Well, I certainly have been on an unintentional blogging hiatus, but it’s been a fairly uneventful holiday break. At least not full of events that most would be interested in reading.
I started the holiday off with a trip to A’s cottage where we just relaxed and read. I read The Great Gatsby, which unfortunately disappointed me a little. I didn’t dislike it, I just didn’t really understand all the hype to be honest. Though it did somehow make me want to go out and buy a flapper dress and attend some swanky party full of rich and famous people falling over themselves drunk. I think the moral of the story is that’s not the way to live, but despite the end results, books such as these always make me even more convinced that that lifestyle is still glamourous.
Then I got my wisdom teeth out, which is neither an interesting nor fun story, so I shall skip, except to say that my jaw still hurts two weeks later, which is somewhat irritating.
New Year's Eve
Then Christmas, of course. I spent Christmas Eve with A’s family up at his cottage and ate a great deal of food. I love taken pictures of food and I should have taken pictures of it all, but I his family would probably think I was somewhat deranged. Christmas Day was with my family, and the next day (my birthday) was spend with A, my sister, her boyfriend and my parents, eating sushi, drinking champagne and playing board games.
Time for friends finally rolled around on New Year’s Eve. I bought a new pair of shoes that I am in love with. I think we all looked pretty good (to your left).
I can’t find my glasses though, which is upsetting. I have contacted the host of our NYE in hopes that they are there, but alas, have not heard from him.
Tomorrow school begins again, which means less time for leisure, which certainly is unfortunate. I hope I enjoy my classes and don’t stress out too much. Though the main thing on my mind is grad school applications, the first of which I have to send out this week. Preferably Thursday, if I get my transcripts on time. Dear, this is all morbidly boring.
Zink Canada with another new obsession; diet gingerale and lime (and my new leopard print glasses from Mother Dearest!)
I mentioned before my goal to expose myself to new, alternative magazines. I
think I have found one that I will likely subscribe to, called Zink. I picked up Zink Canada, actually, which is nice because their are few Canadian-focused fashion magazines, it seems. Though I’m not really sure if there’s much of a difference between the Canadian and US versions, it does mean lower subscription fees which are fine by me. Anyway, it has articles on a variety of things, but mainly focuses on fashion. I especially like it because there’s pages and pages of just good solid fashion spreads with no ads in between or text even. Just wonderful pictures to look at. I didn’t want to bother scanning but I took photos of a few I especially liked (so pleas excuse the blotched of flash-induced light and the occasional glimpse of poorly groomed fingernails):
photographed by Mike Rosenthal
photographed by Mike Rosenthal
photographed by Rasmus Morgensen
photographed by Martin Tremblay
photographed by Jamie Nelson
photographed by Jamie Nelson
(the shoes!!)
photographed by Chris Haylett
photographed by Anouk Lessard
photographed by Byron Mollinedo
photographed by Bryon Mollinedo
photographed by Chloe Crespi
photographed by Hama Sanders
photographed by John Londono
Well, now I should probably go shower and head to bed to be well rested for my first day of school tomorrow. Hopefully in the future I’ll be able to come up with some more interested posts than this. I’m a little brain dead right now, though the prospects for that getting any better during the semester do not look good.
(Also, since I have been out of commission for a while, Christoph did not have his trusty – or not-so-trusty – typist. But now that I am back on the blogosphere scene, Christoph has updated too!)
