11.30 // NaNoWriMo

…and it’s over! (Although I did finish a few days ago, technically, my novel is nowhere near finished. At the moment, it’s just over 100 pages/about 58,000 words… I’m thinking it’ll be over 400 pages by the end… hopefully…)

And the manuscript (a few days ago, at just over 80 pages):

…and now I’m getting sick and haven’t run since last Wednesday (or done abs or weights… hmmm….) Ciao!

~ r

11.25 // backstage & cast party photos

So Saturday was one of the cast parties for after the second-to-last show of Midsummer Night’s Dream… I was invited to crash…

His makeup was sooo sweet!

My little brother as a (very Monty Python-esque) woman for the play-within-a-play (Pyramis and Thisbe). Word on the street is that he totally stole the show… which he did. (He seems to have inherited my knack for walking – well, shuffling, for him, because they were four sizes too small – in heels).

Me, hard at work… and muffins in the makeup room!

My friend Z’s Obama pose.

And J’s Palin  

Bonfire time!

So there you have it. (I left out the smashing-and-burning-an-old-wooden-Grease-car-from-six-years-ago-in-a-very-cultlike-manner-at-eleven-at-night-until-the-neighbors-complained-about-the-noise photos. They aren’t very good.)

~ r

11.25 // life with cookies

An interesting point came up a few days ago (while I was complaining about my skin, which tends to get red and shiny after a while, to my despair. Even if I wear concealer, which I usually don’t do). That point was that my friends K and K both came to the conclusion that I was a girly-girl, which I really don’t think I am. To me, wearing heels daily does not a girly-girl make, per se. Certainly not in my personality (it’s my belief that anyone who runs XC is incapable of being a full-blown girly girl). But if I give that image and people have that perception of me, that makes me, in essence, a girly girl. Hmm.

Also feeling the annoyingness of small-town living. Browsing through my fabulous cousin’s photos from her jaunt to Paris (from Barcelona, where she’s been liking for what, a year now?) makes me want to get the hell out of here. To me, nothing can be accomplished here. I’m focusing less on school (well, I still have straight A’s, but that’s more habit than effort.)(Pardon me if I sound snobbish) and working more on my writing and drawing and photography, the things that actually matter to me and will be vital in my future life. If everything works out, that is. Sorry, but knowing the quantum sublevels of the atoms won’t help me if I’m writing a novel or shooting sweeping landscapes (or amazing spreads) or… anything interesting to me. So… yeah.

The world awaits, perched upon a distant rolling hill
its spires circling high and piercing the sky
The future pulls me, hooking into my skin and drawing me
ever forward.
The clear sky yearns, the iridescent oceans of opportunity call
tides pleasantly beating against the shore, my toes

…unfinished.

I made cookies from scratch for the first time yesterday… and there was a dead squirrel in the road, which I took a few pictures of (and I’m pretty sure my neighbors noticed, and wondered).

burnt? not at all…

My family is celebrating my little brother’s birthday today (instead of tomorrow, his actual birthday, which we’ll be spending in a car on the way to PA for Thanksgiving)(we drive out on the day to avoid traffic), so that means cake! Which means I should run… mrrrggg…

Happy Thanksgiving all  :)

~ r

11.19 // Daul Kim

What can be said about Daul Kim? An amazing young model with a fantastic career and equally promising future…

Why suicide? Why? The pressure? Demands? Daul Kim’s last post (11/18) was titled ’say hi to forever’.

…

RIP.

~ r

11.19 // amazing cousin

So I jumped onto facebook – as it happens – and saw one of my cousin’s statuses (stati?) and did a silent scream, as this is what it said:

“…shopped Gucci and chatted with Garance Dore and Scott Schuman. My life is complete.”

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

My cousin is fabulous  :)

~ r

11.17 // mmm, fall [also titled: absentee apology]

Yes, I’m terrible. I haven’t posted on here in ages. Not even random street shots that I like. Shame on me!

outfit du jour…

dress – ON
top – deb
socks – target
shoes – gojane
faux fur – h&m
hat – F21
rings, necklace – vint

And a few photos from XC States on the 7th… (guys, 3rd; girls, 5th)

See the rest on my flickr…

So yeah. Hopefully I’ll get back into the swing of things, but life/running/NaNaWriMo (I’m at 32,740 words!)  are taking soooo much time…

~ r

11.13 // Socialist plots through the ages

Ha ha ha ha ha ha haaa….

(Haven’t posted in days, sorry… I meant to do a veteran’s day thing, I’ll do that later… between running, school, and NaNoWriMo – I have over 20,000 words now! - I have virtually no time.)

~ r

11.06 // street style

Just a quick fix for some street shots I’ve seen lately… short post, as I didn’t write yesterday and have to make up for it (which means I’m writing at least 3400 words today… which means I need to start… now).

sart

stylesightings

this time tomorrow

clothes horse. Love that skirt – I’ve been kicking myself for months for not getting it  :\

stylish wanderer.

I am so, so, so tired. Going to bed no earlier than 11:30 for a week straight is not strictly beneficial… in any way… especially when you spend it looking at style blogs instead of studying for the chem test you definitely did not ace on Friday, second hour…  :(

Bon weekend!

~ r

Model profile: Nastya Karzan

Marylin NY & Paris. Has booked Givenchy and Chanel. 5′11″, Russian, striking.

~ r

planet aewsome kid: street style for the six and unders

Am I the only one who looks at these kinds of kids and thinks, Crap, what was I doing when I was four??? Why wasn’t I this fabulous?

planet awesome kid.

~ r