Fittingly.net

My name is Millie — I’m from the Silicon Valley (San Jose, CA) but spend the majority of my time in Los Angeles and have spent my last two summers studying in Paris. I am studying Global Studies & Geography at UCLA, though I’m only a student technically; as Mark Twain said, classes get in the way of my education. Currently, I’m seeking a career that will allow me to fuse my repertoire of interests in a creative way, perhaps in urban planning.

Here, you will find a bevy of topics that the generalist in me revels in: I write about what I enjoy — traveling, technology (gadgets, the Internet, social implications of), current events & academia (globalization, geography), running/hiking/biking & yoga (ashtanga), culture (literature, music [jazz, soul & so much more]), design [typography, interior]), writing & reporting (magazines, newspapers), and gastronomy (coffee & tea, cooking & restaurants) — but mostly just nonsensical ideas. Oh, and sometimes about my life.

I’m struggling to find my niche, but perhaps I will take after da Vinci and be a modern day Renaissance Woman despite the economic consensus to specialize. I risk trying to appeal to everyone or no one, and I’m okay with that. Either way, join me in my struggle and please be humored on the way because life is a comedy for those who think, a tragedy for those who feel* and I’m a tragic thinker.

Contradictions and absurdities ensue. E-mail me at millie (at) fittingly (dot) net.

My Proust Questionnaire.

What is your current state of mind? Restless, but overstimulated. Feeling like a tortured creative soul.

Favorite spot in the world: Playground around the corner from L’As du Falafel in the Marais in Paris

Ambitions: To keep writing, learn the guitar & travel to meet people and listen to their stories

You can never have too many: Books, shoes and gigabytes.

What is your greatest extravagance? Not practicing constraint.

What is the quality you most like in a man? Curiosity, humor & looks good in a suit.

What is the quality you most like in a woman? Driven and understanding.

If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? I wish I could read faster.

What is your most treasured possession? My mind.

What is your most marked characteristic? I’d say both friendly and farouche, depends.

What do you most value in your friends? Ability to bring out the best in me.

What is it that you most dislike? Disregard (for others, ideas, knowledge, reason, etc.)

What is your greatest fear? Not contributing to the world; not being a good mother.

One day I hope to: Practice patience and focus, live in another country.

Quotable:

It seems that if you trust your gut without ever feeding your gut any facts or news or contrary opinions, if you keep your gut on a steady diet of grandiosity, ignorance, sycophants, and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, those snap decisions can be ruinous. —Maureen Dowd

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose. —Charles Baudelaire

Traveling through the world produces a marvelous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose. This great world is a mirror where we must see ourselves in order to know ourselves. —Michel de Montaigne