What I did while I was away

Besides college admissions and a senior project? I have three Advanced Placement classes. One of them, art. Art takes up seven hours of my life, per week (minimum). I have 20 or so possible pieces for my Portfolio. Here are three.

Dishes#1

French Horn#1 (I'm going to give it another go on a massive sheet of yellowed paper that I found in my art supply storage facility, and whip out the india ink.)

Autumnal Night (My teacher absolutely loves this piece for some reason.)

As for reading, I finished the Thin Man, by Dashiell Hammett, which was very good. I recommend it to any mystery or noir film aficionado. I also finished two books that are part of a series that a family friend is writing. The Body Finder series. ....Read at your own risk. I finished Pride and Prejudice, Othello, and Dante's Inferno. I also re-read The Hobbit and Beowulf, and read Heart of Darkness. Joseph Conrad really is magnificent.

Stylin'

amelia hearts whoring around on the www

Yesterday, I realized that I could never live without you.

I love the attention-whoreish work that is blogging far too much to ever let it go.

(365) Days of English Literature

I'm posting on a whim. Sort of.

I was reading an old Calvin and Hobbes strip, and it got me thinking about new years resolutions. And I decided, that if I'm going to make any resolutions, I might as well start sooner then later. That is why I have decided to have an October 26th resolution. I shall read 100 stories, and by October 25th, I shall have finished reading these 100 stories. Writing this down, I'm probably making my blog feel like it's a sort of sad spin-off of the Julie/Julia project. But I don't plan on devoting all my time to writing about Ulysses, and The Tropic of Cancer, and Steinbeck, and so on and so forth. The lists I'm looking at consist of mostly western literature, but I don't really have a problem with that. I'm considering creating a list of my very own, taking top 40 or so from Harvard's Bookstore, TIME magazine, Modern Library, and Gutenberg, and sorting through each until I have a list of books that might not completely lull me to sleep, because, you know, not everyone absolutely loves Great Expectations.

I'm considering telling my english teacher about my little project. I think he'll really like it.

I think Beowulf should be somewhere on everybody's 100 list. It's the first whole recorded piece of english literature. It won't be part of mine because, I've already finished it, but I think the poetic translation (from the original old english) is beautiful, and worth trying to finish at least.

I don't know what the other 99 are exactly yet, I'll have my list finished by tomorrow. but I've started things off with Modern Library Board's first pick, Ulysses by James Joyce. 

And, yes Katie, Vonnegut is most certainly on the list!

Want to Be Her

I am taking my first ballet lesson in November. I'm hoping that my being Russian will give me some sort of advantage. I've wanted to try ever since I was about 3 or 4. Perhaps I will change my mind about Ballet. Perhaps I will fall in love with it. Perhaps my first pair of pointe shoes will be red ones. We shall see.

STEAL of the century

Not of the century. I exaggerate.

I might be becoming just a little bit eccentric when it comes to the way I dress. Or maybe this one has something to do with the fact that I practically live in my High School's art room. But....

It was the dress that I wanted for 9 months of my life. But it was $156.

But then! The dress was $30!

And so, it was mine.

fin.

Hello

Yes, I am most certainly back. With news that may or may have not yet reached ye readers. Lanvin comes to H&M November 20th. Oh.my.god.

They will show the collection online on November 2nd. Lanvin makes really wonderful ballet flats. I hope they decided to make some for H&M!

If you went to Google and you typed in "lanvin ballet flats" into the image search engine, this photo is the first one you would see. And I want these shoes. I do. A friend of mine almost bought ones very similar to these for me while in France. I saw a picture of them, and decided that if I could not have them in my life, that I would find another shoe that looked like them. So... Hello, Lanvin collection for November, 2010!

Greatest Line of Carbonated Drinks To Ever Have Been Produced, No?

Karl Lagerfeld is the man behind a no-calorie beverage campaign. It figures. Hello, would any Frenchies like to hand over their Karl Cokes? No? ...Ok. Hello, Ebay!

This photo is courtesy of Cuillere a Absinthe. Cuillere a Absinthe, it is a very excellent French blog, but it has been a while since French classes and Madame Peters, and my not-so-wide French vocabulary makes it a difficult read sometimes. Special thanks to Google Translator for giving me more good blogs to read!