January 2012
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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...
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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...”
– Milan Kundera (via musingsinfemininity)
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“‘Don’t you ever mind,’ she asked suddenly, ‘not being rich enough to buy all the...”
– The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
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“I’m looking for a book… something that can help me deal with what might be an...”
– Marie - Dan in Real Life (via musingsinfemininity)
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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...
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“Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the...”
– Alan Keightley (via musingsinfemininity)
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“it’s always easier to text me or email
I don’t do in-person things too...”
– Adorkable: Terribly Overgrown
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Revisiting my Senior Year Wishlist
As the second semester gets started, I thought I’d revisit this to cross off the things I did first semester and make additions for the harsh winter months & spring.
Cupcake Date with Brittney
Ye Old Mill (Utica, Oh)
drive-in movies
Stargazing on South Quad (“stay up all night with the stars”)
Dress up & eat out once a month with Vivian
4th Street, Cleveland
Sleep in the...
“People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed,...”
– Audrey Hepburn (via alisonwynn)
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“It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache...”
– Oriah Mountain Dreamer, L’Invitation
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January 6-12
Frolicking around town in my nude patent pumps in the 50-degree January sun: coffee date with Bri at My Daily Grind; Thrifting at Plato’s; Clearance rack at Forever 21
Drove sister to airport
Culinary Adventures: Sweet potato fries; Chickpeas and Italian Sausage in red wine sauce
Homemade pizza at Molly’s & decorative wine bottle from Anne :)
Coming back to Kenyon
Getting...
7 QUESTIONS TO ASK when you’re not sure who... →
“Perhaps not the meaning of time,
but the time of meaning, & the fact that...”
– Seth Abramson, from “What I Have” (via the-final-sentence)
“Don’t expect to get anything back, don’t expect recognition for your efforts,...”
– Paulo Coelho (via stellablu)
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“Winter is for women—
The woman, still at her knitting,
At the cradle of...”
– Sylvia Plath, from “Wintering” (via awritersruminations)
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“It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be...”
– The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
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December 30-January 5
Ringing in the new year at the Filipino Party, Don Pablo’s, & Molly’s house in my gold sequin dress & spirit hood & with this Cranberry Sangria.
Thesis: wrote 3 new pages; edited heavily
Read: Canterbury Tales: Prologue & Knight’s Tale; Half of The House of Mirth.
Hung out with Amanda for the premiere of The Biggest Loser
Family stresses.
Dinner at Bunker...
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“Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint.”
– Fanny Price, Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (via quote-book)
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“I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe...”
– Audrey Hepburn (via girlwithoutwings)
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2012 Musings
On New Year’s Eve, my friend Molly told me that she has started referring to working out as “writing a love letter to yourself” because “that’s what you’re doing; telling your body that you love it.” I like that.
At 4 o’clock this afternoon I picked up my sister who was coming home from a weekend trip to OSU with friends and she asked me why I...
“Have I ever told you about the first time I saw you? Everything was young back...”
– Greg Forrester, “Star-cross’d”
(via quote-book)
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New Year's Cleaning Spree
In anticipation of a new semester in my residence hall, I started cutting beachy photos from my Coastal Living magazines to use for my hall theme (to give us sunny images to get us through mid-Ohio winter). I was inspired by this to go through every magazine stacked on the bottom of my bookshelf and tear out articles I might read, recipes I might cook, and pictures that I enjoyed—and...
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December 2011
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New Years' Resolution: Explore the Philippines →
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wanderingbarefoot:
A few days to go and its almost 2012, new year and another 365 days of endless opportunities to travel and learn about the Philippines. That’s right, I’m specifically talking about traveling in our OWN country, discovering how magnificent and enchanting the Philippines is.
Before, traveling used to be for those who have the luxury of time and money but...
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2011 in Review
Best Reads:
Paradise Lost, John Milton
Lit, Mary Karr
Carrie, Stephen King
The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
American Wasteland, Jonathan Bloom
Good Films:
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Black Swan
American Violet
My Name is Kahn
Windfall
Plastic Nation
Concerts:
Ke$ha
NKOTBSB
Travels:
Spring Break in Canada: Toronto, Niagara Falls, Windsor
Ann Arbor 2x
Columbus many times:...
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December 23-29
Last minute Christmas shopping/stress/buying more things for myself than for the people on my gift list.
Tried Leinenkugel’s Fireside Nut Brown Beer; Blue Moon’s Winter Abbey remains the winter seasonal brews champion for me, but this might take second place.
Culinary Adventures: Sweet Potato & Califlower Soup, Saag
Filipino Christmas Party
Gifts with Mom and Sister = 1...
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imperilled asked: HE GAVE ME AN A TOO. I just about died of happiness.
“Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page...”
– Cornelia Funke (via ihrtbks)
“When we’re done with it, we may find—if it’s a good novel—that we’re a bit...”
– ― Ursula K. Le Guin (via oh-sayitaintso)
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Must Make: Winter Zucchini Bread Pancakes →
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“Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing...”
– Virgil Garnett Thomson (via quote-book)
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A Christmas Story, 1941 →
There was tension in the house. Guests were on the way for the holiday — but the husband hadn’t told his wife who they were. So in the days just before Christmas 70 years ago, the two had a quarrel.
This wasn’t your average household tiff. The year was 1941, the quarrel occurred in the White House, the combatants were Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, and the guests were British Prime Minister...
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A Grinchy Proposal
Sister and I set out this afternoon on a mission to buy gifts for grandma, cousin, and father at the most unpleasant place in the world, the mall.
Mission #1: Grandma’s Gift Card for Aladdin’s Eatery: we committed a huge fail, buying one $30 gift card and one $20 gift card. We thought we’d get a $10 bonus card, but the rule was buy ONE $50 card, get the $10 card. So now we have...
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Sweet Potato & Califlower Soup
First, confession: after three days of successfully eating a vegetarian diet, I fell off the wagon at the holiday party on Thursday. Mrs. T makes this wonderful Buffalo dip that contains chicken and I fall for it every time. As of Friday I am back on the wagon, but I predict I’ll probably buckle again during the Filipino Christmas party tomorrow. This is difficult.
Second, I made a version...