- trying the small shower down the hall because it is very clean and has excellent pressure
- hot showers when I am cold
- talking with my mom about my birth (such a strange topic! But I feel like we bonded so much!)
- the Gibson tuck via All This Happiness
- Spenser texts, Bella texts
- Commentarius, the novel-length Lily/James fanfiction I have been reading on my phone over lunch, for its James Potter because he would purposely get detention so he could spend more time with Lily
- condom comebacks from my Female Sexuality class
Not that I've had reason to use any of these yet.
"COME HERE. I'LL CHANGE YOUR MOOD."
Sorry, I know I'm totally making fun of this, but I do wish that requesting condom use was a non-issue. It's just that these make me giggle like a Catholic schoolkid in 7th grade sex ed.
"I'VE GOT MOVES RUBBERS CAN'T STOP."
- finally unlocking the whale and elephant (yay mammals!) on Alchemy
- pumpkin gelato
- English muffins with butter, lamb chops with garlic, sugar cookies, prunes (I am actually 95 years old), bok choy, and really good snickerdoodles
- the cemetery
- watching women’s gymnastics on TV
- my brother, who OMG flew a plane
- not sleeping through my midterm as I had dreamed
- Doctor Who, especially for Karen Gillan and Alex Kingston in the Series 6 season finale because UNF
Karen Gillan looked amazing in this episode, and so did Alex Kingston. I think it's because they darkened all the women's makeup.
Yeah, that's right, look at that fabulous hair.
Amy Pond is holding a gun. Also Amy Pond's hair. Nothing else is relevant.
Reeeallllly fabulous hair. Also, a little bit obsessed with her lip color.
OH MY GOD HER HAIR IN THIS SCREENCAP. I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH MYSELF I AM FLAILING SO MUCH.
My apologies to Matt Smith for playing favorites, but his mullet for the majority of the season finale was just so directly in opposition to my preference for short-in-the-back, long-in-the-front hair.
My apologies to Matt Smith for playing favorites, but his mullet for the majority of the season finale was just so directly in opposition to my preference for short-in-the-back, long-in-the-front hair.
- Archer for Sterling Archer (personal hero) and Archer/Lana (OTP)
- being inside when it is raining
- chocolate-dipped biscotti with warm milk (hhnnggghhhh)
- that my hair is long enough to twist up
- tai chi to the Tree of Life soundtrack ("Funeral March" makes me feel super grounded, just saying)
- the first stretch of the morning
- my first experience with Russian food at Katia's, especially for the beet borsch, shashlik (a lamb dish), and potato cutlets (and their really, really pretty butter with dill pressed into it)
- Inglourious Basterds
Honestly? I'm probably never going to be a Tarantino fan because I can't stand the violence (I started watching Reservoir Dogs and stopped about 10 minutes into it because I was so grossed out (and I found the dialogue boring; I found the opening dialogue of Pulp Fiction so boring I stopped after about 5 minutes; SORRY!)), but the part in Inglourious Basterds where Shosanna's getting dressed is just so good. It was a very nice-looking movie, and watching it stressed me out the way I think it was supposed to. But man, did I have to put my bowl of rice down to get through it. (Unrelated: Michael Fassbender's teeth were especially shark-like in this movie.)
- these FutureMe emails I decided to send myself (from this time last year, and this time four years ago)
- my female sexuality class and the unintentional comment “Oh, 'you look fertile,' like you want to plow her? (crop plowing motion) …Oh my God”
- MY PERIOD, WHICH FINALLY CAME!
- a termite-hunting fest at midnight, because while it meant that our house is indeed infested with termites, I think my brother would have found it really fun to join our stakeout with the vacuum cleaner
- really delicious ginger chews
- How to Train Your Dragon SO HARD
I can't believe it took me this long to watch this! I love stories about problematic parent-child relationships, and this kind of just immediately shot right up to the top of my favorites list next to Tangled.
Also when Astrid was introduced I laughed so much it was disgraceful.
Also Jesus Christ, Blogger, you need to get your newline formatting together because this is untoward.
Also when Astrid was introduced I laughed so much it was disgraceful.
Also Jesus Christ, Blogger, you need to get your newline formatting together because this is untoward.
- GETTING MY MIACUP IN
- eating alone in a crowded shopping mall (awww yeahhhhhhhh, I can't be the only one who really likes doing this)
- backing up my text messages with SMS Backup so I can finally delete them from my phone and have it running at normal speed again
- Ak Mak with edamame hummus (godly) and cottage cheese with granola
- Florence + The Machine (and Ceremonials)
- finally finishing my Dr. Bronner's peppermint lip balm because I can now convert everything to my Holy Grail of lip balms, Neutrogena Norwegian formula
I usually go for greasy lip balm, but this works like a greasy lip balm without the hair-stuck-on-my-lips-in-the-wind effect. HOLY GRAIL!
- penne with leeks, corn, and browned butter
- the women in my life
- Marnee Thai, especially for their golden triangles, spinach wraps, and veggie Pad Thai (and I'm not usually a Pad Thai fan)
- little squashlets
- that my associations with the rainy season in college all involve people I liked a lot, because it makes the weather that much more bearable
- deliciously crisp grapes
- Mockingjay, for Katniss/Peeta, because Katniss/Gale should have happened but life got in the way (and I was pleasantly surprised by how political the whole series turned out to be instead of romantic)
(YESSS! Finally someone else on tumblr posted a GIF of the Mockingjay pin catching on fire from the The Hunger Games trailer! I would've done it myself because I really wanted to be able to use it, but I don't know how to make GIFs from videos. (Now if someone would make an infinite-loop GIF of the burning Mockingjay pin from the movie website, I'd be totally set, because it is really effing cool.))
As always, click through (the image) for the source.
- signing my first non-disclosure agreement!
- LUMPY BARTLETT PEARS GOOD LORD THEY ARE DELICIOUS
- that my pseudo-internship and Ruby programming class are distracting me from Berkeley
- Justin Bieber, Justin Bieber’s leaked “Under The Mistletoe” album, and Justin Bieber’s pre- and post-pubescent voice, because I have no shame
- that a former classmate from my acting class remembers me as the alien monologue girl
- finding out that I am two degrees of separation from Chanel Iman
THAT Chanel Iman.
THE VICTORIA'S SECRET ANGEL CHANEL IMAN.
Whose face is so incredible that sometimes it makes me want to weep.
- Musical Offering for their London Fog, which is Earl Grey with like milk and vanilla or something, and their oatmeal with brown sugar, milk, raisins, and walnuts (everything was delicious and only lightly sweet)
- fishtail braids
- feeling blessed
- feeling beautiful
- browsing for varsity jackets, metallic striped sweaters, and chunky knits
- phone calls with Bella!!!
- vegetarian food on Kirkham (seriously, this place has 4.5 stars on Yelp for a reason)
- drying my feet with an actual towel
- dinner at La Med with my mom :) because despite the truly terrible service, the pomegranate chicken with pilaf was soooo gooooood
- Iron Man, which I somehow only just watched for the first time, for Robert Downey Jr.'s stupid adorable face, Tony Stark's douchebaggery, and the only time I have ever liked Gwyneth Paltrow
TONY STARK I JUST WANT TO SEE UNDER YOUR ARMOR IN EVERY WAY
I am so glad these GIFs are small enough to place side-by-side because... I think I'm going to have a full-blown Robert Downey Jr. situation soon.
I MEAN, JUST LOOK AT THAT FACE.
BB BOIIIIIIIII I WANNA HOLD YOUR HA-A-A-A-A-AND I'LL MAKE LOVE TO YOU LIKE YOU WANT ME TO
I MEAN, JUST LOOK AT THAT FACE.
BB BOIIIIIIIII I WANNA HOLD YOUR HA-A-A-A-A-AND I'LL MAKE LOVE TO YOU LIKE YOU WANT ME TO
- green papaya salad from Loving Hut (worst restaurant name ever?) because it was really, really, really good
- hot split pea soup from the SF Soup Company
- club sandwiches with tons of Thousand Island, served with French fries
- working on a giant (giant) hem with Sabah
- cold weather finally coming in
- Spenser for this really awful text, courtesy of voice recognition and Halloween partying:
I am stop drunk right now, hit gels awesome. I have a chapter of thesis too suite tomorrow, but I don'T give a shit, I'm just too drunk right new YouTube She Dip Nico fun at 1 am, holy shit
- Downton Abbey for Sybil, Mary, and Edith, and for Matthew, Lavinia, William, Daisy, Sybil’s face, Cora’s crazy-eyes, beautiful costumes, music that is now familiar and dear, the end of the war!, and the melodrama
- Tylenol
- searching for ugly striped sweaters
- panda-shaped cupcakes
- finally realizing my code wasn’t buggy; my testing was buggy
- Misfits, because Rudy is like Nathan but with an actual soft side (see: Sterling Archer, Tony Stark, and other characters I love and whom I believe are redeemable assholes), and because I love Kelly
- that I still don’t have a roommate
- Sam, Howard, Charlie, Elaine, Jess, Sabah (thank you for sorting socks with me! Worst job ever!), Evelyn, another Sam, Savio, Marimar, Nadya, Lou, Shannell, Jane for "Where is my bowl of sound?", Becky for her OMG AMAZING rings, and Wendy for letting me hem hundred-year-old pants
- that the series of earthquakes we had that one weekend wasn't huge or damaging
- bananas eaten with peanut butter straight out of the jar (GODLY)
- THESE STUNNING HUMAN BEINGS:
Alicia Silverstone looking AMAZING in a cropped fuzzy sweater and feather boa. Don't you just want to ...lock eyes from across the room and spend all night being intimidated by her? (Wait, is that just me?)
The color of the TARDIS offsets Karen Gillan's hair brilliantly in this GIF. Also, oh my God her eyebrows and eyes and mouth and DID I MENTION HER HAIR?
I feel like Ash Stymest is the only human who can be wearing that mid-smoke facial expression and standing with a group of male models and still be the most attractive person in the photo.
The further I get in Commentarius (at the time of writing, I'm on Chapter 15), the more I imagine James Potter played by Andrew Garfield, even though I was so, so opposed to the idea when I first heard it because he just doesn't fit my mental picture of him. (But now I think Andrew Garfield + really dorky suave = James Potter. Like Andrew Garfield as Eduardo in The Social Network, but less "sweet-looking Brazilian sophomore," and more "pasty Englishman," crossed with the tender parts of Jack from Boy A, Anton in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, and Tommy in Never Let Me Go, for when it comes to James's soft spots for Lily Evans and Quidditch. CAN'T YOU JUST SEE IT? HE EVEN HAS THE HAIR ALREADY.)
Pull your shirt down, Armie Hammer. You're going to cause a riot.
So this is Eddie Redmayne, whose acting I've never seen before (YOU GUISE, he's going to be in My Week with Marilyn alongside Michelle Williams THAT MEANS AN HOUR AND A HALF OF HIS FACE), but whom I'm sure most of you saw in the Burberry campaigns from a couple years ago. (Yeah, you might remember him as the one with the incredible bone structure and a mouth that should be illegal. GOOD THING HE'S COVERING IT IN THIS PICTURE.)
Harry Shum Jr., dancing in ridiculously well-tailored clothes. Yeah. Yeah, this is basically porn.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SENDING THIS TO ME, JESS.
OH, OCTOBER! IT'S BEEN GLORIOUS.
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