Memoriesssss

(credits to Lianne for the gorgeous artwork...)

When I left DC last year I was so ready to get out. DC felt so small and I was sick of a lot of non-tangible things. But now I'm thinking about all the wonderful things in DC, mostly the three wonderful girls I shared Ivory 306 with. It was just nice having people around who I really really liked and who I knew liked me. This isn't going to turn into one of those long rants about how I have no friends here, because I do, but my friendships in DC were generally a lot more established. Friendships that might include squabbles, but the sort of squabbles that exist when you know people pretty well.

So here is a list of things I miss about my friends last year:

-Having people to eat dinner with or around all the time

-Having friends nearby, who I could easily plan adventures with

-Having friends who I am sure really really liked me

-Reading magazines at Barnes/Borders with Lianne

-Watching tv with my roommates

-Having a friend as hip, cool and nice as Sara D

- Knowing that if I didn't go out, I would still have lots of people to hang out with the next day

-Having people I could really really laugh with because we know each other so well

- Going to lunch with Mike and having him judge me as my food ended up all over my clothes

-Holding Sara Z and Jenny and laying in their beds

-Doing cool cultural things involving Tom Story with Lianne

-IHOP with people I love

- Being around people who I essential spent my truly formative years with

-and so on and so on

The thing I miss about DC the most is having a city to explore that is manageable in size and easy to navigate. London is soo big!

I honestly don't know what my friendships here will turn into. Mehhhh. And I don't know where I want to go, what I want to do when I graduate. Mehhhhh.

Reason I am Single #7: I adapt Taylor Swift songs in my head to fit guys I think are attractive.

The next Oscar winners have pretty much been decided

They should just give Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon, and This Movie the appropriate academy awards because it has "Oscar" written all over it. I think I sobbed through the whole trailer. But that could just be because I'm emotional. But seriously, this film looks amazing.

Interesting Link of the Morning

I read this article and I was previously guilty of believing each thing. I learned some things before 9am yey!

Spotify

Today Twitter's worth was revealed to my when Graham Linehan (writer of Father Ted and The IT Crowd) decided to set up a twitter feed where people who had Spotify invites to spare could find people who needed one. To back up Spotify is an amazing music service that isn't available in America, it's essentially a free itunes. You can play thousands and thousands of albums on your computer and create playlists. I can't download the songs onto my ipod, but it's going to be amazing for finding new music and listening to it during the many hours I spend at my computer. But anyways, a kind soul who had a premium spotify account gave me on of their invites so I can get a basic account (meaning there are commercials)! I'm instantly obsessed with it. So, thank you Graham Lineham for being so wonderful to suggest a code exchange! YEY!

Autumn Sun

Today has been a disgustingly unproductive day. But I guess I still have time. It feels a lot later than it is. This is what the sun looks like now. It's slowly starting to set and it's not even 3pm. Oh England...

I've decided the next fiction book I'm going to read is Mrs. Dalloway. And in honor of Viginia Woolf, I present you with this magnificent quote from To the Lighthouse:

"The great revalation had never come. The great revalations perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark."

Songs I love

Two years ago during my first time being an expat in England my darling friend Sharif played Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights for me. I was like wtf is this, is this real? I then later on told my friend Dave, a fan of pretty obscure music and he had me listen to Kate's songs Cloudbusting and Hounds of Love (sorry if I'm getting this story wrong... I credit both Sharif and Dave with introducing me to Kate). My life changed. Hearing Kate Bush was like a gigantic musical hole being filled in my life. She's amazing and honestly in my mind the greatest female artist probably ever. Her songs are creative, well written with depth and her voice is amazing. Also she wrote a song about Joyce's Ulysses (The Sensual World). Here are my two fav Kate Bush songs (both, with amazing music videos), I hope you love them as much as I do: