What I Want to be When I Grow Up...

Photo Credit: I don't know who this is... I think I found it on Tulane's LAS website?

1. Bad ass glasses

2. Bad ass personal style

3. Tons of wrinkles

4. Cigar that looks too big for her mouth

5. What is in her hair? I don't know but I love it!

This is absolutely what I want to be when I grow up. This lady has tons of stories, and, by just looking at her, you know it. My friend Danielle has a love for precious looking elderly, but I think the sassy ones are my favourites.

spring is in bloom

Reading: "The Shining and Other Paths"

Listening to: Phantogram "Mouth Full of Diamonds"

Working on: Researching the Shining Path for a new paper

Thinking about: Home

Today I finished my Colette Bloomers, minus the ribbon. They're so bloody cute that I don't want to finish them with shoddy ribbon, or anything the wrong colour. This is the first project I've done using a patter, but I really like how they turned out (minus the China dust smudge on the inside)This is what they look like so far:

PICTURE

Download the patter here: http://www.colettepatterns.com/blog/colette-patterns-news/free-pattern-to-download-the-madeleine-mini-bloomers

I really want some mint green details to make them look a little more interesting.... Just to let you know, I don't have a sewing machine here. All of my projects, no matter how small, take forever to do. But luckily sewing is a great way to occupy my hands while practicing my Chinese with friends. If I'm busy like that, I'm less likely to over think what I'm trying to say and how to say it.

I can't believe how much has changed in just a few months. Here I am, speaking Chinese. How nuts is that?

Roles and Regulations

My mentor in college once told me that I "play to gender roles too much for someone so smart."

This slighted compliment got me thinking for a couple of months, and, after a mild freak out where I thought he was seeing something I wasn't, I decided that he was looking at it all wrong. Yes, I'm nerdy, but I want to be capable of all things. And what's more, I enjoy cooking and sewing. Wouldn't subscribing to modern day feminist notions of what a woman should be just as limiting as playing to traditional gender roles?

The point is, I am myself. I love to read, and learn languages, and debate. But I also love to cook, and sew, and take care of the people I love in old fashioned ways. All in all, I aim to surprise.