what's new?

• ✓ jan. 1: new year's day! happy new year!!
• ✓ jan. 6: feast of the epiphany
• ✓ jan. 10: 23 years, 22 months, 22 days
• ✓ jan. 11: cal's birthday!!
• ✓ jan. 13: hedd wyn's birthday!
• ✓ jan. 14: one year since 1917 !!!!!!
• ✓ jan. 18: martin luther king jr. day
• ✓ jan. 20: happy birthday david lynch!!!
• ✓ jan. 21: the 21st day of the 21st year of the 21st century
• ✓ jan. 25: virginia woolf's birthday!
• ✓ jan. 29: lew's birthday :0)

goals

• ✓ achieve 100 crowns on welsh duolingo

obsessions

• ingmar bergman's workbooks, esp. his beautiful handwriting!!
• kate zambreno, moyra davey, all the girls and their many obsessions

moments

• scribbling five pages worth of gushy and exclamatory thoughts about first world war aces in my diary like i'm a repressed young woman living in 1918 who has touched a man's hand once (1 time) and dreams of being swept off her feet by mick mannock or james mccudden..... ok i just gave myself a past life regression thanks

good things about the month

• morning stretches; blueberry crisp iced lattes; the first bright and lovely days of the year; listening to the hounds of spring and fondly reminiscing about happy days of uni, my dearest professors! goodness i miss them; jacob's room; finishing mad men; mornings at the kitchen table, taking in the sunlight, writing away in my diary; the traveling wilburys cd on repeat at the bookstore; chocolate and iced coffee; walks in the crisp winter air; new copy of slaughterhouse-five! and it's the edition i've been longing after for weeks; a brilliant recording of virginia woolf speaking; toasted coconut iced lattes; new haircut; copying lines from jacob's room to practice my cursive; rewatching babylon berlin; ivor gurney, his music and poetry; notebooks from the thrift store;