fooding fooding fooding

i am going to regret putting that dyed scarf into my laundry. the colours ran rampant last time i washed it, but oh well; i really wanted to get that chocolate shit off. on a happier note, wednesday afternoon is an excellent time to do laundry!

but hey guys! how is everyone? i've finally started classes, and i LOVE them. had institutional critique (with my favourite professor!) and then postmodernism with another awesome professor yesterday; loved them both, cannot wait to start reading for them. then this morning, went to my michel foucault & the arts seminar, and the syllabus looks amazing for that as well (the reader cost $57 and weighs approximately as much as a small child, but it's got all the readings we need, so major ups to that). i'm also getting a really good vibe from the professor who, by the way, comes off as a cross between jeffrey tambor and louis black. awesome. he seems engaging enough and, though he rambles quite a bit (and i mean what did i expect, it's an entire course about foucault for fuck's sake), i feel as though he'll be able to keep our focus and heighten our understanding of the course material. one can only hope.

what are you all taking!?

side note: if you haven't already, you all should check out the Classico® brand vodka sauce. i find it deeeeelicious -- so creamy, but just the right consistency so as not to smother my pasta or coat my throat and make me want to vomit. i think i'm going to make grilled chicken penne alla vodka tomorrow. i would do it today, but i'd forgotten to buy pasta (aka i kind of want to wait for my mom to buy it for me at national wholesale, where it's cheaper, and then bring it to me at school when she comes around to fetch some stuff to bring home wow nobody really needs to hear about this, ugh). and SPEAKING of food, i went food shopping earlier and my basket was so heavy that i got a nosebleed from straightening up to lift it cuz i kept putting it on the ground. idunno, it was kind of embarrassing, but it also cleared my nasal passages, so...silver lining! but yeah, i must start exercising. i need more energy, and my hamstrings/everything else are really tight. i wish i could take pilates for dancers, cuz that really strengthened my back.

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um, back to food: what are some other things i could make for dinner? i've lately fallen into a pattern of pita-hummus-baby spinach and/or premade mixed salad. of course, tuna out of the can is always a nice thing to throw in there. i've bought chicken breast to grill on the foreman (heh), but umm that's still not too much to work with. someone suggested zucchini and squash; i say too much work. cereal and milk or flatbread and yogurt are my fallback meals at all times. ugh, i'm so lazy.

count the headlights on the highway

5 favourite movie moments (currently):

1. busride singalong (almost famous)

2. when time slows and camera holds its gaze on gwyneth paltrow after she gets off the bus, and then the music starts (the royal tenenbaums)

3. hugh grant saying "ooo can we call her chubby?" in that really high-pitched voice (love actually)

4. anytime emma thompson appears in the frame (stranger than fiction)

5. tie between juno saying "ah FUCKITTY fuck" and "WHOA dream big!" (um, duh)

5 favourite moments in almost famous:

1. elaine miller's (frances mcdormand) reprimanding monologue to russell hammond (billy crudup) over the telephone.

2. close-up of anita miller (zooey deschanel) telling william miller (patrick fugit), "one day...you'll be cool."

3. jeff bebe (jason lee) speaking at length about his theories regarding the dynamics between brain and instincts to william on the tour bus. (extended scene from director's cut)

4. penny lane (kate hudson) dancing amid the debris on the concert hall floor to cat stevens's "the wind."

5. "i miss you, and i love you." -- elaine miller on the phone with william (very emotive moment)

ahh movies. please feel free to share your thoughts and moments as well!

and

i'm having trouble finishing things lately: emails, blog posts, blog comments, conversations, letters, etc. etc. etc.

this won't be finished but i'm just going to hit 'publish post' anyway

you can write but you can't edit. edit. edit. edit. unless you hit the 'edit' button.

any guesses for the title reference? onto more pressing matters, then...

i've found that i've developed a habit of leaving the milk out after i'm done using it (usually for the coffee). i never used to do this. my mother has always strictly reinforced proper kitchen protocol (always putting things back in their spot, closing the fridge door, emptying meal and drink remains before depositing something in the sink, etc. etc.), but i guess a few years of the relaxed and obscenely unsupervised life of an undergrad has rendered me rather lax on such things. it's really kind of bad, too, as sometimes the milk will get left out all day--say, if i'd been coffeeing just before departing for a workday or a morning (or afternoon, as is more often the case) of classes. but again (what? when was the first time...), i've reverted to loosening my deathly fear of expiration dates. adaptability! ;)

but anywho, anybody else do this or other odd things that you didn't used to do? weird how we track (or don't track) the little things that change over time. well, obviously.

also, my sneezes are getting aggressively louder, or louder and more aggressive. sometimes they frighten me. not that that's such a tall order.

Tangerine

Rene and Georgette Magritte with their dog after the war.

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Edit: Mmk, that was for test driving purposes. And to continue this most unfanfared inaugural post, hi you guys! Welcome to Gong Blog II. New blog for a new year (ok, cheesy, i know, but in this case, also refreshing, and, quite,, apropos,,,,,,,,,). I've found that my first (ever!) blog had grown entirely too whiny and nauseatingly introspective for my liking; some of you of the old blogging circle might argue that such had always been the case. Whatever the verdict, I decided to start afresh and anew;skdfhablsdhfwawc yeah ok ok we GET it moving on...

...well actually, I didn't really have much more to say. I hope to produce something of substance on a semi-regular basis for your collective enjoyment, O Faithful Readership. I was well on my way to working up a proper worry storm over the impending content quality versus presentation, etc. etc. buuuut that's just silly. Ok I lied, I'd already brewed a pretty hefty dose of anxiety, but that's over and done with. Discussion is always welcome; I like that Blogger comments are now popoutable. Let me know if you would like to be linked and/or if you find a noteworthy blog that I might like and add to my links. Ew, I feel like I'm giving an orientation to a newbie at a small e-commerce firm. ...Firm? Words confuse me.

K BYE