As I sit here, desperately reloading Mercedez Benz Fashion Week’s website AND simultaneously work on my latest PHP project a thought struck me. I want hot pockets. Wait! I promise this will segway into a beauty related post – just give me a second.

School got back into session recently and one thing i’ve noticed? People are a LOT nicer to me. And trust me – my smiles haven’t gotten any more Julia Robertsy and I certainly haven’t been floating around trying to make new friends. Right now i’m mourning the loss of my laptop and jonesing for it to get repaired quickly so that I can stop using my boyfriend’s (on loan) and get back my Macro-Enabled keypad. So why the smiles?

You can figure it out by looking at the progression of this blog. My adventures into beauty began a half-year ago – just in time for one semester to end and another to begin. In that time I’ve come to know acronyms that have nothing to do with my MMORPG (Perfect World, by the way – it’s the free WoW with 100% more historical asian references), my online warez community or my various other nerdy endeavors. I try not to talk about what a big dork I am because I don’t want to use it as a gimmick for this blog – but I know I am. When I roll my eyes in an exasperated manner when my sister can’t figure out that a Venutian is CLEARLY (so obviously) a person from Venus, that the Three Laws of Robotics were written by Asimov and my voice gains that valley girl-disdain affect at anyone who doesn’t understand the concept of open source and why it is so clearly the route to evolutionary salvation? What else could I be?