Ever since I came to own my first tube of clear Maybelline Great Lash eight years ago, makeup has been a part of my life. In grade school, I wasn’t allowed to wear it at all. Experimentation with my giant Markwins eyeshadow and lipstick palette — on sale at Robinsons-May, much to my middle school […]
Missing Migrants: Data Visualization Assignment

For my Diplomacy Lab course at OU, I created a map of missing migrants based on a data set given to us by our professors. I used Google Fusion Tables to create my map: Tips for using the map: Each point represents an incident where migrants were reported missing and/or found alive or deceased. Click […]
Totally Pointless Rant #1: (Who the H*ck Does) Eye Makeup Before Face Makeup

Alright, children. Gather ’round. I’m here to take you with me on my first foray into beauty blogging. True to brand, I figured I would start with something I know I’m good at: a rant. The proposed format: when I feel very strongly about something that doesn’t really matter, I’ll write about it for five minutes. No holds barred. […]
The Beginning of an Affair

I don’t like cooking, and I’m not good at it. I say this a lot. I can handle baking. I did it a lot in Uruguay, actually, when I was bored or just wanted to experiment with our set-it-on-fire-yourself gas oven. But when I’m on my own in Norman, I do a very good job of […]
What am I doing here?

Tomorrow marks the end of my second full week interning at the League of Women Voters of the United States. LWV was the first internship opportunity I came across when I found out I had been selected for the Ewing, and it ended up being the first offer I received. I felt comfortable accepting almost […]
hace un año

I started off the morning with the intention of writing something completely different for a completely different blog. I can’t stop seeing or thinking about Montevideo, though, so we’re going to talk about that. When I started study abroad blogging, I did it partly for myself, and partly so my family could keep tabs on […]
I Think I’ll Go to Boston

Oh, wow. How committed I’ve been with this whole blogging thing, right? I don’t really feel as bad about it anymore though. It’s my blog, my space, my rules, etc. And I haven’t been entirely absent — the spring semester is in full swing, and I opened it with a column on The Daily‘s site […]
What’s the word, 2017?

2016, as Kylie Jenner so graciously informed us, was the year of “realizing.” So what will 2017 be about? As I celebrated the new year with some dear old friends last night, we couldn’t help but contemplate the magnitude of this paradigm-altering question.
Hey there!

Well, this is it. The blog I’ve had stashed away for almost two years, a subdomain relegated to theme experimentation, logo auditions, and HTML mishaps. It’s been a long time coming. Welcome.