what's new?

• ✓ feb. 3: allie's birthday!
• ✓ feb. 8: ree's birthday!
• ✓ feb. 11: tłusty czwartek!
• ✓ feb. 14: st. valentine's day
• ✓ feb. 16: the 47th day of the year
• ✓ feb. 16: mardi gras, carnevale!
• ✓ feb. 17: ash wednesday – lent begins
• ✓ feb. 20: merrill's birthday!
• ✓ feb. 24: bromley's birthday!
• ✓ feb. 24: happy twin peaks day!!!

goals

• ✓ finish filling notebook (writing + notes)
• ✓ read eliot's "ash wednesday" (aka my favourite!) on the 17th
• stop having daydreams abt blunden every other page and finish reading undertones of war... girl i'm begging you!

obsessions

• the slender, strange, gorgeously-designed books published by dorothy
• mendelssohn's overture to a midsummer night's dream....!!!
• as always, kate zambreno, amina cain, danielle dutton, nathalie léger, suzanne scanlon, all the brilliant women writing ghostly correspondences in the margins of today's world of publishing

moments

• not ryan asking me who my favorite mad men character is and me saying pete campbell and him going i knew you were going to say that..... i literally just met ryan this week do i have my love for pete campbell written on my forehead... (the answer: yes)
• iced coffee, snow, paperbacks, notebooks, dreamy dusks, stifled laughter, friends and films and the feather-lightness of mild weather....
• new kate zambreno book in june !!!!! this is not a drill, ladies !!!!!

good things about the month

• babylon berlin season three; "du bist alles" on endless repeat; new (old) books in the mail; mid-afternoon lunches with justin, my favorite part of the day; bundling up for walks at all hours, admiring the snow as it sinks from the skies; iced coffees in the morning from joey's local coffee shop; the overture to a midsummer night's dream; prequel-era obi-wan; heart-shaped chocolates, a comfy sweater, justie, the vibrance of an early winter morning... a perfect kind of valentine's day; books on books on books; the colors of a winter dusk; glazed doughnuts with friends; a scattered mind set down in half a dozen notebooks; hours of focused research; lists of books, lists of poems, lists of writers; toasted blueberry bagels; sneezing fits over dusty novels; humming "it's a long way to tipperary" and thinking of ivor, who almost certainly sang it at the top of his lungs in 1917; coming home with arms full of books; rows of stamps pulled from envelopes and used as bookmarks; the brilliant dostoyevsky; a just-sweet-enough iced raspberry latte; walks in the mild weather; giggling over edmund's memoirs; portraits of the handsome aldous huxley; little notebooks; singing, always singing;