HELLO THIS IS A SHORT UPDATE BECAUSE IT'S BEEN A WHILE. I keep meaning to post but then... I don't, idk. You guys should probably be relieved though because otherwise I would have made a million posts that all started out pretending to be normal, only to turn into rly long MJ posts. And by a million I MEAN a million.

SO these are the things that have been going on in my life recently (that do not involve Michael Jackson):

- I WENT TO A REGINA SPEKTOR CONCERT \o/. I just got back a few hours ago actually. She was so goooood and also adorbs, ilher so much. I really need to get with the program and buy her new album already, all the songs she played off it were great.

- My mum had a pretty big surgery last Thursday, which I was fretting over a little even though it was a pretty routine and low-risk operation. It all went swimmingly though and she was even allowed home after 2 days instead of 6! She can't stand up/walk much at the moment, and she's not allowed to ride a bike or lift >2 kilos or basically have a life for the next month and a half, so I plan to keep her company with a stack of DVDs as often as I can. WHAT A CHORE, lol.

- I am pretty sure I'm coming down with something >:( I've been feeling generally blarg for a week or so now and my throat has been hurting like mad for the past 3 days as well. BUT my throat glands or whatever the hell you call them (plz correct my foreign ass if I got this wrong) feel completely normal, says my med student friend. AM I HALLUCINATING AN ILLNESS OR SOMETHING, idgi.

Okay I don't even remember where I was going with this post, I recall having actual interesting things to say and then it turned into... this. Idek :') I need to go to bed. I need to make this post a little less lame before I go though and this is how:



Conclusion: if you thought that Mickey Mouse sweaters were only cute on people under the age of 10 you can just THINK AGAIN. Also the adorableness of upside-down Michael is equal to if not greater than that of right side up Michael. LOOK AT HIM fna;sdg.

EDITED TO ADD THIS FOR GREAT JUSTICE, and also to say HELL YES HBP TOMORROW, FUCKING FINALLY. I don't know how I forgot to mention that!

So after about five years of going "gosh I really should..." I finally read Coraline! I know I know, not like it's even long or anything but idk I just never got around to it ok! Having done so now though I feel that I should mention how it is BRILLIANT. ~*Special thanks*~ to my housemate Jonathan for letting me borrow his copy, because otherwise it would probably have taken another 5 years. Soo yes if any of you are even slower than me (doubtful!) and have not read Coraline yet, do it! Neil Gaiman is awesome and this book is proof.

I only just realised that I accidentally planned basically my entire week to consist of movie marathons with a bunch of different people, oops? I'm watching Bollywood films with my nan tomorrow, as-yet-undecided films with a friend on Wednesday, and having a Harry Potter marathon with friends on Thursday because they will be in Denmark when the next one comes out so they need to be ~prepared~. I was going to go to Denmark with them but then I was short on cash, plus the timing was bad. Sadface! Anyway I'm pretty okay with the film marathon week because even though the weather has been really really good lately, apparently a NEVERENDING THUNDERSTORM is about to start tomorrow, so I guess I'll be safely inside during that mess. This is good!

Also, I am still hung up on MJ. This is less good because it means I unleash my MJ-related emo on the world all the time because I am apparently incapable of shutting up, and I am probably boring people slowly to death with it. But WTF IT SUCKS SO BAD. This is seriously longer than I have ever been upset about anyone dying, including relatives of mine. That really kind of disturbs me idk but I can't stop being sad about it? fnas'dkg I don't know, have a damn video of him with a llama being cute because that is all I am good for right now


OKAY THE END. Cry.

My brother's graduation was really nice \o/ he was the first person called to the stage by the teachers even, because he did best in some biology competition he never even told us about :') It is clear: my baby brother wins at life.

Also I had never been to his school before and HOLY SHIT, IT IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL ART DECO SCHOOL BUILDING I HAVE EVER SEEN. I am so jealous. From what I've heard I'm glad I didn't actually go there because apparently it's not particularly full of likeable people, but my own school's building was a hideous 70s (50s apparently, I stand corrected!) monstrosity and just, holy crap, I am so jealous! It's not like I'll ever have reason to be in that building again, so I decided to bust out my camera and take some pictures. I'm glad I did because I just trolled google and flickr to find more pictures of the building and hey guess what: there are like three of them, and they suck.

So yes, look at my baby brother's old school because it is gorge:



( Moar here! )

Okay, thus ends my picspam of envy.

Also yesterday evening I watched part of a BRILLIANT BBC documentary series about the very beginning of film history, called The Last Machine and presented by Terry Gilliam (hell yes!) It was AMAZING - so, so thorough and interesting and really fun to watch! My dad taped it when it aired in the 90s, but accidentally recorded something else over nearly half of the episodes. D: I've been googling for hours because I really want to see the rest of it, but I can't find a single episode available for download ANYWHERE, nor has the series ever been officially released. THIS IS RLY UPSETTING >:( Damn you, BBC. I don't know if anyone with more Google chops than myself can find it, but if you do I will be grateful to you for fucking ever. I am desperate D:

MY BABY BROTHER GRADUATES TODAY!!! \o/

I would complain about being officially old now but frankly idc, especially since we're celebrating with lunch at a fancy Chinese restaurant. APPROVED.

Augh god I'm having a really bad headache right now. I just hope it's because of the warm weather or something, because otherwise it's probably due to the change in my sleeping pattern, which suggests that there will be more headaches in my near future (and frankly, fuck that!)

I've had a sleeping problem for just about as long as I can remember. I finally went to see a doctor about it this month, because after I moved out it escalated from really bad to unmanageable - I couldn't fall asleep before 6-6:30 am, but I couldn't wake up after less than 9 hours of sleep either, which left me with an actually really stable but REALLY FUCKED UP sleeping schedule. I have melatonin pills now, which I use to be able to fall asleep between midnight and 1 am, and I try not to sleep more than 9 hours a night. I've been continuously tired and kind of listless since I started nearly 2 weeks ago, but I'm honestly surprised I'm not feeling worse or having more difficulty keeping this up, since as far as my internal clock is concerned I'm suddenly getting up in the middle of the night all the time and going to sleep mid-afternoon. I just hope the headache isn't going to be a recurring theme, because HELL NO. Anyway yes, I just wanted to mention this here because it's kind of a big deal to me, and honestly I'm pretty proud of myself! I'd almost resigned myself to ending up as a night porter or some shit, but now it turns out I'm capable of fixing this!

In other news, I am still shockingly upset about Michael Jackson. I really don't know what happened there - I mean, I love his music and I've always been incapable of hearing sad life stories like his without getting way too upset, but his death has hit me waaaay harder than I would have expected. I can't get it out of my head, idk. It's really confusing to me to be this upset for this long. Blargh I don't know. Dammit MJ :(

Okay I am done with the emo talk now, promise! In happier news I went shopping with Renée today which was nice, even though I didn't buy anything downtown. The weather was nice and I saw lots of pretty things, so that was fine. We made an order off Modcloth when we got back though and I got REALLY BRILLIANT THINGS which I have been lusting after for months now:







Yay, pretty things \o/


Oh damn now they're showing really old MJ videos on tv and I'm all :((( again. OKAY OVER AND OUT before this post gets even whinier!

Omg so I just had a completely ordinary day visiting family with my brother and getting my hair cut and now I'm back and the entire internet is telling me that MICHAEL JACKSON IS DEAD?!

PEOPLE THIS AIN'T OKAY. Damn. :( He got all creepy looking towards the end and obviously he had a ton of problems, but he made such good music earlier in his career and he was such a hottie before all the surgery and I AM SAD.



RIP Michael, ilu :( :(

(Also goddammit ONTD is suspended. I need somewhere to vent for the next hour or so, I DO NOT APPROVE OF THIS BULLSHIT)


Ugh this sucks, for real. I'm pretty upset D: UNDEAD YOURSELF, MICHAEL JACKSON. WE'VE LOVED YOU AS A ZOMBIE BEFORE, WE WILL DO IT AGAIN.


:'(

So many awesome things going on! IL my life right now.

Firstly of course MY BROTHER PASSED HIS FINAL EXAMS HELL YEAH \o/ he did so well, I am v. v. proud! I want to buy him a gift since I have money again (I spent the last two weeks basically without it, no lie) but I don't know what he waaaaaants D: Possibly I have located the most difficult person in world history to buy presents for. He never wants anything, HOW CAN HE NEVER WANT ANYTHING? Idk idk. I will find him something though, I am determined!

Besides this I have been doing a tiny bit of studying and a lot of hanging around with friends, which is the way I feel things should be since I am at heart a lazy bum. I went to see my housemate Jonathan play Rosalind in an A+ hilarious version of As You Like It, watched Top Hat and a couple of... um, interesting Jason Isaacs films with electricwitch (man Jason Isaacs you know I love you A LOT but I just, I mean, what the fuck), spent time with my family for father's day, and just got back from inspecting fantoom's new crib which IS AMAZING and which I would basically move into asap if it was... not already someone's crib. Also a friend notified me that Regina Spektor is playing a gig in Amsterdam in July so we will be going to see her play next month!! I AM EXCITED.

Idk idk I think my point is that life is rly nice right now? Yay \o/

Also I am the laziest person in the world so I have already shooped three whole pictures of my room into something resembling acceptable quality, and this is them:







More to follow when I am not lazy! I love my room so you're gonna have to put up with a big-ass picspam at some point, guys.

It is rly late though so I'm off to bed now, since tomorrow I am to visit my nan and watch Bollywood films with her HELL YES. It's been too long since I've watched any!

See that right there? That is why I love summer. Well also the warm weather and the sunlight and the holidays and all, but mostly I really really really love summer fruit. NOM NOM NOM

So anyway, I was initially going to write an enormous long distraught post about how I must be an insane person because I had somehow managed to completly vanish my only hairbrush, in a room that's not even 20 square meters nor particularly full of storage units, but then it turned out that I was not insane after all and one of my housemates had snuck into my room when I was out and borrowed it. Once more I turn out to be less weird than I thought! (Seriously though, I am chaotic and disorganised in every other way imaginable, but I NEVER lose stuff. I was distraught. IT TOTALLY MERITED A POST OKAY.)

I concede, though, that there is also stuff going on that might be slightly more interesting than a lost hairbrush: my brother gets his final exam results tomorrow! I'm pretty convinced that he's passed and will thus be graduating high school in two weeks (fna'sdlg augh how is my baby brother suddenly this oooold!), but it's still one of those nervous moments that has the entire family on edge, because they're his final exam results and HE IS ALL GROWED UP. :'( The good news, though, is that he'll be going to Leiden for his university studies just like me, so I will be able to occasionally knock on his door and sternly inquire if he's had anything to eat besides pizza in the past month.

Also, I uploaded a bunch of music for jahrhundert and I figured some of you guys might be interested too! They're all songs by Kurt Weill, many of which I may have posted before at some point, but since I love them an unreasonable amount and Kurt Weill is amazing and also my hero, I am posting them again anyway and you will just have to deal. They are all sung by Lotte Lenya because she is the only one who gets to sing Kurt Weill songs in my opinion. Also I want to be her when I grow up, and I'm only okay with not marrying her because a) she is dead and b) she and Kurt Weill were married and it was adorable and they are my historical OTP forever.


LOOK AT THESE AWESOME BITCHES, YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO BE THEM.

So yes, the songs:

Threepenny Opera
Die Moritat von Mackie Messer
Barbara-Song
Seeräuber-Jenny

Happy End
Introduction (Hosiannah)
Bilbao-Song
Matrosen-Tango
Der Song von Mandelay
Das Lied von der harten Nuss
Die Ballade von der Höllenlili

I hope some of you will take (and hopefully also like) them so I can feel like I am doing right by my OTP :') And also seriously, if you do not like Lotte Lenya I may have to stop considering you a person. BEST LADY EVER.

Hokay, back to my cherries and civil law summaries I go!

Holy shit, you guys, I have actually not posted for an ENTIRE MONTH. That's pretty shocking! I'm still working on putting together my lady art picspam post and having it be less than five kabillion pictures, but someday it will be posted, I promise. Also coming hopefully soon: pictures of my new room! I kind of like it a lot, but every time I try to take pictures, all of the clouds in the world gather above the house as if on cue so I can't take a single decent photo. Fie! It'll happen though, hopefully also soon.

In the meantime, have a music video I like! It is by a Swedish band called MOVITS! who play swing music and rap over it, in Swedish. I promise you that even if you already think this sounds awesome, it is actually way more awesome than you think. Also the video is A+! Essentially... I want to marry this song and live in this video.



Aaaand secondly I hope you are all familiar with the cutest blog in world history, entitled My Milk Toof, but just in case you are not... well, there's the link. It is a photo blog about the adventures of two little milk teeth called Ickle and Lardee, who take care of plants and are afraid to take baths and oh my god it is so adorable I cannot even explain it to you. Have some pictures from it instead:











FOR REAL HOW ADORABLE IS THIS SDLKGDSJSDGH
And that's not even including the stories I took these pictures from. I am DYING of cuteness.

Aaaand finally, jahrhundert just sent me an (awesome) essay she wrote, in which she actually acknowledged me for all the useless fangirl squeeing I have been doing about Asta Nielsen! Who knew my online nerdiness would one day lead to my being acknowledged in an essay (if only because jahrhundert is sweet enough to acknowledge me for saying useless things ♥)! Soooo yes, this just made my day! \o/

Hokay back to studying I go! Blarg exams D:

Renée and I have been watching lots of film series lately - I'm not sure what prompted that, but it's kind of fun. So far we've finished all of the Harry Potter films, the Mummy series (OHAI 1930s BRENDAN FRASER I DIG YR SUSPENDERS) and, most recently, the LOTR trilogy (the extended versions, obviously), which made me distressingly aware that even though I've seen them all a ton of times I still managed to forget that half of the scenes even existed, and also that my lame crush on Haldir from three years ago is still firmly in place. (DO YOU SEE HOW I WAS LAME AND COMMENTED IN TINY FONT THREE YEARS AGO? DO YOU SEE IT??? Ohh younger self.) Also, it made me really really want to change my LJ tag for whiny emo posts (currently "cheer up emo kid") to "why does it cry sméagol?". I may still do this, as I secretly love it. Not-so-secretly now, I guess.

Another fun thing I did: I went to a museum on Sunday! I went with my mum, it being Mother's Day and all, and it was REALLY AWESOME. Actually I have been going to museums frequently-ish lately (which, yay, I don't do that nearly enough so go me) - I've even been to the Waterhouse retrospective in Groningen twice now, which is quite a feat considering that Groningen is ~3 hours away and I normally can't even bring myself to visit the museums around the corner from my house. Anyway, the Waterhouse retrospective was awesome, but the Gemeentemuseum around the corner from my parents' house had a really brilliant exhibit, so that is the one I'm going to be fapping about in this post. Actually they had two brilliant exhibits: the first one we saw was the Christian Schad retrospective, which wasn't as big as I had hoped but still awesome, despite the fact that they didn't have one of my favourites of his:


(Lotte, 1927/'28)

Anyway it was still awesome and they did have ( another favourite of mine (cut for boobz). ) So yes, go go Christian Schad!

AND THEN there was the exhibit that I loved x a million, which was about artist couples and their work! The official exhibit name (in Dutch) translates to "Love! Art! Passion! Artist Spouses," which ain't right because a lot of the couples weren't actually married (and a bunch of them split up due to the relationship being really depressingly awful, like Claudel/Rodin and Höch/Hausmann) but nonetheless, it was a pretty fucking brilliant exhibit. For one thing, I'm willing to bet that it's the only (non-monograph) exhibit I've ever seen where at least 50% of the art was by female artists, and even besides that, most of the artists featured were pretty fucking awesome. Every room was dedicated to either one couple or two of them, and for every couple there was a pretty lengthy blurb about their art and their relationship on the wall, which was really nice. The relationships themselves really ran the gamut from crappy and abusive and sexist and short to adorable and emancipated and fair and lifelong, and most of the art was wonderful. I also bought the exhibit poster, with this painting on it:


(Alexej von Jawlensky - Girl with peonies, 1909)

Yay! I bought a little catalogue/program type book (which of those is (more) correct to use here? HELP ME OUT YOU GUYS) of the exhibit as well, so I may post an art spam based on that soonish, possibly focused on the art by the ladiez, because I like to do my bit for feminism. Would you guys be interested in that possible post I might possibly post y/n?

I am really sucking at posting about Bob Dylan (or at all) aren't I! Tragically I've been feeling sort of half-sick-but-not-really-sick-but-still-kind-of-physically-pathetic for the past week or so, so I keep telling myself that I will watch comfort movies and sleep a lot instead, and so I do! It is fun, but I miss updating my LJ so this will be my official Bob Dylan post, and what it will also be is probably disjointed and weird, since I am still suffering from my pathetic not-quite-illness.

So, yes, Bob Dylan! I was HELLA NERVOUS before the concert started, which resulted in my pretending that I wasn't broke and stress-buying the tour program, which is awesome but sports an unfortunately creepy picture of His Bobness on the cover (including cowboy hat and a spectacular creepstache. I feel they could have chosen a more suitable one, such as sexy young Bob, but sadly I do not have a say in these matters). I also bought the poster, which is exactly like this one:



except with the appropriate dates and location (evidently I was not in Minneapolis) and without the American flag, and also it is red and gold, not green and yellow. The poster, too, has kind of an unfortunate Bob mugshot, but since I liked the combination of the red with the gold letters and since I am THE WORST at abstaining from buying merchandise I bought it anyway. The only reason I didn't buy one of the shirts, which I wanted incredibly badly even though I would probably never wear it, was that I was strapped for cash.

Anyway, I was all nervous and shit and then THE SHOW STARTED and BOB DYLAN WAS IN THE ROOM and he was two things, namely:
1) wearing a hat, and
2) BRILLIANT

Oh actually no he was three things, because he was also
3) IN A GOOD MOOD?!

I am still baffled at this. It's not like I could tell from all his cheerful banter to the audience since there was none of that (I am given to understand that this is his ~thing~), but he looked to be grooving out and sounded very cheerful when he introduced the band at the end of the show. And also did I mention that he was BRILLIANT because he was! I was thankfully prepared for the fact that he likes to essentially write a bunch of new songs and slap his old lyrics onto them and call them the same songs, so it was fun to try and make out what he was singing (he is hard to understand sometimes, bet you didn't know that), but yeah, it was a brilliant show. The band was amazing and the music was amazing and Bob Dylan was nasal and mumbly and amazing and CHEERFUL WTF and also I wish to marry him still even though he is old and mumbly and still wearing silly hats.

I only managed to take one picture that didn't suck an unearthly amount and it is this one:



But since Bob Dylan is old and wrinkly now anyway it is not really about the pictures is it! I also managed to record I think about 90% of the music on my crappy million-year old digital camera, so I have an audio memento of the show as well! \o/ If anyone wants me to upload the audio files, that too can be arranged.

I also have a couple of enormously tragically crappy videos, of which two are presentable-ish, and this is them:





My camera is a loser and so were the people in front of me, so their stupid heads would get in the way and make my camera confused about where to focus >:O Still, I got video and audio and useless merchandising AND I WAS IN THE SAME ROOM AS BOB DYLAN AND THE AMAZING CONCERT THAT HE GAVE so in the end I am very pleased indeed!

Conclusion: YAY BOB DYLAN.

That is all!

Oh man so many people read our ADIML that my photobucket account is now out of bandwidth?! Crazy! Well okay so it's either that or hotlinking, but obviously I prefer option one there. It's certainly making my LJ layout look interesting though. Anyway, photobucket tells me that all the pictures will be back up tomorrow so it is only temporarily tragic.

I was going to do a whole OMG BOB DYLAN, LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT BOB DYLAN, INTERNET LISTEN TO MY STORIES OF BOB DYLAN post today, but I feel kind of sick and crappy, so it will have to wait until I am not so insanely busy sitting on the couch and drinking tea and being nauseous and feeling sorry for myself. Blaarg.

Sooo until I can get my act together enough to do a proper Bob Dylan post, have an entirely unrelated but extremely awesome youtube video? Well I'm not sure it entirely counts as a video since it's just a static picture with a song playing, but it is about the song anyway so you'll just have to deal.



It is the Puppini Sisters covering Beyonce's Crazy in Love, and it is on my personal shortlist for best thing ever. WATCH IT YOU GUYS, I'M SERIOUS.

Okay I am going to drape myself over the sofa and look consumptive some more, bye guise

I AM SEEING BOB DYLAN TOMORROW

ACTUALLY IT'S PRETTY MUCH TODAY SINCE IT'S PAST MIDNIGHT

LET ME JUST REITERATE


BOB DYLAN

TODAY

RA;SDLGKASHDNVDJSAKG

I AM NOT SURE I AM MENTALLY PREPARED FOR THIS?

Basically I am coping by going insane because... is there any other way?

Also I made this:


(Courtesy of this here site)

But frankly I DON'T EVEN CARE IF BOB DYLAN SHOWS UP TOMORROW ALL OLD AND WRINKLY AND ACTS LIKE A GRUMPY PRISSY BITCH AND MUMBLES THE WORDS AND WON'T COME OUT OF THE CORNER BECAUSE...

HE IS BOB DYLAN


AND I WILL BE IN THE SAME ROOM AS BOB DYLAN???

Man my brain is already fried, it's like my Tom Waits jitters all over again D:

SEND ME MORAL SUPPORT OR SOME SHIT YOU GUYS

Finally I have stopped being lazy and finished our ADIML post! Yay \o/ Now all I have to do is stop being lazy and finish the other million things I am supposed to be doing which are actually important. Err oops? But yes, time for my ADIML entry! Crossposted to the actual community, of course.

On March 25 my housemate Renée (a_suitcase) and I did a shared ADIML to celebrate Lee Pace's birthday! As you might expect, we mostly used this as an excuse to organise a day around pretty dresses, pie-baking and Lee Pace-related viewing material. (For the uninitiated: Lee Pace is the actor who plays Ned, one of the main characters on Pushing Daisies. Renée has an epic crush on him and has dragged me down with her, though I can't say I mind :D)



65 images total.

( Don't mess with the pie-hos! )

Today I finally had another ADIML day, the first one in almost exactly a year! I did it together with Renée - today was Lee Pace's birthday, which we decided was an A+ reason to wear pretty dresses and matching aprons and bake pies and watch a lot of Pushing Daisies and other Lee Pace related stuff. IT WAS PRETTY FUCKING AWESOME. Proper post to follow, I just wanted to uh, say this I guess because it was fun and also an ADIML! Yay \o/

Also the pies we made? PRETTY FUCKING GLORIOUS. Four berry pie and pear pie with gruyère baked into the crust YES PLZ

FLDA;SGLJASHDFA HOLY CRAP YOU GUYS

I ALREADY KNEW I'D PASSED MY ROMAN LAW EXAM

BUT GUESS WHAT


TURNS OUT THAT I PASSED IT IN A WAY WHERE I SCORED A 9/10.

A;'XFG;SDFSHGADG HOLY CRAP. IF YOU NEED ME I'LL BE OVER HERE. ON THE FLOOR. DEAD.

OH ALSO I BOUGHT THE MOST BEAUTIFUL COAT IN THE WORLD, AGAINST MY BETTER JUDGMENT BECAUSE I HAVE SPENT TOO MUCH RECENTLY ALREADY:



LOL I BOUGHT IT YESTERDAY AND THEN WENT TO BED AND DREAMED THAT I HAD LIKE €5 LEFT ON MY BANK ACCOUNT. LOL SUBCONSCIOUS I'LL GET THERE SOON DON'T WORRY

BUT YES BASICALLY MY LIFE WINS RIGHT NOW :D :D :D

Man, sometimes I really fail at online shopping. Renée and I have decided to make our house less fug, so we're both looking for nice posters and prints to buy. This sounded like a good idea to me, because... it allows me to buy tons of pretty posters? Also, since it turns out that I don't have as many posters and other wall-covering pretty things as I thought I did, I need a few for my own room anyway. So I was all "HELL YES LET'S DO THIS" and sat down with my trusty internets to look for posters I wanted. And then I couldn't think of anything to search for!

Normally I have no problem going "OKAY I WANT THESE FIVE MILLION POSTERS THAT I FOUND RANDOMLY ON THE INTERNETS, LET ME JUST oh damn guess what I'm broke", but somehow every time I actually have the money or the opportunity to buy something like posters or other decorative nonsense I have no idea where to start! I know I'm going to be buying these two for certain:



But besides those I am totally drawing a blank, so once again I must turn to the internets for help! There are probably a million films I would like a poster of and a trillion great artists whose shit I want on my walls, but I can't think of anything to buy so idk where to even start looking D:

So: WHERE DO I BUY PRETTY POSTERS AND/OR PRINTS YOU GUYS?? I know y'all have good taste so help a sister out! I feel like I should be too proud to also add AND WHAT SHOULD I BUY to this enquiry, but fuck it, plz tell me what you would buy if you had the money and space for a million posters!

Also speaking of making the house less fug: I have finally started painting my room! Um, painting it green that is. I already painted it white to avoid having to look at the previous owners' paint job, which I am fairly convinced basically consisted of them rolling around in ugly dark red paint and then throwing themselves at the walls - not very attractive! But now I'm finally gettin' started on the colour and I am excited! It is v. pretty, I approve. Soon my room will be beautiful! And hopefully also containing posters. THESE ARE EXCITING TIMES.

EDIT: HOLY CRAP LOOK AT THIS



NEW FAVOURITE POSTER IN THE WORLD. Only it costs £40. £40. Wryyyyyy D:

Holy crap my life kind of rocks?!

+ I PASSED MY FUCKING ROMAN LAW EXAM SO HARD, HOLY SHIT. They posted the answer sheet online today and I only got 4/30 multiple choice questions wrong, and the open question right as well. Holy craaaap.

+ I bought pretty dresses on Asos!



Also I only have to pay half of the shipping costs because I'm ordering together with Renée \o/ Having a housemate who digs Asos as much as I do is KIND OF BRILLIANT.

I also wanted to buy this dress on clearance:



But then someone snatched the last one up right before I wanted to put it in my basket! AND NOW SOMEONE RETURNED ONE SO I CAN STILL BUY IT, but I'm not sure I should? Is it nice enough, internet?

+ Renée and I are working on making our living room prettier, which is fun. Our first poster arrived today:



Cutest ever? IT MIGHT BE.

+ I just found out that there's going to be a showing of a silent Lubitsch film with Pola Negri in my hometown on Monday! I AM SO THERE, holy crap.

I think I was going to scream more, but I'm off to a lecture type thing about Polanski in a minute so this will be all for now. But um yes, basically good times are upon me it seems!

Today is my little brother's birthday!! Well ok technically it was yesterday as of 1 hour and 42 minutes, but whatever, we can roll with it I am sure. He is now 19!! I AM A LITTLE CONFUSED. It seems to me that I should be the one who is 19, but ~time flies~ and all of that nonsense. Anyway yes, happy birthday little brother who does not read my LJ!


Ilu baby brother, even though you always flash the same fake smile in pictures. <3

Actually, looking for this photo of us reminded me of the A Day In My Life post it came from, which made me realise that today being my brother's birthday also means that this is the anniversary of my first ever ADIML! Which, uh, was also the second to last one I did because I did two in March of last year and then forgot about the whole thing, hahaha. Maybe I should do one again sometime soon, they were fun to do.

Anyway yes, my point is that it is my little brother's birthday and that he is awesome. And that I am visiting home! Which is a very weird concept in and of itself, but I am dealing with it.

Okay back to studying, EXAM ON MONDAY BRAIN IS FRIED OH GOD WHY

Omg guys I am living in Leiden! This is really awesome. Also a little weird, but mostly awesome. The most daunting thing is cooking (because I... can't), which I haven't attempted yet because I had class from 7-9 pm yesterday and so settled for bread, but tonight may be the night where I set the house on fire. Exciting!

Also today I got my first mail at my new address! It was a very serious contender for Most Appropriate Postcard Ever Received By Me, from my parents and brother - this one, to be exact:




Awesome!

Err I am out of interesting things to say already it would seem! This is mostly due to the fact that all I am doing lately and all I will be doing until the 9th of March is working REALLY FUCKING HARD so as to not fail the most important resit of my life - if I fail this one the law faculty will kick me out because you have to have passed all your first year classes by the end of your second year. Which, you know, sounds reasonable and all. Unfortunately though, this particular course I haven't passed yet is the biggest bitch in the ENTIRE UNIVERSE, and I say this as someone who normally doesn't even have to study to pass her exams. I've failed this one twice now. I am so nervous, it's insane D:

Okay back to studying I go!



...in my new house FUCK YEAH