List of Lists (So Meta)

Things You Should Click On For Possibly Sketchy Self-Promotional Purposes

• My interview with Vanessa from My Heart Blogged
  

Things That Have Been Ruined for Me by Partaking in the The Social Network Fandom

• Disney’s Hercules
• Joan Jett’s “I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll”
• Disney’s Bambi
• Jimmy Ruffin’s “What Becomes of the Broken Hearted”
• real men
• the phrase “a ho who didn’t know her place”
• Muppets
• the phrase “so sexy”
• the phrase “hella horny”
• Skins
• Tom Jones’s “It’s Not Unusual”
• chickens
• maps
• Vespas
• the word “adequate”
• “Where is Love” from Oliver
• the name Abraham
• cats

Things I Find Unbearably Beautiful But Which Probably Reveal My Ignorance

• “whale road” – a translation of the Norse/Old English phrase meaning “the sea/ocean”
• the phrase “ships passing in the night”
• the opening of Lolita
• the first two lines of The Stranger
• “The Shire”
• the last lines of Great Expectations
• Harry’s “Does it hurt?” moment from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
• the The Social Network trailer using “Creep”
• the Tree of Life trailer
• Never Let Me Go, even though I wouldn’t call it one of my favorite books or movies
• “Touch Me” from Spring Awakening
• the animation style used in The Secret of Kells
• the entirety of The Thin Red Line
• crowds of singing people

Pop Culture References/Memes Incorporated into My Cognitive Science Pre-Midterm Notes

• #kanyeshrug
• “Is this the real life, or is this just fantasy?”
• the Yo Dawg meme
• the Inception PARADOX
• Armie Hammer, who is Aristotle
• Colin Firth, who is Locke
• "Please, Abraham, I am not that man"
• dream is collapsing
• becoss
• “whip me if I misbehave”
• “Baby Got Back”
• “such a radical”
• GQMF
• King of the Cosmos
• the rules of Fight Club

A Smattering of Unrelated Observations

• It is easier for me to break a sweat by driving than by running.
• The hyphen in “fazed-girl” doesn’t make sense.
• I own almost nothing pink, and this sometimes disappoints me when I want to be wearing pink.
• David Tennant is a fox. (How many times can I say this until I start annoying myself?)
• My pinkies are really weak now that I haven’t been playing the piano regularly for four years. And when I say "really weak," I mean my piano teacher probably wouldn't be able to say that I play like a man anymore. (This makes me sad.)
  

Current Style Direction

• looking dirty, like I crawled out of a gutter in London, or like Bellatrix Lestrange, or Marla Singer, or Idris/the TARDIS
• giant fur monster coat
• a “pretty” dress in some very light material, like chiffon or georgette
• ratty lace
• black flat/platform wedges (no patent leather, preferably leather + canvas)
• get in the habit of exposing my knees again
• knee-length crinoline (black, off-white)
• black satin slips
• smudgy, sparkly gray eyeshadow
• bird’s nest hair
• Look Good Outside, Feel Good Inside

Things I Wore During Dead Week Because I Am The Epitome Of Style

Wow, you guys! Mirror shots? It feels like fashion blogging circa 2006! And my outfits are even as bad as they were in 2006 when I was posting on MyStyleDiary! DO TODAY'S BLOGGERS EVEN REMEMBER WHAT IT WAS LIKE WHEN WE ALL TOOK MIRROR PHOTOS?

Disclaimer: These outfits are for LULZ, and I am wearing leggings as pants.

air in running

What the hell am I wearing? I DON'T KNOW, GUYS. The short-sleeved blazer is my aunt's, but it's part of a set with a pair of shorts. Yes, a matching SHORT-SLEEVED SUIT JACKET + SHORTS set. It has to be wearable. It has to. I will find a way. I WILL TAKE THE RING, THOUGH I DO NOT KNOW THE WAY.

Above, beret: H&M. Short-sleeved blazer: aunt's, hand-me-down. Bag: London Fog via ideeli. Dress: secondhand + crooked bubble hem. Tights: Costco. Socks: Nordstrom. Shoes: Harajuku Lovers.

dress down, part deux

Dead week attire. The dirty hair makes it extra classy. For the record, piling on accessories does not an outfit make.

Watch: Anchor Blue. Bracelet: mother's. Cardigan: don't know. T-shirt: Cal Student Store. Green jeans: Target. Flats: Palladium Freerubber.

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I am an old person cheap and watch matinees. Is there a problem, officer?

In a pathetic tribute to Avatar, which I had the misfortune of watching after viewing glowpinkstah's makeup tutorial (with the result of Jake's first appearance in his avatar eliciting "Oh my God, Pandoran acne!" from me), I made a half-hearted attempt to channel my inner Na'vi (helllll yeah constructed language!) by putting on too much blue and braiding my greasy bangs. I am hesitant to post this because my outfit is so poorly composed it in no way does justice to the noble Na'vi people of Pandora. I hope the "what the hell am I wearing" label for this post will act as a sufficient disclaimer.

Blue skirt: made by my grandmother. Dark blue turtleneck: Charter Club, mother's. Dark blue tights: BP Nordstrom. Blue sneakers: Harajuku Lovers via Nordstrom Rack.

FIRST DAY OF CLASSES TODAY. Aaaand it's pouring outside.

too much pink

I'm sure this happens to everyone, but sometimes I'll get the urge to wear one particular item and then base a whole outfit around it.

What I'm not sure happens to everyone (or maybe I'm the only one unwise enough to follow through on what are clearly impulses designed to lead me astray from the golden path toward Sartorial Self-Actualization) is that sometimes I'll get the urge to wear a bunch of items that may or may not go together all at once.

So wanting to wear my new boots and wanting to wear my perilously-constructed bubble skirt and wanting to wear my mom's argyle United Colors of Benetton sweater and wanting to wear these tights my friend bought me and my tendency to be impulsive resulted in this:

Not atrocious, but definitely not as fabulous as my smile might seem to indicate. I must have hot pink on the brain?

Sweater: United Colors of Benetton, mother's. New glasses: Oscar de la Renta via Costco (classy). Bubble skirt: DIY mess. Hot pink vertical stripe tights: gift. Visual leg-stumping boots: Steven by Steve Madden.