These are pictures I have taken on my way home from school...
It usually is terribly cold.
Not that you can see that.
Going outside in the early morning is never fun.
Dancing Shadows!
Shadow Sisters... that kind of sounds like a Riot Grrl band, wouldn't you say?
My ever-growing fangirl wall. Bones, Dan Rad, Tom and Summer, She and Him. My cousin, my sister and I a few years ago... I printed out some Emma Watson pics... and a couple of other things I didn't get around to posting yet.
I feel the last five years of my life have been, perhaps the ones where I have changed the most. Besides the obvious, such as not being a little kid anymore, there are other ways I have grown up that really took me a while to figure out. There's times, for example, where it will suddenly click that the way I think/feel about something now is definetly not how I would have felt/thought about it maybe even a year ago. Here are the ways I think I have grown up the most.
I am a feminist. As a child, I was only too happy to believe people when they told me a man's job is to protect his family. I'm sure I would have thought of Eleanor Roosevelt (one of my biggest role-models) as a sort of extremist. I believed it was men who belonged as the heads of the households. I believed women would never really be happy unless they were married. With a man. Now, I refuse to listen to anybody that tells me men are in any way superior to women. I refuse to take part in teaching young girls they will never achieve happiness in the future, unless they consider marriage. I know women are capable of just as much as men, if not more.
I question everything. I think I was a rather gullible little kid. I simply accepted other's opinions and points of view. Now not so much. I like to argue a lot, and I am quite opinionated. Word of the Wise: don't even get me started on Bones, Harry Potter or anything even remotely related.
Disney Channel just doesn't cut it anymore. I do admit I was obsessed with Hannah Montana and High School Musical and the Jonas Brothers. Miley Cyrus used to be my idol (much like Zooey D. is right now. Only Zo is a million times better.) and Zac Efron was going to be my future husband. Nick Jonas was going to be my super-sweet BFF. Whenever I hear any of those songs a wave of self-loathing washes over me. WHAT THE HECK WAS WRONG WITH ME? HOW DID I SUDDENLY DEVELOP GOOD TASTE? I listen to actual music now: Regina Spektor, Adele, M. Ward, She & Him, Joni Mitchell, Carole King, Death Cab for Cutie, Coldplay, The Script, occasionally The Beatles, as well as Elvis and Frank Sinatra. A lot of The Smiths and Cyndi Lauper, Feist, Florence + the Machine, JUDY GARLAND, Etta James, Ella Fitzgerald The Killers, The Script, and of course, Katy Perry and Taylor Swift. I also watch actual TV: Bones, White Collar, Coldcase, 60 Minutes, Nightline, World News, 20/20, Sunday Morning, What would You Do? and Saturday Night Live among others. And either Daniel Radcliffe or Joseph Gordon-Levitt are my future husbys.
It is really late right now, and since I'm tired I think I'll just leave you with cool vids.
Like my friend Lily's Original Bones Song. (She's such an awesome fan!! yaay!!)
She's fantastic!
And ColdPlay's "Clocks"
This is an awesome song. Shame my English teacher ruined it by likening it to the Epic of Gilgamesh...
And um... let's see...
How about a video of Zooey being awesome?
This song was featured in her movie (also starring Joe Gordon-Levitt) (500) Days of Summer. I love it. And I promise to make a post about it soon... when I don't have Midterms or anything.
