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I just finished watching the Olympic Opening Ceremonies. As cheesy as they always are, I kind of enjoyed them. Some bits were pretty bad, like Furtado and Adams and the part with the girl flying on the prairies, not the mention the Olympic Cauldron not working. I enjoyed the East Coast portion with the Ashley MacIsaac as the Devil in a flying canoe ( Read more... ) -
The Ethics of Vintage Styling
There has been some interesting posts popping up on the fashion blogosphere lately, examining the ethics of vintage fashion (see Gertie's New Blog for Better Sewing and the Renegade Bean as a starter). In particular, they've been concerned with the ethics of wearing vintage clothes from eras such as the 40's and 50's where women and minorities were ( Read more... ) -
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Oh no, nononono no. Disney has decided that their next handdrawn fairy tale is The Snow Queen. I love that fairy tale. I love that it's weird and dreamlike and full of morally ambiguous powerful women. I love that in many versions, the Snow Queen isn't really evil, nor is anyone really, they're just lonely and reaching out to people. If they make ( Read more... ) -
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My birthday ended up pretty fun. I hung out and read at a coffee shop for a while (would have been nicer if some annoying guy hadn't insisted on asking kind of personal questions than rambling on for 10 minutes about some legal issues he's having with his retaining pond), then the boyfriend took me out for dinner. And then watched Mad Men which ( Read more... ) -
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Ahh, I've been busy lately. I finished editing my thesis down and actually got it to 100 pages! I think I'm losing some stuff that I'd rather have in there, because I think it adds to the thesis, but given the limit I think it ended up not too bad! My supervisor gave me his comments on the first chapter. It looks like he's not taking the 100 page ( Read more... ) -
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Kraken Rum! That is so awesome. I'm just pissed off that they don't ship their free posters to Canada. Boo! -
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Things are looking up :D. My supervisor thinks defending this semester is still a possibility (I don't, but it's nice that he's optimistic). The edits are going really fast, too. Today I finished all the general edits/changes my committee member wanted, so now it's just cutting 80 pages out of my thesis. I'm not sure it'll work, but I'm willing to ( Read more... ) -
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I bought my early birthday gift from my mom today! She had told me she wanted me to invest in a nice, well-made leather purse. I ended up going to etsy because I always see interesting purses there. It turns out two I liked best were on sale so my mom bought me both!
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I talked with my parents this weekend, and they want to sell the condo (I don't know if I've talked about this on here before: my parents and I jointly own the condo. They paid the downpayment, I'm taking care of the mortgage payments). And they want to start soon. Since my boyfriend and I are kind of messy people and we have a lot of stuff, I don' ( Read more... )