technical difficulties

A week ago I put my laptop in a coma... It woke up for about 30 hours on Friday (just enough time to back everything up on my shiny new external hard drive), but it has now passed on to the computer afterlife. I'm taking it to the store tomorrow to see if they can resurrect it, but we'll see if it's a Jesus computer or not... So for now, enjoy this gnome, courtesy of this lovely blog, while I do homework on library computers and check email and Facebook on my phone...

Guinevere

She's kind of taking over my life right now because of a project I have in Arthurian Lit...

Images found here and here.

an education

Almost all of my books for this semester. How busy am I?

single, no mingle

Happy Valentine's Day! I spent the evening with friends watching very un-romantic movies and eating sweet treats!

in the world of dreams

I've known about Brett Manning for a while now. I haven't visited her site in a while, but every time I do, I'm always awed at her illustrations. They're absolutely breathtaking and I automatically think of music by Bon Iver. I'm pretty sure she draws my dreams (both sleeping and day varieties). Sometimes I even wish that I could live inside the world of her art.

looking out

I've been so busy the past few days and today is the busiest out of all of them so far! I have so much to do and I'm barely in my room/on my computer...

One of my goals this semester (aside from being more sociable and blogging more frequently) is to stay on top of all of my classes and assignments. I want to do really well in school, especially considering how well I do these four years will determine graduate school programs for me in the future. And I don't want to be lazy with my future!

keep yourself warm

This winter has seen more snow that last winter and has generally been colder too. But my "outerwear" isn't much to shake a stick at. Being originally from California, I never really had a need to acquire more than one coat, so I only have two at the moment. I've gained a new one every Christmas since living in Washington for most of the year, so I guess that's a good start. But to spice up my anemic coat selection, I have scarves - and lots of them!

(Most of these were presents from relatives and friends this past Christmas. The only one I actually bought myself was the olive green circle scarf that I got at Forever 21. My mum actually knitted the first two!)

coats from Forever 21