Couture.
I like to fancy myself a future connoisseur of everything. It started off with video games, the desire to know all the secret hallways and scoring that special power up that made your friends go "Neat!" it changed to computers, where I ended up fixing people's PCs, and giving my friends neat shortcuts and applications to make themselves more (or less, as is frequently the case) productive. Coffee is where I really went nuts (beans?) - Starbucks has a "Coffee Passport" program, where they expect you to have a knowledge of all the types of coffee they sell, their characteristics, such as aroma, body, origin, flavor etc. My teacher, Lee, setup blind coffee tastings, testing my knowledge of one coffee to the next, until I could pick the type of coffee blindfolded. The greatest thing was working with all of the crap that Starbucks has - There are only two or three decent bags, Ethiopia Sidamo, Arabian Mocha Java, and Sumatra. That's my taste, of course.
Then, it was Womens Shoes, working at Nordstrom. Thankfully it was only selling, not buying shoes that I was interested in, but that knowledge split into clothes, where I'm now a fiend for high price underground designer jeans, such as Chip & Pepper.
This is all saying nothing of my extreme and severe obsession with music either. I don't know if you could call my tastes "Underground" (I think that word is overused nowadays - does it mean covert, or unpopular?) with artists like Luke Vibert, Emperor Penguin, & New Young Pony Club. It's gotten to a state where if I meet someone who knows ANY of those bands, then they're instantly going in my phone book.
Now I'm beginning to get into Party Hosting, Cooking, and Economics, I can't wait to see what's next.
Then, it was Womens Shoes, working at Nordstrom. Thankfully it was only selling, not buying shoes that I was interested in, but that knowledge split into clothes, where I'm now a fiend for high price underground designer jeans, such as Chip & Pepper.
This is all saying nothing of my extreme and severe obsession with music either. I don't know if you could call my tastes "Underground" (I think that word is overused nowadays - does it mean covert, or unpopular?) with artists like Luke Vibert, Emperor Penguin, & New Young Pony Club. It's gotten to a state where if I meet someone who knows ANY of those bands, then they're instantly going in my phone book.
Now I'm beginning to get into Party Hosting, Cooking, and Economics, I can't wait to see what's next.