black women center: Things I Love: May 2011

May, you might not be the biggest Things I Love in the park, but what you lack in size, you make up for in enthusiasm. In May, life threw these at me with the eagerness of a friendly puppy (there seems to be a lot of food in here, but hey, sometimes life throws food at you):

samosas
being done with finals
accidentally getting mango up my nose
the guy who started blowing bubbles before our linguistics final
animating this GIF for Carrie's birthday:

It looks like a five-year-old drew this.

new personal manifestos
feeling like I am in motion again
pants with elasticized waistbands (AWWWW YEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHH)
sweet potatoes eaten with a spoon out of an aluminum foil cradle
waking up too-too early by mistake
Nyan Cat
finishing finals
Nature Valley granola thins

♪ you're just too good to be true / can't take my eyes off of you ♪

delicious brilliant amazing chive potstickers (I LOVE CHIVES)
fluffy baby geese!!!
silence
my little cousin, without whom I would not have ridden in a cart pulled by a miniature horse in the month of May
BLTs
hot almond ginger milk tea
waking up in a bed and not on a couch
Hogfather by Terry Pratchett (and Mr. Teatime, who is a distressingly sexy character to me for some reason, despite the glass eye and psychopathic tendencies)
apple pie
shredding old college material
salmon gyros
stewed beef with turnips
taking screencaps of David Tennant's :C face

This one is by far my favorite. From "Gridlock," Series 3.

"I ain't even bovvered" (thank you Spenser)
that shining moment when you discover that Billie Piper nicknamed her Doctor Who co-star "David Ten-Inch"
Alice
Steven
English muffins and chocolate croissants
Vanessa for the interview/feature!
chicken feet, pork blood, and duck tongue (Sam, your Chinese is showing)
Bella
Spenser
Carrie and Stephanie
my uncle for taking me to the DMV
passing my permit test
not being tempted by anything from Forever21 anymore
Bridesmaids, which is accurate, realistic, totally GPOY, full of hurt and friendship and so very little cheese, and quite funny, and especially for Kristen Wiig and all the fierce lady actors and characters

I laughed so hard at this I started crying in the theater. It is a funny movie, but I really appreciated the painful parts of it.

Sunshine, for sneaking into the latest Pirates of the Caribbean with me for the sole purpose of having a place to sit while eating chicken tenders
bareMinerals because my mom is amazed and delighted at how well-priced, effective, lightweight, and non-irritating their makeup is
tired legs
fishtail braids
that my mom likes "Rolling in the Deep"
cleaning up my blog tags
Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant; Nine, Ten; Billie Piper, Freema Agyemen, Catherine Tate; Rose, Martha, Donna (for a messy but more thorough Doctor Who recap post, see my post on tumblr)

For those of us who now get emotional about a wall: ROOOOOOOOOSE

From "Human Nature/Family of Blood," Series 3, which BREAKS MY HEART.

that the Doctor is a big gray area, and that it is our choices that show who we truly are far more than our abilities, because it means my fandom philosophies mesh!
David Tennant's Scottish accent

Steven Moffatt's storylines (EVERY SINGLE ONE OF HIS EPISODES)
Eleven, Amy, Rory, River Song, the TARDIS; Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Alex Kingston, Suranne Jones

Stand back, kids. This David Tennant situation is about to get OUT OF CONTROL.

SO WHAT IF HE WAS 34 WHEN HE STARTED FILMING DOCTOR WHO, IN WHICH HE PLAYED A 905-YEAR-OLD ALIEN? KINDLY INFORM ME WHO WOULD NOT TAP THAT.

David Tennant has a kitten on his shoulder. Your argument is invalid.

Excuse me, sir, your hair is ridiculous.

♪ I LOVE YOU BABY / AND IF IT'S QUITE ALL RIGHT / I NEED YOU BABY / TO WARM A LONELY NIGHT ♪

The Doctor loves it when you tell him the old girl's bigger on the inside.

GO AWAY, DAVID TENNANT. YOU NEED TO GIVE REALISTIC MEN A CHANCE. In other news, David Tennant is a FOX. He's also adorable, and as with Karen Gillan, adorable + sexy is a dangerous combination.

I don't think it's possible for this man to look unattractive. I think it's mostly the eyes and the FANTASTIC HAIR and the slimness and his nose and that mouth and even those sideburns BABY LET ME LOVE YOU DOWN

David John Smith Collarbone Pajamas Tennant

David About-To-Get-Some Tennant

HHNNNNGGGGGHHHHH

I don't know what's going on with his face, but David Tennant is still attractive.

This is obscene.

I like to think David Tennant is eating a Jammie Dodger in this picture. (...I don't think I'll ever be able to undo the fact that Eleven was my first Doctor. Not that I want to.)