I am a huge Gilmore Girls fan, which, by default, makes me an Alexis Bledel fan. (She will forever be Rory Gilmore in my mind.) She has a new movie coming out this summer (8/21/09) called Post Grad. Alexis takes on the role of Ryden Malby, a college graduate who “is forced to move back into her childhood home with her eccentric family, while she attempts to find a job, the right guy, and just a hint of where her life is headed” (IMDB). The trailer makes this movie seem like my kind of movie and I hope it does not disappoint.
I once was obsessed with my hair. Every strand had to be cut to perfection and every strand had to be in perfect place. Then I started college and 8am classes. I chose extra minutes of sleep over style in the mornings. Although my hair was shiny and worthy enough to be in shampoo commercials, it took too much effort to do something other than tie it up into a ponytail. Well, college is over and it is time for a change. I want a haircut that will be a style unto itself (if that makes any sense). I want to be able to wake up in the mornings, brush my hair really quick, and have my haircut be a style. After weeks of trying finding a haircut that will do this for me and months of trying semi-different hairstyles (layers, side-swept bangs, shorter hair), I think I found the haircut. I have to grow my hair a little longer to give it the full effect and before I can cut the layers, but I can start with getting myself some bangs.
The Inspiration
Rory Gilmore/Alexis Bledel Season 7
I love my bangs. I can brush it all in front of my face to give it a chic edge. If I don’t want the full on look, I can brush my bangs like Rory/Alexis where some of my bangs have an off-the-center part. If I feel uncomfortable with bangs, I can still sweep it to the side for side-swept bangs. By far, the best thing I like about my newly cut bangs is that I don’t have to style my hair because it is a style already!
I had my Rory Gilmore moment. Sort of. It happened when I found myself in New Haven at Yale. Yes. Yale. The school Rory chose to attend for college. The school where she studied for 4 seasons (minus her leave of absence). The school that was the setting for the Life and Death Brigade (inspiration for A and my Delta Alpha Omega’s In Omnia Paratus), the Harvard-Yale game tailgate party episode, the Yale Daily News, etc. This school is filled with so much history, prestige, and Gilmore-related memories. I may not have been on the undergrad part of campus, but I was on some part of the Yale campus. As I walked through the halls where famous footsteps (I assume) had preceded my own, I felt the connection to something historical, something important, something Gilmore. Or it could have been all in my head. Either way, I felt, for a minute or two, like Rory. If only I could find Stars Hollow would it have been complete. Well, at least I got to fly out of Hartford.
On an unrelated note, A pointed out that while in Connecticut we forgot to look for Stonybrook (setting for the Baby-Sitters Club).
Look out world!
Twenty-something trying to make her mark on the world (for the better). Along the way, things are seen, things are heard, things are thought about…and then things are written about.
