Hi guys. I registered to run in the NYC Race for the Cure on September 13, in Central Park. My grandmother and aunt both had (and thankfully were able to beat) breast cancer, so I have some personal ties to this important cause.
To support me in the race by donating to Susan G. Komen For the Cure, go here: http://www.komennyc.org/goto/nikki_p . Thank you!
Lots of things have been happening lately, and I haven’t really posted about any of them. I have a new nephew (Ian Daniel), Michael Jackson has left a weirdly shaped void in all our hearts, and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is getting less and less kindness from me the more I discuss it. I’ve torn through a bunch of books lately, the most notable of them being The Road my Cormac McCarthy. If it’s on your list, and it should be, read it before even watching the trailer for the upcoming film.
My summer has, unfortunately, not included big travel plans, but next weekend I will be traveling to Connecticut with one of my most favorite people ever to attend a wedding. It’s going to be so much fun!
And there you have an update. I’ll try to post more, and start carrying my camera with me again.
Oops!
Worth it for: how many hipsters does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
Katie Nemmer made this. Fun times on the T.
Look what Sephora did to me. All I asked for was foundation. Just kidding, it’s amazing what that chick did. I have eyebrows, and lips, and freaking eyes, and wow. I so don’t have the time to do this every day. I didn’t buy a thing, she gave me a ton of free samples. Ladies, it’s a good deal.
Did you know that after Lincoln had succumbed to the wound inflicted by Booth, doctors took out his entire brain (or what was left) because they couldn’t find the bullet? There’s your “fun” fact of the day. I learned this reading Sarah Vowell’s Assassination Vacation. Well, an excerpt from a diary cited in the book, anyway.
Reading it has made me look at Lincoln as more of a man than a legend. Not that the meaning or epic-ness of what he did has lessened at all, but it just got me really exploring the idea that he was a living, breathing person, with eccentricities and a sense of humor — not just a thoughtful, seated statue overlooking the Mall in Washington. I mean, we all know that but don’t often pause to think about it. That being said, I don’t think the above image is disrespectful cause… well, I’d really like it if someone drew me with a machine gun arm.
I kind of skipped a Happy Valentine’s Day post, but I was out pretty much the entire day. It was happy. I wanted to say though, that regardless of my relationship status on 2/14 every year (yes, even that one year), I still like Valentine’s Day, or at least the idea of Valentine’s Day. I know a lot of people hate on it, and sure, you can make into a Hallmark holiday if you want to, but in our increasingly busy day to day lives, making sure to set aside time to spend with a significant other should seem like a priority, at least on this one special day. Like anything else, you just have to remember to keep it real.
The video’s not bad either.
I want to go! Also I’m seeing Beirut on Friday and I’ve contained my excitement… but just barely. 
I wanted to post this picture because I love it, and a link to this gallery I saw on Digg today (where the pic came from). Maybe it’s because I showed my brother The Empire Strikes Back for the first time over Christmas, or because all my friends are nerds, but I feel like Star Wars has come up a lot in conversation this winter season. Now I know I (nor you, most likely) wasn’t around to see the releases of the good Star Wars movies; I just thought some of this gallery was adorable.
I’ve been extended a great honor, friends. I’ve been invited to do reviews on jayandwayne.com, and I posted my first one today. Hooray for marginal internet fame.
