I thought I would reward myself for a weekend of hard work. I intended to buy new music on Amazon, for which I have a $5 credit thanks to spending $200 on books this semester; but then got to looking up The Oxford Companion to Wine which the anth. professor who taught our wine-tasting lessons last weekend says is the only wine book worth owning. I got the expensive volume in it’s second edition, rather than the current third edition, used for $5.98 & free shipping. This book is going to be a great addition in my future apartment.
Filipino photographer George Tapan won National Geographic’s Photo Contest (Places category) last year with an image of a rainbow stretching across the clear blue waters off the shore of Onuk Island, south of Palawan.
Having a Pride & Prejudice moment right now.
(Source: alwayslookagain)
I woke up feeling kind of blah…so i drove to the dollar store & spent $10.21 on three bunches of plastic flowers, two red plastic champagne flutes with hearts on them, and six valentine’s day cards.
Now I study.
January 20-26
- snowy, sleety Friday night in sweats
- Board game night & peppermint schnapps hot chocolate, mmmm
- Movie recommendation: Gaslight (1944)
- Study buddies
- (literally) Coffee Cupcakes
- Chinese New Year!
- REACH dinner, 4-year planning
- A-dor-able Thank You card from Will Scott + Middle Ground gift certificate
- Surprise: seminar’s cancelled
- Manicure & Pedicure in the absence of aforementioned seminar.
Weekend Wishlist:
- Networking & Wine Tasting
- Sips studying
- Ambition: All for Love, MacBeth, & Doctor Faustus by Monday….
- Start writing Chapter 3
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We say that we cannot bear our troubles but when we get to them we bear them.
Daughter of Han: The Autobiography of A Chinese Working Woman, Ida Pruitt
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She loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others.
Milan Kundera (via musingsinfemininity)
(Source: silverslipper, via musingsinfemininity)
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‘Don’t you ever mind,’ she asked suddenly, ‘not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?’
The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
in process of collecting the letters for this…
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I’m looking for a book… something that can help me deal with what might be an awkward situation. Something funny might be nice, but not necessarily big, ‘ha, ha, ha,’ ‘laugh, laugh, laugh’ funny, and certainly not make-fun-of-other-people funny but rather something human-funny. And, uh, if it could uh, sneak up on you, surprise you, and at the same time make you think that what you thought wasn’t only right, in a wrong kind of way, but when you’re wrong, there’s a certain rightness in your wrongness… Well, what I mean is, more importantly, I’m looking to be swept up! And at the same time, not.
Marie - Dan in Real Life (via musingsinfemininity)
January 13-19
- Finished Caterbury Tales, Rebecca, Love Medicine
- Post-break catching up: NY Shotglass from Vivian
- First week of classes: good ones.
- Cupcake-2-Go from Rachel
- Lunch at The Kenyon Inn
- Clothing drive volunteering
- $100 Book buying scholarship - yay
- Horribly unseasonable warmth and atrocious wind
- Snowstorm
- breakfast sammiches with CAs
Weekend Wishlist:
- dress for success
- shotglasses
- coffee cupcakes
- Foucault
- Autobiographies of Filipinos
