black women center: Things I Love: January 2010

[EDIT: Post attempt #2. With any luck, the font sizing and links won't have any problems.]

This is a little late.

Dear 2010, you're kinda cute. Let me count the ways!

frozen spoons
Closet Confidential, a real-life book by Winona from DaddyLikey that I am totally willing to pimp. It should be required reading for women everywhere. Especially the part about having a handbag ready for an emergency.
my new lace-up boots
S c h e m e
Crepevine
my mother
17 Again and Zac Efron

No, srs, guys, where is my mature, loving, family-oriented 37-year-old-man in the body of a 22-year-old Adonis? [via]

OHAI. [via]

babies
when you go on comegetused just hoping to make a few bucks on your old textbooks and it turns out your buyer is kinda cute
Ling-Ling
that my generation of celebrities is accessible on twitter and tumblr (Dianna Agron's tumblr and Cory Monteith's twitter!)
Tony
Special K and Gordon:

fitting into my Prada skirt that I barely fit into last year
my aunt for thinking of me before giving away her old clothes
lining my skirts because I can expend more mental energy on not tripping and less on whether my skirt's gotten stuck between my legs yet
Avatar
the Cartier exhibit at the Legion of Honor, where I learned what a bandeau is

cleaning out my makeup bag
playing with Carissa in our blanket fort in the living room
coral-pink Neutrogena lipstick
blog comments
YOU GUYS! Seriously. All 2.5 (aka ~90) of you. Your comments are JOY. Except you, Chinese Spambot. Your comments are not joy. Maybe I should just leave them there instead of deleting them from now on.
Connie
my apartment because oh there is nothing like having a quiet, empty building to yourself after a month at home in a house with heavy familial traffic
that I have gone back to normal shampoo + conditioner having tried 'poo alternatives for 8 (?) months
Daniel because finally there is someone equally enthused about course material! Anyone who has "faɪnəli ɡɔt̚ aɪ pi eɪ ɑn hɪz mæk!!!" as a Facebook status has to be awesome.
Jessie
falling asleep in CS3L lecture and waking up to Professor Harvey asking for a 2-word Beatles song, calling out "Hey Jude" from the back row, which he used, and then falling asleep again
Ching
my Skullcandy headphones
Dr. Bronner's lip balm on sale at Target
Saturday night family dinners
feeling sleepy at 11 PM
nurseries and the smell of wet earth and miniature daffodils

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short skirts
Marc!
"Fix You" and this cover because I totally do have a crush on the lead singer
my Hunter rain boots
Stephanie my lab partner! Here's to 3-hour 8 AM labs!
Carmen & Liz
SET!

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Mihran and Kathleen
Soda because it is a really nice building and there is never a line for the women's bathroom
apartment meetings where we go over our rent and utilities and animal menstruation
every single time that I reaffirm that I really, really like linguistics
Sunshine
planting my snow and sweet peas and the subsequent dirt under my fingernails
my tiny 9-person linguistics discussion with the Uma Thurman GSI
my mother's old trench coat and the love and labor that went into taking up the hem and letting out the sleeves by hand
fucking my fear because it is good for me
breaking my shopping ban
getting into my waitlisted classes (12th for a 50-person class and 23rd for a 150-person class)
This extremely useful diagram provided by the management:

LOOKERS! The first edition of 2010 and the first edition ever with LADEEZ. 'Cause I have the biggest crush on Dianna Agron. But first, the ... less fair sex:

Above, I have no idea who this is. But he is obvz my soulmate because I make that face too. And I have a trench coat. We were made for each other. [via]