Procrastination: Listed

Things to Do When Procrastinating:
-blogging
-cooking/baking
-reading something for fun
-food blogs
-facebook
-hulu
-TV
-housework
-running errands
-making lists
-spacing out
-txtmsging
-international cinema
-going to the gym/working out
-planning out what to do tomorrow/this evening
-planning out future meals
-reading other blogs
-reading cookbooks
-homework
-calling people
-writing in my journal
-starting new projects
-shopping, especially when done online
-going to movies
-eating
-sleeping
-going to parties
-more or less anything I do on a daily basis

Places I've Eaten the Past Week:

-jamba juice

-terriyaki stix (gross... why did I do that?)

-Ali Baba (Pakistani in Sugar House-- so good!)

-Spicy Thai

-Sammy's

-Marley's

-Elian's patisserie

-my house

-Sariah's house

-the library (shhh....)

What's Up, Doc?

Recent Happenings in my Life, in Case I Haven't Told You, or If You Were Curious, or if You're Just Bored/Voyeuristic:

-I got a job in Music and Dance special collections, so I now work for the HBLL... again

-I eat peaches a lot

-I eat a lot of cabbage

-My stomach is really loud lately (maybe all the cabbage?)

-I took my first (and only...) midterm of the semester this week!

-I have most of my time scheduled away, even though I'm still up to my procrastinating and unproductive ways!

-I'm figuring out my Halloween costume still, but it's more or less between Liz Lemon (soul twin #4) and the counselor from Glee (soul twin #2)

-I've started PhD applications... but haven't gotten far

-I'm planning to finish my prospectus this week! I CAN do it! Si se puede! (I don't speak Spanish.... is that how you say it?)

-I ignore my blogs when I'm legitimately busy... who knew?

-I keep realizing that I just want to be in school forever and learn everything! Who wants to teach me something?

-I still hate calling strangers... and people I know... except my Mom. She may be the only person I am comfortable talking with on the phone.

-I may be addicted to texting, in part because of the above. I might make a goal to change that. Maybe....

-Sometimes I'm emotional, but I'll still swear to you that emotions are for the weak! Because they are.

-My soul twin is Liz Lemon. For reals.

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.

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

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

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