the lemon is in play

I wore this to go chasing after little kids at a playground (in an It Was My Little Cousin's Birthday way, not in a Humbert Humbert way). It was really tiring, but it was worth it because I love kids who are still in the early stages of language acquisition. (Their syntax and morphology are so much fun to observe. #maybe this is why i have a linguistics degree)

I rue the day I chopped up my mom's jeans to make these shorts, because I cut them SO UNEVENLY, but the longer leg is the length I wanted.

This pink scarf with metallic gold bits was a gift from Spenser's mom, probably from the day I went over to watch Doctor Who before the summer hiatus and was really, really disappointed (and charmed) by "A Good Man Goes To War."

IT'S JUST SO SHINY HOW COULD I SAY NO

Denim shorts: mother's, Old Navy + scissors. Jacket: gift. Scarf: gift. Thermal peeking out: Kohl's. Tights: BP Nordstrom. Fake Keds worn within an inch of their lives: Payless.

And since my last post was for the Harry Potter fandom, I claim this post in the name of the BBC radio show Cabin Pressure, which is about a tiny private airline and its crew and their shenanigans (and their pathetic lives).


(If you decide to listen to it... you can probably guess my favorite character is Captain Martin Crieff, and it's not even because Benedict Cumberbatch voices him. HE'S JUST SO PATHETIC I WANT TO LOVE HIM.)


Here's a clip from Season 2, Episode 6, where they're flying to Limerick:

And here's a small set of quotes that I literally laughed out loud at:

MARTIN: It seems the cargo hold heating may not have been turned on.
DOUGLAS: Masterly use of the passive voice. 

ARTHUR: Aha, my signature dish. Behold! Surprising Rice.
DOUGLAS: Good lord!
MARTIN: What are those bits?
ARTHUR: Ah, you see, Skipper, if you don't mind me saying so, that question is entirely against the spirit of Surprising Rice. 

CAROLYN: Ladies and gentlemen, the captain has now illuminated the seat belt sign, so please ensure your baggage and duty-free are safely stowed, your tray tables are folded away, and your seat is returned to the upright position. Or, as they say in Limerick ...

The captain has turned on the signs
So stow away bags of all kinds
Then make sure your tray is folded away
And your seatback no longer reclines. 

MARTIN: But I have always wanted to be an airline captain.
DOUGLAS: Really?
MARTIN: Yes, ever since I was six.
DOUGLAS: Ah! And before that?
MARTIN: I wanted to be an aeroplane.

Things I Love (Belatedly): December 2011

Hi, December. This post is shamefully late, but I couldn't sleep knowing that I haven't publicly thanked you for everything you gave me, so here's a list of reasons why I love you. 


You gave me...

• cross-cut sweet potato fries, Szechuan style eggplant, and hard cider
• post-vomiting Gatorade that turned my teeth blue for days
• my (secondhand) Betsey Johnson dress
• my new rust-colored tights
• Paris Baguette, which is a gr8000 bakery

Their blueberry and cream cheese pastries and their sweet potato twists are the pastries of THE GODS.

• Will, who (ahahahahaha) tried to help
• sweet French baguettes
• the Vignette Android photo app because it makes everything look ~dramatic
• really good-looking sensible shoes

...and much more (so much more) after the jump, because frankly, these posts are enormous.

I write stuff after the jump.

Things I Love: October 2011

OCTOBER, I feel like I've been idling for a year now, but you just dropped out of the sky and reminded me what it's like when my hands are not idle, and for that I thank you, because I feel like I'm in motion again. I want to kiss your stupid face for bringing me these:

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

Things I Love (Belatedly): August and September 2011

This is hella late because of my tendinitis, but don't you worry there my honey, we might not have any money, but we've got our love to pay the bills because Things I Love October will be (somewhat) more timely! (I hope!)


In August and September, I went from home to school, from having trouble gripping doorknobs to being able to floss my own teeth, and from Muggle to official Ravenclaw. It was awesome. So thanks, August and September, for bringing me this giant bundle of joy:

• removing very long, very stubborn ingrown hairs
• rereading Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, especially for canon!Ron and smarmy!Lockheart (and Draco's sometimes witty insults)
• Blue Valentine, which I somehow forgot to mention when I watched it in July, even though it was painful to watch, for Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams, and "You and Me" by Penny and the Quarters

I've had a crush on Ryan Gosling since I first saw Remember the Titans (which I paid almost no attention to because I was completely thunderstruck by Ryan Gosling's charm and dumb hair and great smile). I was ten when Remember the Titans came out, so it's a bit strange to me that I still find him really attractive. I think it's that mixture of earnest and cheeky that I find completely irresistible.

• gummy vitamins
• Spicy Thai kettle chips
• getting into Pottermore as StarMoonstone25
• rereading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, for Cedric, Fleur, the Quidditch World Cup, and reading into the Draco/Pansy responsible for the Rita Skeeter articles
• Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, mainly for Aziraphale and Crowley, but also for Anathema Device and Newton Pulsifer, Adam Young, Death, Famine, Pollution, War, and the four other Riders of the Apocalypse (I was laughing so hard I had to spit my drink out when they were introduced)

OOH ER, MR. AZIRAPHALE
LET'S DO IT
AND I WILL LEAVE MY TARTAN STRAPS ON

• rereading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, totally just for Draco
• rereading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, for Sirius and how Harry loses him (and for Tonks before she and Lupin become a thing)
• poached peaches
• long-ass walks
• Nature Valley granola thins (This is the second time they've shown up with their own captioned picture in a Things I Love post, but I refuse to apologize because they are the FOOD OF THE GODS.)

♪ I've never had a dream come true / until the day that I found you ♪

• "Coda To An Epilogue: Twenty Years Later, Or The Kids Are All Right," the epilogue-compliant Harry Potter fanfiction by Maya. (Accept no substitutes!) If you never read any other piece of fanfiction in your life, this is the #1 short piece I recommend. (As for long pieces, Maya's "Quality of Mercy" is GREAT, and so is The Shoebox Project. Actually "Drop Dead Gorgeous" by Maya is really good too, but the premise is so crack-y it makes me nervous to recommend it.)

James’ Owl had begun: Dear Mum and Dad, You never listen to me even though I am always right. That little nit Al got himself Sorted into Slytherin. 

“Oh, my God,” Harry’d said. He’d told Al there was nothing wrong with it, and of course there wasn’t, but he’d been counting on James to look after Al in Gryffindor and – and anyway, Al in Slytherin, it was ridiculous, how did they even do the Sorting these days?

• Small Gods by Terry Pratchett, for Brutha, religion, faith, Om, and turtles. (I suspect this might be my favorite Discworld novel so far, but I have to reread it to make sure I like it better than Night Watch.)
• Archer, because WHY DIDN'T I KNOW THIS SHOW EXISTED? I love it for Sterling Archer, Cheryl, Archer/Lana, Archer and Mrs.Archer’s relationship, and STERLING ARCHER (the still for this video is completely representative of the show, actually)

• rereading Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett, mainly for Polly
• 60s girl group music, thanks to A Fluffy Blog
• spicy eggplant
• Sebastian, Tony, Jeffrey, Spenser, Lincoln, Jessie, Daniel, Jocelyn, Jess, Mark, Kamille, Shannell, Ash, Evelyn, Sam, Connie, Jason, Dustin, Jessica, Henry, Steven, and my cousins (boy, I'm sure I missed someone)
• girls with body hair, which is ugh so sexy to me (well, hair to a certain extent, like Noomi Rapace's armpit hair in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo HNNGHHH)
• that my week ends on Thursdays
• Doctor Who, for Eleven, Amy, and "The God Complex" because I have so many feelings for Eleven/Amy's non-romantic relationship

• Monopoly Deal, which is the only version of Monopoly I like (because it goes so much faster than the board game)
• Ici for Muscat brandied-current ice cream, and something with candied cashews, and candied Meyer lemon, and handmade cones lined with chocolate
• ginger ice cream
• Chipotle steak burritos with corn salsa
• Downton Abbey, for Theo Jones who played the sexy as fuck Turkish dude in Episode 3, Maggie Smith as the Dowager Countess, Lady Mary, Lady Edith, LADY SYBIL, Gwen, Anna, and the music and costumes. I'm sorry that there are like 30 images to follow.

I don't know why I like Daisy so much considering how much I wanted William x Daisy to happen, but I really do. (It may be my affection for her accent.)

Sometimes I look at Lady Mary and clutch my heart because she is so pretty, even right after she wakes up.

My weakness for turn-of-the-century newspaper boy attire is showing.

Downton Abbey is BEEEAUUUUTIFUL.

Lord Grantham and his flowers.

Lord Grantham and his flowers.

SEE WHAT I DID THERE?

LOOK AT LADY EDITH'S AND LADY MARY'S DRESSES AND HAAAAIIIIR

Cora's bizarre British/American English pleases linguist!Sam.

DEAR GOD HER HAIR

HAHA LADY GRANTHAM'S FACE

THE DOWAGER COUNTESS IS FABULOUS

I am including this image solely for Gwen. (Well. Her, and the costumes and set are beautiful.)

Cora is judging you.

But not as much as Violet is.

DEM COSTUMES. I love the high neckline + ruffles + necklace on Lady Grantham.

LOOK AT THOSE BEAUTIFUL LADIES

omg Edith's hair and dress

OMG MARY'S FACE AND TOP. That collar and those sleeves and the bust darts and the little buttons!!!

SYBIL CRAWLEY, MY LOVE!

THE DRESS

Just including this because I like Mrs. Hughes.

WHY, GOD? WHY THAT FACE? WHY SUCH BEAUTY IN THIS PLACE?
Also, HER NECKLACE AND DRESS. UNF.

costumesssssssssss

Deeply enjoying Mary's hat. (And her face.) Side note: I didn't realize that most of my theater class didn't know what a milliner was. I live in a bubble.

Oh.

The Turkish diplomat as played by Theo Jones has an OBSCENE mouth. (Well, he's got nothing on Tom Hardy, but still. A guy like you should wear a warning.)

Anna (!) and LADY SYBIL, MY QUEEN

• my brother
• acupuncture
• the Embarcadero Farmer’s Market, pancakes with orange butter and plum (?) compote, breakfast potatoes, fresh orange juice
• texting Bella
• Jess, especially for introducing me to popping boba, which I find completely gross, but which my presentation partner and I used as the "interactive" part of our presentation on ovarian cysts

We mixed lychee popping boba with strawberry sauce and a bit of chocolate syrup. My presentation partner Ashleyrose did the color mixing, and it turned out uncannily close to the color and consistency of menstrual fluids. If this hasn't totally ruined your appetite, Ashleyrose just started a food blog, and y'all should CHECK HER OUT.

• my female sexuality class really hard
• my costume lab
• reading The Hunger Games, for Katniss, Gale, and Peeta, and for its entertainment value
• fishtail braids
• forgetting which room the Harry Potter class was going to be in, but not needing to look it up because "Hedwig's Theme" was blasting out of one of the doorways and it was like coming home (even though I had to drop the class ;__;)
• coloring my SPACE VULVA

THE FINAL FRONTIER


The line drawing is from the Cunt Coloring Book, and our first assignment for my female sexuality class was to color a vulva. I decided to make mine all space-and-nebulae (so tumblr! so hipster!) because my view on my own sexuality is that it's simultaneously terrifying and beautiful. Also it is mysterious because it's mostly unexplored territory.

• Catching Fire, for Katniss, Gale, Peeta, and Finnick (UNF)
• a cropped sweater from H&M and a new Aerie bra (I highly recommend the Ella)
• the smell of peppermint
• tai chi
• Stacks for amazing French toast and apple compote (and wow, really good waiters)
• bathroom stalls with bag hooks
• figs, cherries
• rumble strips
• Ratatouille

Worth watching if you have been living under a rock like me and still haven't seen it!

• Asqew for blue cheese burgers, delicious mashed potatoes, and grilled zucchini
• Yeats poems (Remus Lupin knows what I'm talkin' 'bout), which surprises me every time I read him. I think I just like his style a lot.
• Suits, for Mike and Harvey's relationship, and especially for Mike/Rachel (which is apparently an unpopular opinion because people like Mike/Jenny more, but I just sympathize with Rachel so hard)

I blame Spenser for getting me into this show. The pilot didn't blow me away, but it was intriguing enough that I kept watching, and by the fourth or fifth episode, I was completely hooked.

• my class about religion and spirituality
• hummus
• Across the Universe, because I've been meaning to see it since it first came out. To be honest, I found this movie surprisingly tedious for one that involves characters breaking into song. That might be because I was upset at how bad Jim Sturgess's mullet looked, or it might be because I get really bored by stories about relationships that fall apart because people are too self-centered. (See (500) Days of Summer. See Closer.)

I felt totally deceived by this trailer because this whole time, I've been under the impression that this was an epic romance (possibly because I was supposed to go on a date to watch this, but the theater was closed, so I always associated this with like romantic blue balls). This is the trailer that made me want to see it in the first place because it made it seem so... First Love. And then it was, but only for like five minutes.


Also the singing soldiers totally rubbed me the wrong way. It's funny because the more war-related film and television I watch, the more I like Full Metal Jacket, even though my initial reaction to it was distaste.

• my mother for buying me a polka-dotted Bebe blouse, a floral velvet-slip-dress sort of Betsey Johnson number, and red satin Nine West platform heels, all from Goodwill
• date bread from West Portal Bakery
• jump roping with Carissa
• “Boats and Birds” really hard because I can't help thinking about Eleven/Amy's relationship
• Ann Taylor Loft for my very first and only office appropriate skirt
• The Emperor’s New Groove, because this movie still makes me laugh like I'm ten years old.

FLAWLESS EMPEROR IS FLAWLESS.

Kuzco is the Master of Disguise.

I love the gross closeups of Izma's face because it reminds me of the gross closeups in Ren & Stimpy (but more funny than disgusting).

MY BB!!!

• my brother for new headphones
• my cousin for driving me back to school, and his Snoop Dogg GPS
• my Doctor Who and Harry Potter posters, thanks to Spenser
• delicious fluffy butter with sourdough toast
• my MIACUP ARRIVING, because it led to the first time I have ever been excited for my period! (If you're curious about menstrual cups, there's a really good Livejournal community with information here, and I'm planning on doing a post on my experiences sometime.)
• The Prince of Egypt

AAARGH, I LIKE THIS MOVIE A LOT. As someone who spent my youth learning the New Testament, it was really exciting for me to finally study the Old Testament in eighth grade (even though it wasn't part of the curriculum), and wow, did it change my perspective on Catholicism. (Maybe that's why they told us not to worry about it. I did end up denouncing my faith a few years later.) (Also, apologies - I should probably say Greek and Hebrew Bibles, but I feel like those phrases are unrecognizable to most people as the New and Old Testaments. Hey! There's the Christian privilege we talked about in class!)

• my mom
• my grandma
• Trader Joe's triple ginger snaps
• Thai Basil’s pineapple fried rice (delicious!!!)
• chive dumplings
• The Playboy Club, which I only watched the pilot of and which was totally cancelled. For Amber Heard, who kind of unfortunately reminds me of Kristen Stewart in that she is really good-looking but spends most of her screen-time looking either vacant or preoccupied with worry, and for the costumes.

• edamame hummus (godly!)
• celery with peanut butter
• FINALLY GETTING MY POTTERMORE EMAIL, MINERVA MCGONAGALL, BADASS MCGOOGLES, and being sorted into Ravenclaw,  (RRRRAAAAAVENCLAW! I called it when I was nine. I was always going to be a Ravenclaw, even if I had my Slytherin and Gryffindor doubts. Although to be honest I think the Sorting Hat wanted to put me into Hufflepuff and I can't imagine why.)
• GORGEOUS PEOPLE (mostly women this month, which is strange because I thought I overdosed on gorgeous women when I marathoned Downton Abbey, but apparently not)

Starting with some Frida Gustavsson. Who should not be allowed.

Oh my GOD, her face is so sweet. (Also totally fawning over that hair and that dress and those shoes!)

SIGH. Her face slays me.

KARLIEEEEEEEE! Her eyebrows always get me.

Have a Rose Byrne, because she is just UNREALISTIC.

Gurl, your hair and eyebrows and eyes and nose and lips and cheeks and skin rewrite history.

Let's finish off with Francisco Lachowski, because I can't argue with this face.

Or this hair. Or mouth. 

My first thought was "This is a good angle for you, Francisco." I wonder what that says about me.

YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME.

Thank you, August and September, for the fantastic end of my summer and gorgeous start to my final semester of college.

Let's get coffee sometime.