• organise experience for future career
  • in a museum/gallery
  • at a cultural heritage organisation
• keep learning
  • open studies courses
  • lectures at the gallery
  • read read read
    • pesonal research on cultural heritage
    • Da Vinci, Caravaggio, Velázquez, Manet, Sargent
• find a new job
  • save money
    • for tuition fees
• apply for masters 2018
  • Edinburgh

languages

• learn Latin
• learn basic Greek
• go over German
  • rewrite notes
• go over Italian
  • rewrite notes
• verb lists
• keep up with French & Spanish
• keep a vocabulary notebook

other

• type up art history notes
• read art history books {before starting Masters}
• read all saved articles & documents

• anatomy
• ancient Greece and Rome
• art of the medieval mediterranean
• ancient - modern astronomy
• Celtic history & mythology
• etymology
• Gothic architecture
• Gothic literature
• Greek mythology
• Islamic art & architecture
• Islamic mythical poetry
• Latin American politics
• linguistics
• mediterranean/Arabic history
  • mediterranean lingua franca {sabir} and creation of
• Romanesque sculpture & architecture
• the Romanovs
• women in antiquity
  • Sappho

• speak only if what you are going to say is more beautiful than silence.
• know who you are; dress accordingly.
• rid your life of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
• experience new things
  • in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. climb that goddamn mountain.
    • Jack Kerouac

• actor
• archaeologist
• archivist
• artist
• art history professor
• astronomer
• Egyptologist
• film critic
• film director
• French literature professor
• historian
• Latin teacher
• museum curator
• pathologist
• translator
• writer

• princess Anastasia
• Russian ballerina
• Indiana Jones
• actress
• a maid
• an Egyptologist
• a secretary
• a secret agent
• Mary, Queen of Scots

• Catherine of Aragon
  • marriage annulled
• Anne Boleyn
  • executed
• Jane Seymour
  • died after childbirth
• Anne of Cleeves
  • marriage annulled
• Catherine Howard
  • executed
• Catherine Parr
  • widowed

• museums and galleries
• cinema
• negronis
• French literature
• ballet
• travelling
• lingerie
• Mediterranean food
• driving fast
• gin
• snow on the Trossachs
• Florence
• languages
• empty theatres
• the romance of train stations & airports
• Byronic heroes
• the feeling of accomplishment
• classical guitar
• ancient ruins
• Velázquez

• "if you see anybody I know tell ‘em I hate ‘em all."
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1926

• almendra - almond (Spanish)
• almohada - pillow (Spanish)
• altramuz - lupin bean (Spanish)
• añoranza - nostalgia, longing (Spanish)
• arabesque - in the Arab style (French)
• azahar - orange blossom (Spanish)
• azure
• bambolina - doll (Italian)
• Baudelaire
• brindille - twig (French)
• caligynephobia - fear of beautiful women (Greek)
• caricia - caress (Spanish)
• diáfano - diaphanous (Spanish)
• emmeleia - concord, harmony (Greek)
• ennui - boredom (French)
• étoile - star (French)
• florecer - to blossom (Spanish)
• habib albi / حبيب/حبيبة قلبي - love of my heart (Arabic)
• honeyed
• hoyuelito - dimple (Spanish)

fashion inspiration:

• Percy Bysshe Shelley coming home hungover and dishevelled after a particularly wild night at Lord Byron’s