itching to do some drawing.

And in other news, apparently "art design fundamentals" is the academic name for "origami with knives" class.

Things I feel an irrational need for:

• Korean diaries/planners
• portable turntable and records
• a library
• tin lunchboxes
• irrationally bright make up
• a big satin or velvet bow
• party dresses
• a baby grand piano

I'm very jealous of the new edition of certain classics (I've seen Wuthering Heights and Pride and Prejudice in person) with the covers featuring illustrations by a famous artist. It's not so much the artist that impresses me as the art itself. I love books for their content, but I would love to have some books that I loved for their covers too. Hm, I may snazz up some of my old books with new covers.

Oh my goodness, am I actually going to defile a book?!

completing another year.

began January 1, 2009

Goal: read 50 books within one year (2009).

Books:
1. Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami (467 pg)
2. Rascal - Sterling North (189 pg)
3. A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett (249 pg)
4. The Boleyn Inheritance - Philippa Gregory (516 pg)
5. Twilight - Stephanie Meyer (498 pg)
6. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - Haruki Murakami (362 pg)
7. New Moon - Stephanie Meyer (563 pg)
8. Cradle and All - James Patterson (355 pg)
9. Eclipse - Stephanie Meyer (629 pg)
10. Prey - Michael Crichton (364 pg)
11. Airframe - Michael Crichton (352 pg)
12. Congo - Michael Crichton (438 pg)
13. Breaking Dawn - Stephanie Meyer (754 pg)
14. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami (607 pg)
15. Schooled - Anisha Lakhani (344 pg)
16. Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen (331 pg)
17. A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway (314 pg)
18. The Cherokee Trail - Lous L'Amour (221 pg)
19. Class Matters - The New York Times (243 pg)
20. Detective - Arthur Hailey (595 pg)
21. The Epic of Gilgamesh - translated by Maureen Gallery Kovacs (41 pg)
22. The Odyssey - Homer (295 pg)
23. Oedipus the King - Sophocles (48 pg)
24. Lord of the Flies - William Golding (208 pg)
25. The Swiss Family Robinson - Johann Wyss (325 pg)
26. Sex with Kings - Eleanor Herman (255 pg)
27. Robin Hood - Henry Gilbert (288 pg)
28. Marie Antoinette: The Journey - Antonia Fraser (458 pg)
29. Bonita - Kathleen Duey (117 pg)
30. Sierra - Kathleen Duey (114 pg)
31. Call of the Wild - Jack London (67 pg)
32. After Dark - Haruki Murakami (244 pg)
33. Sideways Stories from Wayside School - Louis Sachar (118 pg)
34. Esperanza Rising - Pam Munoz Ryan (262 pg)
35. Brown Sunshine of Sawdust Valley - Marguerite Henry (100 pg)
36. King of the Wind - Marguerite Henry (192 pg)
37. The Westing Game - Ellen Raskin (216 pg)
38. The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams (105 pg)
39. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (1130 pg)

Total # books read:
39 books / 50 books = 78 %
Total # pages read:
12974 pg / 15000 pg = 86.5 %

Manga:
1. Othello vol 1 - Satomi Ikezawa (182 pg)
2. Othello vol 2 - Satomi Ikezawa (182 pg)
3. Othello vol 3 - Satomi Ikezawa (174 pg)
4. Othello vol 4 - Satomi Ikezawa (168 pg)
5. Othello vol 5 - Satomi Ikezawa (168 pg)
6. Othello vol 6 - Satomi Ikezawa (163 pg)
7. Othello vol 7 - Satomi Ikezawa (169 pg)
8. Inuyasha vol 1 - Rumiko Takahashi (182 pg)
9. Inuyasha vol 2 - Rumiko Takahashi (190 pg)
10. Apple - Komi Naoshi (49 pg)
11. Madofuki Park - Murata Yusuke (35 pg)

Total # pages read:
14636 pg / 15000 pg = 97.5 %

Cumulative # books + manga read: 50

ended December 31, 2009

having a stream of conscious in french.

Oui, c'est vrai! Argh. (>__<) Anyway, latest list of shopping loot:

• Urban Decay makeup set from Sephora
• Dior palette (as a gift for B)
• 2 pairs of skinny jeans
• Super cute black dress
• H&M blazer

And yet there are still many things I still want. Ah, but to refrain from indulging in the consumption; of both mind and wallet! I must be very tired if I'm reverting to Romantic English speech patterns. Urk. (x_x);

Intending to spend my week off cleaning up the messy remains of Hurricane Final-Exam-Week and reading, a lot. Still need 13 books for 50bookchallenge this year! Bonne chance!

contemplating bankruptcy.

Impulsive buying of pretty things = not good for bank account. But they were really, really pretty. Piggybank lost a little weight and inner!me was content and happy with New Pretties and Shinies: vintage style Mickey Mouse tin, scrapbook stickers, a new set of acrylic stamps, yummies that got eaten, cute paper products from Korea (because those Koreans are freaking awesome with household things in a way those Swedes can never beat)..

Apparently "The Lion King" show is blacked out for most of December. So, January, maybe?

going to bed.

Infinite love is an implausibility
unbendably thick, forest-dense,
like sighting white-rabbits in white-misted-Wonderland;
if time were so unlimited
in blinded clock-white-faces
and aged life flexible in nymphish contortions,
then 't'ould be an equation variables self-provided
and gladly proofed against your doubts.

- Amber Jansuy (6/09)

It swirls and whirls, a-swirling, sipping, sound
in a murky, lurky, kind-of way as it goes down, down, down,
with a balderdash of blue, bubbly, boozing, oozing,
squelching from the rim; smoothly, soothingly, sacrilegiously
porous-free, portund, porcelain and perfect,
sliding phalanges, scraping fixations of crass, blunt, brass.
Olfactory oranges and lung-filling lemons:
scents of saintly satisfaction and services subside
at the gleaming, sheening, cleaning bowl of ass.

- Amber Jansuy (3/5/09)

Honey, I can't wait for you forever;
Release me from your sticky holdings,
let me bee done with your sweet tongue
and seek my own nectarious endings.

- Amber Jansuy (5/17/09)