December 2010
Highlights of 2010
-boyfriend/partner in crime who is the most kick-ass fella around!
-2 book publishing internships!
-new apartment in the city (aka not moving back home).
-starting a UChicago tumblr.
-winning 10,000 for being the Harry Potter Uberfan!
-making new friends and finding out which ones are true.
-reading a crap ton and discovering new fandoms (hello, song of ice and fire!)
-learning to have...
“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...”
– ~ Neil Gaiman (via gatekeeper)
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Splurged at the Semi-Annual Sale...
I’m never NOT buying VS Very Sexy push-up bras again.
HOT DAMN. I have a rack. And it is glorious.
Like A Boss.
Timeline: done.
Notes/Research: done.
Outline: done.
Intro/thesis: done.
4 pages into my BA.
10 pages due by the end of January.
Getting a pizza to celebrate and building my Quidditch legos I got for Christmas.
My hero
JK Rowling in her college years was described as having “an attitude to academia best described as minimum work, maximum fun”.
So maybe those years I spent studying anthropology of pirates and comparative fairytales weren’t such a bad thing after all. :)
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Someone delivered chocolates to my house...
…they weren’t for me. I ate them anyway. I’m totally gonna have bad karma now, right?
“As long as we’re together, gonna kick some ass and it’s gonna be...”
– Starkid, AVPM
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“We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies...”
– Neil Gaiman in his Newbery Medal Acceptance Speech, The Graveyard Book. (via incandenza)
Return of the King is my favorite movie...
…all I want in this life is to be a Rider of Rohan and ride into battle atop a glorious steed.
I really just said that out loud.
New iPhone 4!
Finally got this baby set up! Now to download apps!
-Instagram
-Harry Potter Spells
-Tumblr
-Lightsaber
…any other good ones?
foreheadtittaes:
What do you desire, Miss Portman? To consume alcoholic beverages and become involved in violent altercations. What do you require, Miss Portman? To copulate for the duration of the evening.
On Turkish Delight
I always assumed Turkish Delight was like a Fig Newton with powdered sugar on top. Now that I know what it really is, I think I prefer my idea. I’m calling it an Arabesque Treasure. No? No.
Christmas gifts from boyfriend!
So Joe was uh-mazing this year for our first Christmas together. He got me waaay too much stuff. I got the Angel box set, Seasons 1 and 2 of Primeval, Harper’s Island, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (in Latin!) and the James Jean Fables Covers book!! Sooo much geekery and awesomeness. I had gotten him an XBOX 360 and a 32” flat screen for the house. Basically we’re...
Looking up sexual offenders in my area...
…2 of them live within walking distance of my house. lol.
Having a very Mean Girls moment.
IDIDNOTLEAVETHESOUTHSIDEFORTHIS
Improv Guac
I just made guacamole from scratch. Didn’t have a mortar and pestle, so I used a mixing bowl and a shotglass. Brilliant! And now I can use the shotglass for tequilla! Ole!
I am the best goddamn dancer in the American...