Bright Lights, Big City.

Off tomorrow to NYC for the month of July!

The Famine of Beauty!

I cannot wait to see this!

Like a Cat.

I have decided that my new look for summer is going to be cat eyes. I bought liquid eyeliner today and have begun trying to perfect this look.

Summer Reading.

One of the best parts of summer is endless reading. I am currently rereading old favorites like Lolita and Salinger stories.

My Love/Hate Relationship with Facebook.

I can never decide whether or not to keep my Facebook up. At the core, I detest Facebook. I held out in high school for as long as I could before I inevitably gave in and created a profile for college. I don't like the superficiality of Facebook or how it used as a showcase for people to display these fabricated lives that they create. While I have this blog where I post about things that I find of interest or aesthetically pleasing, I don't use it as a platform to discuss my personal life or daily occurrences (I do occasionally use it to rant like this however). I personally don't want every little detail of my life publicly known. The people who I want to know about what's going on in my life are actively a part of it already. While these are the reasons I constantly delete my Facebook, it can be extremely useful. It's great for keeping in touch with people who I wish were in my life more or for getting back in touch with people who have unfortunately been absent in my life because of distance or just busyness. So after a long hiatus, my Facebook is now back up... but it can only be a matter of time before I panic and take it down again.

The Demel.

One of my favorite places in Vienna was The Demel, an old fashioned cake and chocolate store that has been around since 1786. It is the kind of place that I dream about but never thought actually existed. Like everything else in Vienna, it remains preserved in time, completely untouched by the modern world. The waitresses wear crisp black and white uniforms and the cakes look exactly like they did when were served to Austrian royalty hundreds of years ago. It was delightful to sit at the counter and eat Sachertorte, the famous Viennese chocolate cake with apricot marmalade, and sip delicious hot chocolate. Afterwards we bought these chocolate bars that come wrapped in the most beautiful paper. I just love how the Demel is printed in quirky cursive on the chocolate.

Germany + Austria