My apologies

I like to tell myself that my personal life philosophy is simple...I tell myself that I must always love others and that I must try to stay appreciative of my blessings. The sad truth is that I never seem to act on what I pretend are my principles. Theoretically, I believe in it with all my heart, but realistically, my selfishness always gets in the way of how I want to behave. I pursue what I want without considering how my actions might affect other people… I hold other people to a standard that I myself can never match up to… I make selfish demands for love and friendship that I don’t necessarily deserve.

I think that I am happy most of the time. And really, it doesn’t take a lot to make me happy. Sometimes my happiest moments are based on really trivial things, like finding out the best way to organize my socks/underwear drawer, or having someone rush by on their way to class, only to stop for a little hug, or making doodles of anthropomorphic animals having adventures in the margins of my terrible class notes. My mom always said that I was good at entertaining myself, and I am.

I wish I could be more mature.

It’s not as if guilt just springs out of nowhere…there must be something you did that made a part of you cry out in dissent. Maybe you muted that voice then, and covered it up in excuses and frivolity to try to forget, but it has a way of resurfacing from time to time. Sometimes I have mornings when I wake up a bit too early, and look out the window to find a grey, silent sky… and resting my fingertips on the cold glass, I suddenly get the sense of a drop of rain hitting a well hidden somewhere inside myself.

Macarons

Do you remember the movie Marie Antoinette? It was unremarkable save for two points: 1) it proved that Sofia Coppola should stop making subpar movies and stick to designing even more subpar handbags for Louis Vuitton and 2) it provided tons of Laduree eye candy.

If you chose not to go see it in theatres and wisely spent two hours of your life doing something else, here is a quick recap in photos!

Kirsten Dunst lounges around licking whipped cream off her fingers as her maids tend to her grooming needs.

Marie Antoinette goes under the guillotine and unfortunately gets her head cut off. :(

And then for all the nice lovely, frilly things in between!

She eats more pastries!

. Did you know that Laduree actually provided all of the gorgeous pastries featured in this movie?





Ah macarons...how I long for you! Now that I'm subsisting on cold sandwiches, I feel like I've grown more appreciative of good food...sort of like how prisoners on death row fantasize about their last meal, not that being at school is anything like being on death row.

:(

I haven't been able to upload any photos since I lost the usb cord for my nikon, which is partially why this blog has been so devoid of new posts as of late. Another reason is that I haven't been fooding as much...or fooding with my camera.

:(

I made a realization recently about something that we lack here at georgetown. No, it's not diversity (lol). Have you realized that we don't have any doughnut shops around here? There's a dean & deluca for satisfying random pastry cravings, as well as Le Pain Quotidien for other breads, and of course, Georgetown Cupcake for cupcakes, but no doughnut shop! This is preposterous!

Since I don't have any nice food pictures to show you, here are some random pictures of cute things instead!









And of course...here are some of Knut the cuddly polar bear cub, who isn't so cuddly and little anymore.