Desserts

Desserts are my biggest weakness. I go crazy for them. When I was on my "healthy eating diet" my biggest temptation was sweet baked goods (which made working at Tim Horton's even more difficult, because donuts everywhere).

In college, it's even more difficult because the desserts are everywhere. They serve them at every meal; cookies, cake, pie, ice cream. I've been trying to cut back for ages, but they're absolutely irresistible! I think I've had 5 chocolate chip cookies over the course of the day. Yesterday I had one slice of cake for lunch, and one for dinner. This morning I also bought two delicious-looking cupcakes. I almost ate one right now, but I decided to put it away and save it for when I'm really hungry or if I'm studying hard.

Just because I'm mean, I'm going to post pictures of delicious desserts:

If I can't eat desserts right now, at least I can look at them.

...I really should start changing my eating habits.

Names I would name my children

I can't remember if I've done a post like this before, but I'll do it anyway. If I ever have children, that is.

Girls
Elizabeth
Amelia
Audrey
Madeline
Victoria

Boys
Alexander
Nicolay (it's my dad's name; pronounced Nick-o-lie)
Liam
Oliver
Julian

Poetry

Poetry's really growing on me. If you asked me about it a year ago, I probably would say that I didn't understand it too much. The past year, I've become friends with several people who really enjoy poetry, and a lot of the people I follow on tumblr are very much interested in poetry. Basically, it was inevitable that I would become interested in poetry when I'm surrounded by so many passionate poetry-lovers.


Last week, however, my history professor said something in lecture that really inspired me: "all of you should start learning poems by heart. Memorizing your favorite poems is probably one of the best things you can do for yourself". That really struck me. I automatically thought of Hazel from The Fault in Our Stars, and how she frequently recites poems in the book. It's such a beautiful thing, knowing your favorite poems. It's like carrying your favorite books with you all of the time, but it's even better because they're in your head to comfort you whenever you need it.

One poem that I've recently enjoyed very much is T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock". Here's my favorite passage:

And indeed there will be time
For the yellow smoke that slides along the street,
Rubbing its back upon the window panes;	25
There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;
There will be time to murder and create,
And time for all the works and days of hands
That lift and drop a question on your plate;	30
Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Before the taking of a toast and tea.

Beautiful, huh? I've been reading that passage a lot. What's even more amazing is that if you go on Youtube, there are videos of a lot of the poets from the early 20th century and onward reading their poems aloud. You can hear the actual writer read it! Super exciting.

Do any of you read poetry? What are your favorite poems, or your favorite poets?

Decisions decisions!

I've finally decided exactly what I want to focus on in college. I've narrowed it down to three subjects: history, film, and English. I'm so happy to finally have some idea of what I'll study.  I worried that I would never know what to study, and that I'd end up choosing something I didn't like at all. There were just so many different choices! Finally, I realized that these things are exactly what I'm most passionate about.

I'm especially excited about history and English right now. I already knew I wanted to specialize in film, but these other two things I realized only recently. Next semester, I'm taking a WWII in Europe history course, two film courses (one called Global Cinema; the other American Cinema), a course on Ancient Greek culture, and I'm now trying to figure out whether I can fit a literature course into my schedule too.

I know this probably isn't very interesting to anyone else except me, but it's exciting to finally know which subjects truly interest me!

Failure (and Harry Potter).

Lol sorry I guess I suck at BEDA. I'm still trying though. I will still try to do my best!

It's like 70 degrees outside today. It's 7 PM and I can still see the sun. It's still light out. I don't think I've ever been so excited for spring. It's finally here!

Here are pictures from my magical Harry Potter weekend:

I'm smack in the center.

From left: Sirius Black, Walburga Black, Regulus Black, Bellatrix Lestrange, Narcissa Malfoy, Draco Malfoy

 There are so many pictures I could put up here, but I won't because it takes forever and I'm lazy. If you want to see any more, feel free to ask and I'll put 'em up!

It was amazing to see just how dressed up everyone was. Some people really had amazing costumes. I should find a picture of our Nearly-Headless Nick and Snape. Those two were my favorite. We even had real owls! There were about six owls on display. It was amazing and magical. I can't wait for next year's event!

Tomorrow I'm going to try to blog about something else. I'm starting to think that I'm a very boring blogger.