How the fuck did I think I could write a research paper about media representation of religion in Northern Ireland before the Good Friday agreement (which was in 1998) when EVERY BOOK I checked out of the library was published BEFORE 1997 ( Read more... )

T minus ten days until I finally have time to try and make some gluten free oatmeal raisin cookies!

1. I finally got my hands on some Ibarra hot chocolate. Not as cinnamon-y as I'd remembered, but I added some and it was awesome. Also, at Berkeley Bowl today I bought english breakfast tea and juice squeeze. My life is gonna rock for the next couple of weeks... beverage-wise at least ( Read more... )

Dear Dickens Fair Friends:

So I'm taking a Victorian Mysteries English class this semester, and every once in a while something will come up like clothing and I want to say something like "oh, but you don't KNOW what it's like to wear a corset, let me tell you!" But then I realize that I don't really know and also that it wouldn't contribute ( Read more... )

I have a new obsession: Polaroid pictures. This is possibly because they have stopped making polaroid film. Also, because they are so nostalgic and artsy ( Read more... )

my uterus hates me. it's okay, though, it's a mutual hate.

I could possibly have a HUGE crush on MGMT.

and by possibly, I mean probably.

(p.s. emilytheodd, we're ABSOLUTELY going to see them at Slims on April 24. just thought you may want to mark it down ( Read more... )

Have I ever told you that I love my job ( Read more... )

So MONTHS ago I saw this jacket in the window of The Gap. Now I try not to shop at Gap, you know, on principle, because they are a greedy Multinational Corporation and because they are SUCH a label. But this jacket was THE Jacket. The one I've been wanting and sketching on the back pages of my notebooks. It was the perfect shape and fit, it had the ( Read more... )

this is killing me! (aha! I made a funny, but you don't get it yet ( Read more... )