today I watched an episode of Monster Machines where they showed how they make the escalators for Tube stations and Heathrow, and I cried.
It’s good to be home, but God do I miss London
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today I watched an episode of Monster Machines where they showed how they make the escalators for Tube stations and Heathrow, and I cried.
It’s good to be home, but God do I miss London
you’ll be happy to know that my relationship with whisky is going strong. We appreciate and respect each other and each think the other is delicious although that might be one sided
Atlas Obscura visits the Norte Dame Basilica in Montreal (at Basilique Notre-Dame)
Story time! When I was 11, my parents’ choir toured Montreal and Quebec, and sang at this Cathedral. I went along because the choir is my family (where my parents met, the first people at the hospital when I was born, etc) and they had, as part of their set, Morten Lauridsen’s O Magnum Mysterium (if you’ve never heard it… listen to it. Even if you hate choral music.) I remember falling asleep to the song on one of the pews during an afternoon rehearsal, the glow from behind the altar filtering in. To this day, that is the happiest, safest, warmest moment I can remember.
Age: 20
Where I’m from: Maryland, USA
Where I would like to live: Anywhere with a stable government and infrastructure
Favourite food: egg, bacon, and cheese burger
Religion: agnostic/ functionally Episcopalian
Sexual orientation: never been in love or indeed ever met someone I wanted to be in a relationship with. So I dunno.
Single/taken: single
Favourite book: Oh God… Candide? Embassytown? Paper Towns?
Eye colour: Green-grey-blue
Favourite movie: Charlie Bartlett
Favourite TV show: Sherlock
Favourite band/singer: at this very moment, the Mynabirds
Random fact about me: I have a birthmark shaped like Australia on my leg
Favorite day of the year: the Thursday before Christmas. It’s a long story.
Favourite colour: purple
If I have any pets; if so, their names: one mutt, Patches. She’s 10 and ages like Robert Downey Jr.
What I’m listening to right now: my roommate in the bathroom. I think he’s shaving. But on a more musical note, the last song I listened to was ”Body of Work” by the Mynabirds
Last movie I’ve watched: Hugo
What’s my ringtone: now it’s a factory setting because I got a crap phone for study abroad, but on my good phone it’s an 8-bit version of the Sherlock theme
Favourite male character from a TV show: Freddie Lyon (The Hour)
Favourite female character from a TV show: Lix Storm (The Hour) the hour just has really good characters ok
What my name means: no joke, it means “not crazy”
Favourite superhero: Ant Man
Celebrity crush: Benedict Cumberbatch, Eddie Redmayne, Brian Cox, Loo Brealey
GUESS WHO HAS TWO THUMBS AND GOT A 95 ON HER PEACE AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION FINAL ESSAY?
not me.
But I did get a 97 instead,
so
this is approximately how I feel right now.
Side note: got a 100% on my International Development essay- the one about TB in Haiti aww yisss
One more day of classes and if I don’t die all will be golden someone hold me.
The accidental theme for today was What Would John Green Do?
Went to classes- International Organizations and Intro to Peace and Conflict Resolution, classes based upon the ability to imagine the Other complexly (unless you’re a Realist YES YOU MACHIAVELLI)
And then I supported my friendly neighborhood independent bookstore (Politics and Prose) by purchasing a copy of The Catcher in the Rye which I am extremely exited to read. AND I was there in the first place to help my roommate drop off copies of our university’s literary magazine, an encouragement of literary expression if I ever saw one.
I feel sort of obligated to order pizza now. Mmmmm…
as a Christian, I have this little battle with myself after every Thanksgiving, because
1.) Call me bigoted or biased or whatever, but if you don’t go to church at Christmas and if you think that the true meaning of Christmas is family and giving and NOT a celebration of the birth of Jesus, we’re not celebrating the same holiday. I won’t stop you from celebrating, and I think your holiday is great. But we’re not celebrating the same holiday. The two holidays just happen to be called the same thing and happen on the same day. So… yeah… that causes some consternation
2.) I feel kinda weird putting up christmas stuff before Advent…
