10.19 // crunch time

Today was a rather interesting day. It involved too small heels, too much subway, too much mundane talk, too much coach-to-runner drama, and too many donuts (two).
Spent the majority of the day – actually, I should calculate that to see if it’s true, but I’m too tired, so nope – in Lansing for some student [...]

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6.22 // On cultural revolution and the wars (and thermite)

[Started this post about a month ago and never got around to finishing it off, so with all my free time I've finally done it. Social activism stuff after the thermite. Oh, I'm not sure, but some stuff may be outdated by now... I don't know. Let me know.]
Such a good day. School – who [...]

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6.14 // stranded on a boat 10 feet from the dock

So I finally broke out of my shell of sickness and ventured outdoors today… not good for my sinuses (I’m over the achy/fever/flu bit and on to a terrible cold), but good for my mental health (and complexion, of course, though I’m still not quite as alive-looking as usual). Walked around, took crappy overexposed photos, [...]

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6.11 // magazine orderliness

Just wondering: do you keep track of your magazines? Sort them? Put post-its on all your favourite spreads and articles? Colour-sort the stickies?
Or is it just me?
~ r

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5.26 // under the weather, as it were…

*SnEEZE*
Yup, it’s that time of year. Again, apparently. Today was a near-perfect day: hovering around 70 degrees, alternating between overcast and sunny, just a touch of humidity. Blue sky, singing birds… and one glum, moody, melancholy, tired  exhausted, mopey teenage girl for whom this mood is not that often occuring and is usually related to [...]

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5.22 // Let me take a little more off your mind…

Another thing about trends…
You can describe someone as “trendy,” meaning that they know and wear all the latest trends, but that does not necessarily mean they have great personal style. Trends, really, do the opposite of what you’d like them to do: if you wear them and so does everyone else, it just makes you [...]

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How Fashion Is Like The Stock Market

In the fashion industry, trends are sort of like stock: you see them in the shows, and if you think – for example – fringe is going to be big, you give that designer raving reviews and then rush to the store to snap up the best, chicest fringed pieces you can find. Pretty soon, [...]

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5.4 // My hair has yet to dry…

Hey y’all, je suis retournee! Ouais ouais, j’ai retourne a ma ville hier et… oh je give up. Haha. I got back lateish yesterday, but stayed up till about 12:30 typing up my notes I took from my grandfather’s stories about the coal mines and being in the Navy… cool stuff. A quote:
“Back in those [...]

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4.14 // And how was your day?

“Style isn’t what but how you wear clothes. Fashion is the way you walk, talk, dance and prance.” – first issue of i-D (here)

“While we’re both geeks, Adam is Twittering everyday, and it’ll be a cold day in hell when you see me Twittering anything.” – Jamie, discussing their [Adam & Jamie's] geekiest qualities (here)
“Choosing [...]

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4.14 // Socks and rain

I was a curious little person: up until about 5th grade, I simply refused to wear jeans – they were too “boyish” – so my uniform was leggings and a (more often than not, mismatched, as I picked out my own clothes) tunic of sorts. Then I went through a very anti-sock phase; I hated [...]

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