel I've never been to  and interview two people I've never heard of all by myself. So that's cool.

So I rushed home (I'd been out with my loveliest friend, talking through the events of last night (oh, shush your dirty minds) and changed into a beige pencil skirt and black square shirt, threw some heels and lipstick into my bag and jumped into the waiting car.

Frantically chewing on my gum like a nicotin addict who hasn't had a smoke in a week, (I swear I never had a cigarette in my life) I dug around my things to find a pen and an old fashion show invitation – I just realized I have technical difficulties opening my emails, and even worse, opening the document with my questions. No questions, no interview; no use calling my partner on a ferry, so I told my loveliest friend to get into my account and send me a picture. Bless her. So that's why I'm scribbling them down on this tiny piece of paper hoping I will be able to read them without squinting (don't squint at interviews, it makes people nervous).

My train's delayed, of course, so I miss my bus (big news). There's no cab in sight and I don't have cash on me anyways, so I stumble into the subway – any line, 'cause I got no real clue where I have to be. I get off at a nice-sounding stop and make a run for it, 'cause I'm kinda late (obviously). I confidentally walk down three blocks, stopping only to change out of my Converse (I had been having a classic "business" meets "I have to run so let me wear chucks" vibe going on since leaving home) and into my heels within the safety of a bus stop, like any real lady would. Then I fall back into my confident pace, suddenly realizing how small these shoes actually are. My left foot feels as if I was wearing Chinese foot binders. That's how small.
But my legs look nice, a quick glance into a shop window shows. Wait, is that the right direction? It feels so weird. Like, wasn't that restaurant on the other side of the road on the map? I stop dead in my tracks, convinced that I've been wrong for at least a mile and have to run all the way back and be not only hopelessly late and worse, out of breath. Cue me risking my life to cross the street and ask random strangers for directions.
Turns out, I've been right all along and needlessly lost five minutes of precious slow walking time. However, if I don't get stuck in the sidewalk, I could make it.

Here I am; no one else is yet, though. It seems to be a hobby of mine, to uselessly stand in front of things like I have something to sell.

I just love to get press material. It sounds so important (even though it's just two pieces of paper telling me where I am right now. Which I guess is worth something). Oh, and free drinks are very lovable too. I'll take those. The PR girls look like they're still in school with me. Does that mean I am grown-up or that they are not? 
There's only curry flavored popcorn for food, sadly, but oh well, it is a fashion event after all. At least there are tables and chairs and more popcorn (and, for some incomprehendable reason, nuts) in the goodie bag. Why am I here again? Oh, yeah, that interview. I need to look up the girls I have to talk to or I won't recognize them, I fear. I have an outstanding face memory. Trying to subtly glance around and stare at the other guests to find a match to my google search results. Thank God, they are speakers tonight.

It's not not interesting. A lot of marketing phrases, but at least that way they won't take away my questions for later, which go more like "what's your fave spot in the city" than "define your target group, please". Let's pray my phone lasts long enough to actually record the conversation. Now I'm yawning, which is probably very rude, but I can't help it. That's what terms like "target group" do to me. 

Another journalist is asking mean questions (by mean I mean specific and critical). Let the fun begin. My turn: My teacher spots me hovering around my assigned partners, pretending to have a reason to stand there other than interrupting their conversation. Which I don't. So she kinda pushes me towards them (metaphorically speaking, or I would've tripped over my heels). Just as I want to blurt out my little "Hi, I need to do the interview for the website, please" phrase, some TV guy slides by and commences to chat them up - how rude! I glare at him and one of the girls notices (I'm such a cool, laid back professional) and very kindly ignores him in favor of me. Take that, CNN (kidding. He didn't look important enough for CNN).

"Soooo, I hope this works", I say as I press record. My voice on tape sounds like I'm a kindergardener. But at least one can hear everything, if annoyingly so. I got 12 minutes, then that impertinent TV guy came by and I wrapped it up (that's how they say it. Is that how they say it?). I'd love to have a business card right now. I stick around for another ten minutes, decide I don't have to try and talk to important people (I mean, without a business card, what's the use) 'cause I'm here to do a job, which I finished (I'm sorry but I have to stress this 'cause I like the sound of it), so I click clack my way out and back to the station. My feet hurt like hell at this point but I've learned to accept it. Still, I change back into my Converse on the subway (classy), just in time for a loud crowd of twenty somethings to enter the wagon and sit with me. I've muttered a bad word upon the sight of them, for which I feel bad now because they were truly polite, even if a littly drunk and silly. Do I belong to their group, they ask. I silently shake my head. One of them says something slightly funny so I slily smiled. Do I want to be part of the group now, they ask. No, I said, but granted them an approving expression to show my goodwill. After you, they say as we have to get out. 

And here I am, sitting by the tracks and stuffing my face with a curry dish. Let me just state how much I like the lady who sold me that for a) letting me pay by credit card (remember the lack of cash) and b) reminding me thrice to hold the box steady so it won't flood. I think that shows how much she cares for me. And c), she gave me food. Anyways, satisfied stomach, resting feet, successful interview and a free Harper's Bazaar - I actually had a pretty good night.

Love,

Rosy Smith
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….first of all, what? Not to be a grudging man blamer or anything, but would a girl do something like that? No, because we might be mean but we aren't insanely rude. I have a prof who is quite slimey with us girls, but when he talked about how he started to eat more healthy (eg how he had a salad the other night), we didn't (openly) make fun of him. We told him he looked slimmer already. That's not a lie because he knew very well that it wasn't the truth. But it was the polite thing to do. The motivating thing. Another option is, as it is more often than most people know, to just shut the hell up. Or, to put it more romantically: You say it best / when you say nothing at all.

Still, I really can't get over that. Mostly because I know the assigned girlfriend in the scenery and she is so skinny and pretty that I deem it impossible to find some unnessecary weight on her. And I'm critical. I would probably either break up with that excercise obsessed douche or demonstratingly eat a huge bowl of mac and cheese in front of him while not going to the gym.

Another thing we'll judge today is ditching your blind date. Objectively, that is totally okay. I would do that. But, and here comes the judging, I wouldn't do it by staying up till dawn and then call-canceling the date an hour before we're supposed to meet. Because you overslept. That's not classy. It's not even awesomely cruel. It's just plain impolite. And annoying. So I say, either screw that guy or play it cold. If he calls again to confirm the make-up date, be nice. But not overly nice. Go to that date, but be a little late. If he didn't wait, see the screwing part. If he did, pretend it's the first time you've ever talked to him and see if it works out and everything before was just a big misunderstanding. If he doesn't show up at all, tell me. I'll screw him over for you.

Gosh that sounds so bad again. And like I have a clue what I'm talking about.

Love,

Rosy Smith


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