May 2013
4 posts
happy spring
Cara Bars (Cara Tweed’s homemade granola bars) brunch hollandaise sauce bread before meals slide guitar team cheers Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison Whole Foods trying a new place for dinner daffodils the chlorine smell at pools/rec centres how things typed in capslock are somehow funnier “You think you can’t like ___ anymore and, yet here we are!” stop written as “stahp” cartwhees hazelnut...
April 2013
38 posts
I Need My Girl - The National →
Yessss. Too good. I am stoked for this new album! <3
(Because it’s NBC, I can’t link directly to the video in Tumblr…I can in MySpace, though, so maybe I’ll just head over there because MySpace is almost as cool, RIGHT GUYS!?)
All I want is coffee and my bed. That seems a little ironic now that I think about it. I’d really just like to be finished exams.
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*Daniel plays his favourite Tracy Chapman song*
Tamara: “Okay, no, Daniel, you’re done.”
Daniel: “But, guys, this is a song of real significance! She’s singing about domestic abuse.”
Tamara: “That is not something I need to deal with on a Saturday night when I am BAKING!”
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things I love about my home in Vancouver
- my glorious view of the city from my bedroom - a 15 minute walk to the beach - bussing = cheaper than driving - how many musical housemates I have (currently: somebody is playing piano in the chapel, and somebody else is playing guitar in my hallway, and Thomas and Nicole are always singing and there’s always music somewhere) - the free board (this morning there was a large bag of whole...
Man oh man oh man I’m excited for Ecuador. I was just talking to Reuben about how I get excited to be excited. I’ve been trying to suppress my delight because I have 4 exams to get through, but THEN I get to do so many new things and grow with all of my lovely team mates and volunteer with some amazing families that I’m excited to meet. Woooeeeoooeeooo!
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maybe someday I’ll routinely go to bed before 1am. Tamara says that it’ll hit me by 25. yolo.
Vampire Weekend’s I Think Ur A Contra has 41 plays on my iTunes. This means that I’ve spent over 3 hours of my life listening to that song. #noregretz
April 4th
I wrote this on the bus this morning. Haven’t edited it and don’t plan to because I like my raw excitement.
“And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.” - Kurt Vonnegut This is my favourite quote and is very representative of my life lately. I adore...
March 2013
21 posts
you, me & the bourgeoisie
Love can free us from all excess From our deepest debt ‘Cause when our hearts are full we need much less
To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one...
– Woody Allen
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Springtime Joy
advent calendars sourdough bread riding the skytrain and the sound it makes feeling excited over-ear headphones The Earl of Lemongrab (Adventure Time, TV show) paper flowers flannel bed sheets a big bed to sprawl out in chicken pot pie encouragement movies that make you think that travelling home always seems to go faster than leaving practicing different lettering/penmanship “You have your...
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I don’t love studying, I hate studying. I like learning, Learning is beautiful.
– Natalie Portman