Finally

In celebration of second semester today I started This Side of Paradise, French Women Don't Get Fat, Walden, Coraline, and Freakanomics. I feel like at least one of those will not be finished. But here are some beautiful pictures of books.

Laszyyzyzy

No exams today, finally.

So I'm in my bed listening to What Would I Want Sky, which is the perfect mix of joyful and relaxed. So happy. And I have a smoothie. And I just booked a facial. Life is lookin up kids.

I'm thinking second semester I will become immortal.

Books

This is the past year and a half, I'm still unsatisfied. I wish I could learn, like really learn! Which happens when I read but there is no tiiimmee. * means it was for school

Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll

A Lifetime of Secrets: A PostSecret Book, Frank Warren

All You Need To Be Impossibly French; A Witty Investigation into the Lives, Lusts,

and Little Secrets of French Women, Helena Frith Powell

* The Analects, Confucius

* An American Childhood, Annie Dillard

* Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Barbara Kingsolver

Anthem, Ayn Rand

* Antigone, Sophocles

Audrey Style, Pamela Clarke Keogh

* Beloved, Toni Morrison

* The Book of Job, The Bible

* Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

The Cat’s Gallery of Western Art, Susan Herbert

Ceremony, Leslie Marmon Silko

Christ In Concrete, Pietro Di Donato

Chocolate Bar: Recipes and Entertaining Ideas for Living the Sweet Life, Matt Lewis and Alison Nelson

* Chuang Tzu, Chuang Chou

College is Yours: in 100 Words or Less, Patrick O’Connor

Cooking Without Frontiers: An International Cookbook, Meijer Pers

* In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan

* Diet for a Small Planet, Francis Moore Lappe

Gawain NG Diyos/Gods Work, Lawrence Sumulong

* Genesis, The Bible

Gilgamesh, translation by Herbert Mason

* The Great Gastby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

* Grendel, John Gardner

* Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad

The House at Pooh Corner, A.A. Milne

Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte

* King Lear, William Shakespeare

* Le Petit Prince (in French), Antoine De Saint-Exupery

* (selections from) The Mahabharata, Ancient Sanskrit

* Medea, Euripides

My Secret: A PostSecret Book, Frank Warren

Now We Are Six, A.A. Milne

* Oedipus the King, Sophocles

Of Wolves and Men, Barry Holstun Lopez

* The Omnivore’s Delemma, Michael Pollan

One Hundred Years of Poetry for Children, (Oxford)

* Pooh Perplex: A Freshman Casebook, Frederick Crews

* Postmodern Pooh, Frederick Crews

PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives, Frank Warren

* (selections from) The Qur’an, Mohammed

* The Ramayana of Valmiki, Ancient Sanskrit

Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare

* Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Tom Stoppard

The Secret Language of Symbols: A Visual Key to Symbols and Their Meanings, David Fontana

The Secret Lives of Men and Women: A PostSecret Book, Frank Warren

* Siddhartha, Herman Hesse

The Tao of Pooh, Benjamin Hoff

* Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy

This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald

When We Were Very Young, A.A. Milne

Winnie-The-Pooh, A.A. Milne

* Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte

1000 Journals Project, Someguy

2009

I have this frozen memory of you on a bike bike bike

with a coke in hand

and a flannel on

riding over the grass

to see me maybe later

I have this frozen memory of you on a baseball diamond

with a box of cigarettes

tucked into your

tee shirt sleeve

and then we made some veggie burgers

on english muffins

I have this frozen memory of you on a bike bike bike

massaging my shoulders as we rode

how do you have such good balance

I think it was dangerous for us to be there

But you're tall

so I guess it was ok

I have this frozen memory of you on top of a hill

wait no, we were frozen

I pulled my hat over my eyes

I know it was dangerous for us to be there

but it was necessary

so I know it was okay

I have this frozen memory of you in my life

but I think that

it is possibly

a good time

for me to end this poem

and move on

WOnderful

I'll Be Fine Once I Get It

I'm so hyped on caffeine I can't control my body, completely accidental. I just took my dog for a walk and literally skipped half a block and then did a jig in my driveway. Nooot natural.

The Kid Cudi Pursuit of Happiness video is genius. Wonderful commentary on alcohol and partying, then the ending makes me sad and sick. It reminds me of my New Years.

Let Me Preach

Braids

So with exam week, my hair is perpetually in a braid, which requires no time (and no washing...)

So with exam week, my ass is perpetually online not studying, which requires lots of time (and no productivity...)

True

I Need Outside

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more, From these our interviews, in which I steal From all I may be, or have been before, To mingle with the Universe, and feel What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal. Lord Byron, from Childe Harold, Canto iv, Verse 178

Dream Room

This is what I want my room to look like.

It's the perfect average Sunday, homework, Iron & Wine, coffee, incense. The cold is outside and I'm all cozy doing homework, which is almost painless on such a beautiful day.

Finally

Party

TONIGHT

Sweet Water Organics

A few days ago I returned to Sweet Water Organics to help with worm composting.

They have a very admirable mission and it was so interesting!

Snow

It's absolutely beautiful today, the snow is coating the tree outside my window. I stayed home from school today, sleeping when it snows is the best. But I hate being behind in school it's so stressful.

And as much as I love the new snow, I really miss this.

New Years Resolutions

Hah

Personally, I'm not a fan of Gaugin as a person ( not to mention his work, not quite to my tasete blehh) , but this picture really makes me want to get to know the man!

I believe it was taken by Mucha, too.