She was elusive.
She was today. She was tomorrow.
She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower,
the flitting shadow of an elf owl.

We did not know what to make of her.
In our minds we tried to pin her to corkboard like a butterfly,
but the pin merely went through
and away she flew.
- Jerry Spinelli

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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
-Earl Warren

Do scroll down, I decided to publish a draft entry dated 062708.
Hi. My name is Pauline Sugiharto, and I'm a raging Shopaholic on the lose.

I might be spending too much, considering that I'm living off of my parents still with no job nor income to speak of. (ah... uh... *avoids subject and moves on*) I'm a very picky shopper; I do pay attention to the tiniest stitches, and I have quite an eye for spotting cheap looking materials. Most of the time I refuse to pay full price for an item, lest it's really, really, really, really really, really... REALLY pretty. In such cases, little would matter, even if their store is UK based and charge you in £ with a whopping side of ripoff from the currency exchange, like this:


(watch it on the catwalk! you have to!)

Which, incidentally would oh so fabulously go with:


(click to enlarge!)


Alas, even this universe of online ogling, punching in your credit card number that you memorized years before you're even remotely familiar with the last 4 digits of your social security number, and a UPS man knocking at your door as if your 12 days of Christmas lasts year long... is a stone throw short of utopia. Alas indeed, if you're a size XXS / 00 / 23 (US jeans) / 4 or 6 (UK) / 5.5 (US shoes) that really makes you wonder if you should write to Miriam Webster for a subdefinition for the word petite that would act like the extra X in XXS.

Nothing fits.

The glamorous frill sleve stripe bib dress (as asos calls it) was not even manufactured in any size smaller than 8, AND the Betsey Johnson bracelet is sold out... right after Nordstrom had their additional 50% off that would otherwise cut it down to a sweet $17ish.

AAAAAAAH! The agony!
All is well. All is well.

Phoebe Pauline Valentine Kribben Sugiharto 朱宝玲, B.S.
110888
Eldest of 3
UCSD Psychology, class of 2008
University of Cambridge, King's College, summer of 2007
TKSS, class of 2004
ICHS, class of 2006, left on 2001
San Diego, California

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