Oops

So it's been a while.....but since I last posted, we celebrated Halloween!! Wahoo!!

Here is our group! We were characters from Batman. Front row: Collin as Commissioner Gordon, Dionthe as Catwoman, Charity as Poison Ivy. Back row: Brent as Batman, Blair as Rachel, John as Two Face, Frank as the Joker, Heather as Harley Quinn. We are definitely such a good looking group :)

And in other news, I'm still not done with my paper, oops!!

x Blair

Wahoo!

Yeah Denver!! 5th smartest city in America!! I'm so proud.

x Blair

...big news...

This might be strange.

Some of you know that I've been trying to decide if I should serve an 18-month mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

(Now here's the strange bit...)

Somehow I found myself watching videos on YouTube of future missionaries opening their calls. Before this massive distraction to my Anthropology paper, I had been struggling with the same doubts.....delay graduation 1 1/2 years?

Grad school? Family? Friends? My whole life behind? Whoa. Lots of big questions.

But as I watched these other sisters, more or less the same age as I, it just kind of hit me. I just knew.

I WANT TO SERVE A MISSION.

Oh my goodness, hip hip hooray!!

So there's my big news.

x Blair

YES! As if I needed more things to stuff in my face.

HARRY POTTER COOKBOOK

And the best Peep Show moment ever.....

x Blair

Ling 450

My professor sometimes says ridiculous things. Today:

"Sometimes linguistics is one of those non-sciences...sometimes it's a religion."

One of my favorite things

Now that it's finally autumn (hooray!!), I can actually drink my tea hot! In the summer it's just too much warmth and I have to let it cool considerably before it's even enjoyable. But in the last couple of weeks with the light rain and cool evenings, I've brought my absolutely darling little tea cup and saucer out from hibernation! Believe it or not, I found this gem for $10 at DI. And I love it so.

To go with my hot cup of tea (peppermint today), here is a lovely poem by Christopher Marlowe: The Passionate Shepherd to his Love.

Come live with me and be my love,

And we will all the pleasures prove

That valleys, groves, hills, and fields,

Woods, or steepy mountain yields.

And we will sit upon rocks,

Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,

By shallow rivers to whose falls

Melodious birds sing madrigals.

And I will make thee beds of roses

And a thousand fragrant poises,

A cap of flowers, and a kirtle

Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle;

A gown made of the finest wool

Which from our pretty lambs we pull;

Fair lined slippers for the cold,

With buckles of the purest gold;

A belt of straw and ivy buds,

With coral clasps and amber studs;

And if these pleasures may thee move,

Come live with me, and be my love.

The shepherds's swains shall dance and sing

For thy delight each May morning:

If these delights thy mind may move,

Then live with me and be my love.

Simply beautiful!

Garance Doré's best video ever. Here it is, Chanel. Though I suppose most things Chanel are the best ever. After the grace here, I have a hard time seeing the appeal of Prada's brightness or Roberto Cavalli's edginess or really anything else. Ah! J'adore.

x Blair