Tuesday, September 28, 2010

The Art of Courtly Love

Andreas Capellanus' Rules Of Love, as Learned from the King of Love:

I. Marriage is no real excuse for not loving.
II. He who is not jealous cannot love.
III. No one can be bound by a double love.
IV. It is well known that love is always increasing or decreasing.
V. That which a lover takes against the will of his beloved has no relish.
VI. Boys do not love until they arrive at the age of maturity.
VII. When one lover dies, a widowhood of two years is required of the survivor.
VIII. No one should be deprived of love without the very best of reasons.
IX. No one can love unless he is impelled by the persuasion of love.
X. Love is always a stranger in the home of avarice.
XI. It is not proper to love any woman whom one would be ashamed to seek to marry.
XII. A true lover does not desire to embrace in love anyone except his beloved.
XIII. When made public love rarely endures.
XIV. The easy attainment of love makes it of little value; difficulty of attainment makes it prized.
XV. Every lover regularly turns pale in the presence of his beloved.
XVI. When a lover suddenly catches sight of his beloved his heart palpitates.
XVII. A new love puts to flight an old one.
XVIII. Good character alone makes any man worthy of love.
XIX. If love diminishes, it quickly fails and rarely revives.
XX. A man in love is always apprehensive.
XXI. Real jealousy always increases the feeling of love.
XXII. Jealousy, and therefore love, are increased when one suspects his beloved.
XXIII. He whom the thought of love vexes eats and sleeps very little.
XXIV. Every act of a lover ends in the thought of his beloved.
XXV. A true lover considers nothing good except what he thinks will please his beloved.
XXVI. Love can deny nothing to love.
XXVII. A lover can never have enough of the solaces of his beloved.
XXVIII. A slight presumption causes a lover to suspect his beloved.
XXIX. A man who is vexed by too much passion usually does not love.
XXX. A true lover is constantly and without intermission possessed by the thought of his beloved.
XXXI. Nothing forbids one woman being loved by two men or one man by two women.

Monday, September 27, 2010

On the wings of desire

What I want Right Now:
-Attention Span (for homework purposes, mostly)
-Tomato tart
-Simultaneously more and less energy
-Willingness to socialize
-More time in the day
-Scapegoat for laziness
-Better GRE scores...
-Motivation to write my prospectus
-Around my French Table, coming in 4-6 weeks by USPS, free to me

What I want, eventually:
-Get into the history PhD program at Toronto University
-Finish my thesis
-A career, or at least some kind of money to live off of
-Fluency in French (more than what I've got right now...)
-A year (or more) in Europe
-Rest

Friday, September 17, 2010

Le parfait du paon?

Birds in Le Bestiaire d'Amour:
-Rooster
-Swan
-Crow
-Caladrius
-Turtledove
-Partridge
-Ostrich
-Blackbird
-Siren
-Crane
-Peacock
-Swallow
-Pelican
-Eagle
-Dove
-Magpie
-Vulture

Monday, September 13, 2010

Baking as Procrastination

Things I like to bake:
-Cookies
-molasses chocolate chip cookies
-PB&J cookies, w/o J, w/chocolate
-David Lebovitz's chocolate chip cookies
-molasses cookies (haven't made them in years now)
-Crepes
-peach shortbread bars
-breads
-rye bread
-white bread
-french bread
-dinner rolls
-focaccia
-banana bread
-banana oat bread
-cakes
-avocado pound cake
-honey whole wheat pound cake
-brownies
-muffins
-Nancy Silverton's Bran muffins
-banana oat muffins
-blueberry muffins
-Israeli-Palestinian conflict muffins
-tortillas

Things I want to cook/bake of late:
-mayonnaise
-challah
-rice cakes (who knows why)
-cookies
-bran muffins
-quinoa
-Israeli couscous
-Moroccan couscous
-corn tortillas
-flour tortillas
-crepes

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Labor Day (AKA the official end of summer)

Summer Check List:
-Road Trip to California
-Manti Temple Pageant
-Found a job
-Passed my comps (hurrah!)
-Hiked Squaw Peak
-Read some books (mostly Hunger Games)
-Baked a moderate amount
-World Cup!
-Invented a diet based on a summer movie
-Road Trip to California, Again
-Taught exactly one (1) Sunday School lesson
-Went to IKEA a few times
-Threw a party for the World Cup (Lionel Messi's B-day)
-Went to Lagoon (pretty much THE theme park in Utah)
-Visited Seattle area
-Procrastinated all things related to thesis!
-Changed the color of my skin (aka got a tan, even if it doesn't look like much, it's still there)
-Procrastinated a hair cut
-Moved! At the beginning... (it threw me off to move in April instead of August, actually)
-Learned about The Wonder Girls
-Got lost in Midway
-Went camping with friends
-Provo Freedom Festival (three different days...)
-Camped out for 4th of July parade
-Watched a season and a half of '30 Rock'
-Went to Thanksgiving Point (Farm country)
-Went to my nephew's B-day party (he was visiting Utah right before moving to Tennessee)
-Went to a concert in Salt Lake and forgot my wallet (money AND ID)
-Went to a FREE concert in Salt Lake
-Went to a British Tea House in Salt Lake, then the British Store next door
-Ate Liege waffles once (1) and Belgian style fries once (1)! It's like being in Heaven, guys.
-Went to the Timpanogos temple (while Provo was closed)
-Played mustache badminton
-Provo farmer's market
-Bought a bike
-Discovered Sen. Orrin Hatch's (R) musical talents
-Helped some friends out with their mix tape release
-Attended said mix tape release party
-Never once (0) washed my car... gross