The skinny on Grace.

If you were to ask one of her friends they'd say "Grace... well, where do I even start with Grace?" Grace is the kind of girl who started doing yoga in college because she thought frat guys thought she was kind of Asian looking, and she wanted to play into the mystique. In fact, however, Grace actually knows very little about her east Asian heritage, as is demonstrated by her embracing yoga -- a practice whose roots aren't east Asian at all.

Grace, well, she's made some mistakes in her life -- but who hasn't? She's still young, but has already been married and divorced. She doesn't really like to talk about it -- not because she's embarrassed or because it was particularly painful, though. Instead, Grace won't talk about her brief marriage and divorce because she doesn't really feel anything about it at all, and typically that makes the conversation awkward around her friends.

Though, when drunk enough, she will refer to her ex-husband, Blake, as "the worst lay I've ever had." And coming from Grace, you know, that means a lot.

Grace can pack away a few appletinis before she gets a buzz, though, and normally plays her cards pretty close to her chest.

Grace works in advertising, and she's good at her job. In fact, she was part of the team that designed FedEx's latest print ad campaign for the Southwest region. The campaign won a few trade association awards for its innovative use of the slogan: "FedEx -- we deliver packages." Later, Grace would admit this was among the worst slogans she'd ever come up with but, really, they thought consumers had forgotten what FedEx did.

Since the advertising community only rarely rewards creativity, nobody actually noticed the blandness of the slogan. Instead, it was mistaken for genius. But this isn't the place for social commentary, this space is reserved for Grace.

Every Thursday night, Grace meets up with some of her girls at a weekly stitch-and-bitch. Yes, this is something that actually happens. She has been working on the same scarf for the past six weeks and, while scarves aren't particularly tough to knit and the other women have moved on to larger projects, she's not particularly attached to the knitting itself. Instead, she goes because she feels like she's supposed to hang out with other young Women and couldn't figure out how to find them. Usually she refers to it as "the one night a week I don't get hit on by some sweaty old man who's had one too many beers."

Grace never talks to her ex husband anymore and hasn't really looked back. Right now she's dating a guy, Ethan, who is an attorney. Ethan... doesn't really like Grace but she seems to understand that he's really busy and doesn't often have time for her, and he likes that. Grace isn't all that into Ethan, either, because she doesn't get too attached to the myriad men who go through the revolving door of her life. But, he does buy her dinner and gifts and the like, and, well, she does like that. After all, who doesn't like a good time?

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