To The Virgins, to Make Much of Time

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Okay, so this is just gonna be a one thing list, but it is worthy for the amount of bother it is. 

Things That Bother Me

1. When boys think that liking Kate Upton makes them somehow progressive.

More specifically, when boys think that liking Kate Upton makes them somehow progressive for women’s self acceptance and self love, because she has “womanly curves”. One male friend said to me “She’s changing what it means to be a woman.” AKA “No more of that stick thin booby free shit. Bring on the BOOBS.” And I didn’t even recognize it at the time, let alone have the capacity to articulate it, but that is such bullshit. Kate Upton is firstly, very beautiful. Her body too, is very beautiful. This is not a Kate Upton bashing. It’s a critique of the thought process that many males take on around women’s bodies. An opportunity for thoughtful conversation, and a deepening of understanding. Liking Kate Upton doesn’t promote the acceptance and appreciation of so-called “real women” with “real curves”. It promotes yet another even harder to attain ideal for women— still fairly stick thin, just with enormous, bouncy breasts attached. It doesn’t promote “real women”. It promotes one kind of real woman’s body, just as most thin fashion models promote another kind of real woman’s body. Liking Kate Upton (and, let’s just take a moment to consider what exactly ‘liking’ means— ahem, computer screen and box of tissues. Oh, so very progressive of you to appreciate a woman solely for her appearance. Continue) doesn’t make you progressive. It doesn’t mean you accept “real women” with “real womanly curves”. It won’t promote the real women in your life to accept their own bodies, because Kate Upton’s body is just another extremely unattainable ideal, that is equally, if not more unattainable for most women than being stick thin. Kate Upton’s body is a real woman’s body. So is Coco Rocha’s. So is mine. Accepting only one type of body as a “real woman“‘s body will never be progressive.

SIDE NOTE! In other news, this is a GREAT article on Kate Upton’s commendable denial to a boy’s prom proposal. If you are not a current fan of Upton’s, this will make into one— and not in the way you’d think. http://nymag.com/thecut/2013/03/kate-upton-will-not-go-to-prom-with-that-nerd.html

im: bored/ in: love/ :bed: peace:/: hair.

mad props if you can figure that one out. here’s a list of ten things i love/ 10 things i hate.

LOVE times 1o.

1. everything

2. skin

3. the beatles/ magic

4. paperbacks and hardcovers

5. dreamers

6. kissing

7. sentimentality/nostalgia

8. television

9. trees/garden/green

10. water

ten things i hate

1. television

2. sickness

3. guilt/regret

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

I once read this list somewhere on the interweb, and I found it so beautiful, I copy and pasted it into a blank document and left it there. I came across it again this morning, and I thought it so lovely it had to be shared! (PS. I’m sorry I hadn’t put down where I’d found it… If this is yours, let me know and I’ll credit you! You have really wonderful taste in words.) Without further ado, here is List # 10, or Words “I” like to Say.

Words I like to Say

• shoelace
• delicatessen
• cellar door
• pâtisserie
• splendid
• iridescent

And here are a few more I found rendered upon a simple googling of “the most beautiful words”. Part 2 of List # 10.

Ailurophile

A cat-lover.

AHEM! Miss Swinton!

Becoming

Attractive.

I love this one. Always makes me think of how my future British husband will refer to me. “Yes well, when we met she was wearing this ludicrous orange poncho which was actually most becoming if you can believe it or not.” Le sigh!

Brood

To think alone.

Chatoyant

Like a cat’s eye.

Diaphanous

Filmy.

Dulcet

Sweet, sugary.

This one always makes me think of this line delivered from the Weasley Twins “Hello, Harry, we thought we heard your dulcet tones”

Ebullience

Bubbling enthusiasm.

Effervescent

Bubbly.

Elision

Dropping a sound or syllable in a word.

Good word! As my parents oft exclaim mid Scrabble game.

Elixir

A good potion.

Again, I think of Harry Potter. Thank you to JK Rowling for at once illuminating my childhood, and expanding my vocabulary..

Eloquence

Beauty and persuasion in speech.

(AKA, Barack Obama)

Ephemeral

Short-lived.

Fetching

Pretty.

Reminds me of retching… Rather opposite in meaning haha

Fugacious

Fleeting. 

Not too sure about Fugacious. I do like fleeting though, so it stays :)

Gambol

To skip or leap about joyfully.

Gossamer

The finest piece of thread, a spider’s silk

Oh, Emily Dickison, you will always have my heart.

Halcyon

Happy, sunny, care-free.

Lovely meaning, don’t you think?

Incipient

Beginning, in an early stage.

Made me think of Insipid, which also a nice word

Ineffable

Unutterable, inexpressible.

Ingénue

A naïve young woman.

Hmph..

Languor

Listlessness, inactivity.

Oh!

Lassitude

Weariness, listlessness.

These past two will definitely be used in soon journal entries! Days on the Gulf Islands..

Lilt

To move musically or lively.

Lithe

Slender and flexible.

Love

Deep affection.

Nemesis

An unconquerable archenemy.

Offing

The sea between the horizon and the offshore.

Penumbra

A half-shadow.

Mmm.

Petrichor

The smell of earth after rain.

!!! I didn’t know this word existed! How perfect! I’ll have to trade it in on my list of favourite smells.

Quintessential

Most essential.

This word seems to constantly be stuck in my head!

Redolent

Fragrant.

Serendipity

Finding something nice while looking for something else.

I don’t like this one, but that’s most likely because of my automatic association to that dreadful movie..

Summery

Light, delicate or warm and sunny.

!

Surreptitious

Secretive, sneaky.

My Dad looooves to slip this word in, usually as adverb(!) whenever he can.

Wherewithal

The means.

Woebegone

Sorrowful, downcast

So. I was having this perfectly lovely evening, just day dreaming and lolling around in my bed, when suddenly my facebook starts freaking out with notifications up the wazoo. And to my terror, there are literally, billions of photos being tagged of me. Ultimate nightmare for any sane, and therefore wildly insecure, teenaged girl. 

So as to take my mind off this mini-trauma, I am making a list of all the things I love in the world. Currently. Because I am just emerging from something of a sad streak, and I seem to have this new found love affair, avec le monde entier.

1. Greece
2. Camembert
3. Red Wine
4. Leonard Cohen
5. Orange Juice
6. Blush
7. Red Lips
8. Books books books
9. Velvet, lace, chiffon
10. Lemon and Lavendar
11. Morroco
12. Diane Keaton
13. Figs. Fruit of the Heavens, Food of The Gods.
14. Hardwood Floors
15. Sun-light
16. Sun
17. Summer
18. Green
19. Colour
20. Colour!
21. Cat eye Sunnies
22. Turkey
23. Portugal
24. Sea salt Chocolate
25. Sea salt
26. Chocolate. Dark.
27. Clean Sheets
28. Vespas
29. The New York Times
30. Eggs
31. Raspberry. The colour, and the fruit.
32. Salmon, the colour and the fish. For eating, and admiring.
33. Fancy cameras
34. Old Cameras
35. Ceramics
36. Beaches beaches beaches beaches, splashy waters of the Mediterranean Sea.
37. Peaches
38. Clouds
39. Vineyards
40. Turquoise
41. Tortoises
42. Bikinis
43. Birkin

Good evening ladies of lightness.

I am in dire need of your help… If you happen to like the musical stylings of ANY of the following, maybe you could be so kind as to let me know of any other wonderful bands/artists?

1. Leonard Cohen
2. Bobby D.
3. The Radio Dept.
4. The Smiths
5. Belle & Sebastien
6. Volcano Choir
7. Joy Division
8. Perfume Genius
9. Said The Whale
10. Starslinger
11. Ratatat
12. Mother Mother
13. Band of Horses
14. The Kooks
15. Arcade Fire
16. Feist
17. Gold Panda
18. Beach House
19. Little Dragon
20. Youth Lagoon
21. Bon Iver
22. Beirut
23. Sufjan Stevens
24. Fleet Foxes
25. Die Antwoord
26. Girls
27. Tyler The Creator
28.  Childish Gambino
29. The Zolas
30. Ducktails
31. Coeur De Pirate
32. Wavves
33. Johnny Flynn
34. Lily Allen
35. Kate Nash
36. Ellie Goulding
37. Taken by Trees
38. Postal Service
39. Death Cab for Cutie
40. Metric
41. The Beatles
42. Beyonce
43. Dolly Parton 
44. Anything off the Marie Antoinette Soundtrack

Or even if you don’t like/know any of those, but you figure yourself to have good taste in music and are in a helpful mood, let me know.

Prettiest of all pleases.

(And also, this counts as List # 8. For the numerating and listing of bands)

Just had a major, genius breakthrough. Here is some General Life Mapping for your personal enjoyment. Personally I love hearing about other people’s life plans, and I always assume other people do too.. Just like I still assume people are equally enthralled by hearing about my dreams, because I looove hearing people’s dreams. Like, what does that shit mean?! So interesting! Anyways. Here’s List # 7, if not for your enjoyment, then for my sanity.

1. Apply to AA
2. Get hired!
3. Part time! 
4. Switch to part time at Zara
5. Go half n’ half for a couple months.
6. Ask both stores about transferring to Montreal Stores.
7. Both think this is a GENIUS idea.
8. Continue both jobs in Montreal
9. AND BE WITH MY FRIENDZ!!!
10. YAAAYYYYYY!!!!

I’m so, so, so excited. Because I’m all hyped up on all this manifestation idea, but had nowhere to apply in my life because I had no clue what I wanted to do. Now I DO!! Now I have a plan to put into action! YAY! OMG, YAY!