Well, the shower's occupied

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Listening: Grouper, a Portland based singer named Liz Harris. Also, the Roja/Bombay cassette my mother found in a box, Grass Skirt- All Girl Summer Fun Band (because its too cold up here)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJLUnDMVIsY

Watching: Vicky Cristina Barcelona off watch-movies.net, House, Gossip Girl, and I recently saw Revolutionary Road, which actually disappointed me... maybe I'll post more about that later


Reading: White Mughals by William Dalrymple. So good! It's about the phenomenon of British officers marrying Mughal princesses in India in the 16/1700s, and adopting the culture. This was actually somewhat accepted until the mid 1800s, where there was a complete turn in terms of attitude and instead of appreciating the culture the British attitude became much more imperialistic, exploitative, and condescending... I like it because it complicates the trajectory of colonialism. ON THE READING LIST: Susan Sontag's journals... I read an excerpt and was immediately hooked, I need to get my hands on it


Wearing: Uhm, actually just what I was wearing yesterday and fell asleep in... plaid square-neck top and leggings


Wanting: To have gone to Restaurant Week dinner with all my friends, but taking the train was too much of a hassle so I missed the apparently delish Tribeca Grill dinner.


And also...
Aurelia Cardigan http://www.allsaintsshop.co.uk/product/?searchtext=&area=W&category_id=26&page=1&all=1&position=11&prod_desc_id=5051214382555
I want that so badly, but I can't quite justify it
http://www.allsaintsshop.co.uk/product/?searchtext=&area=W&category_id=26&page=1&all=1&position=18&prod_desc_id=5051214382883

ALSO WANTING: My thesis to be finished already

Keeping busy in Po-town...

(image courtesy of Noah Fowler)

So after years of finding myself drained from 14-hour days of unproductive blog-reading, I finally decided 'Goddamn, I need to do something with my life. I need to have routine and obligations, a space to think, something to show for these long days of doing absolutely nothing.' After all, I spent 80% of my internet time lengthening my Favorites list of more items I couldn't possibly afford or bookmarking cooking recipes or crafts projects I won't get to... so instead of starting on that long list, I figured I'd just showcase my favorites and at least this way, I'll be able to look back on all those things I've briefly thought about. I tend to ramble on... most of my days here are spent waking up around 10, browsing the internet for another hour until I take an hour long shower (every day I try to save water but it hasn't happened yet), and then I move from friend's houses to coffeehouses to nearby restaurants to converse with other people about the same old shit. But my point was that I tend to ramble on, so my one major rule for this blog is to KEEP IT SHORT. We'll see how that goes.