You don' KNOWWW me.

By the way. My name is Kelly Doyle-Mace. I am a 22-year-old female, which is probably the most depressing age I've been so far (not in terms of how i feel at this age, just in terms of the age itself). I am a student at the University of Georgia currently taking a semester break from classes due to financial/existential crisis. I live in Athens, Georgia, USA, and sometimes I live in Cumming, Georgia, USA, but once I lived in Paris, Île-de-France, France, and i wish I still lived in Paris, Île-de-France, France, and I'm not sure if i'll figure out my purpose in this world until I am yet again in Paris, Île-de-France, France (just so you know, if you ever write a letter to Paris, Île-de-France, France, you don't actually have to include the province (state) name, Île-de-France; I just like to show off when it comes to my knowledge of the land of the frogs). This is my new blog, and at this point I'm not sure exactly what I'd like it to be, besides awesome. Which is the exact same way I feel about myself. Cross your fingers for my great success. And read often!

Some things that make me no-fail, consistently, inordinately happy:

Paris - Dogs and cats, and 99.9% of other animals, including and especially dinosaurs - Orbit Gum - Anthony Bourdain and Samantha Brown, and their respective television shows (really the only great shows on what should be a great channel, Travel Channel) - Love - Arbor Mist - Foreign Language of any kind, but especially French - Wireless Internet access - Gustav Klimt, Pierre Bonnard, John Singer Sargent - Bodies of water -The Apple enterprise - Wilco - Stuff that happens on a stage - Coming up with hypothetical bands/albums/songs - style.com - Fellini and Woody Allen films - Xzibit - Dancing, Driving, or Singing to extremely loud music - Ice Cream, and moreso, Italian Gelato - Marc Jacobs - Traveling - Magazines, the wittier the better - Making lists of any kind, as I'm sure you've already gathered

Things that make me inordinately, or at least somewhat unhappy:

Being from Florida (am I a southerner? am I a misplaced northerner? the jury's out.) - Ugg boots and fleece North Face jackets when worn out of context, Vera Bradley bags or anything embroidered with initials when worn ever (read: the University of Georgia sorority getup) - War - Salvador Dalí - Post-grunge music, which unfortunately takes up a vast majority of gigabytage on my sister's iPod Mini - Britney Spears' fall from grace (um you're gonna want to click on that one) - Mosquitos (though they sure do LOVE me) - Lazy Poseurs who put "anything" on their online profiles under "music interests" - Poseur hipsters who think that the rad thing to do is be standoffish and have the posture of a decrepit wizard and the lame thing to do is be friendly and enthusiastic and remember people's names - Cigarette breath or other essence of cigarette (but not necessarily cigarette smokers; most of my friends are euro-poseurs, after all) - Tori Spelling's omnipotence in otherwise good celebrity trash magazines - High Fructose Corn Syrup

Like I said, making lists makes me inordinately happy, and these lists could go on, and on, and on. But perhaps it would be better for you to pick up on what I like and what I don't like while reading my posts. The best things in life are slowly unfolded. Anyone who has ever lived in Paris, Île-de-France, France, would agree with me, oui?

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What I'd like to do for lunch today: Around 1:30, stuff a pocket pita with baba gannouj, smoked turkey, and romaine lettuce.
What I'll actually do for lunch today: Grab a handful of snapea crisps, a handful of grapes, and a bite of the chocolate cloud cake I made last night for the girls. It will be around 5 pm, I will ruin my appetite, and dinner (caramel rice cake with peanut butter sandwich, a yogurt, more cake?) will be around 11pm. I will be watching whatever is on Travel Channel at the time, and it will probably be a world poker tournament, and I will be mad.