what's new?

• ✓ oct. 2: alan winslow's birthday
• ✓ oct. 9: farmer's market + coffee w jules @ 10 am
• ✓ oct. 13: the greatest poet of the war is lost at the battle of loos, 1915
• ✓ oct. 18: hgsa meeting @ 5 pm
• ✓ oct. 24: thrifting w the girls @ 10 am!
• ✓ oct. 25: meet w saverio @ 12 pm
• ✓ oct. 25: st. crispin's day!
  • we few, we happy few, we band of brothers!
• ✓ oct. 30: rachel's halloween party!! :0)
• ✓ oct. 30: 100 years
• ✓ oct. 31: the eve of all saints
• ✓ oct. 31: nos galan gaeaf in wales

goals

• ✓ try lots of seasonal coffees!
• ✓ choose an advisor + schedule meeting
• ✓ find some more skirts and blouses @ the thrift store

obsessions

• marginalia, especially in the theory books i've taken out of the library, the markings of a lineage of students who have gone through this class before me... thinking about the marginalia in my professor's book that he gave me to look through, little notes scribbled in pink colored pencil...
• not to be self-centered but. the Specific brand of comments i get everyday on my outfits..... LIKE the number of times i've been told i look like a librarian or an academic or (esp. in my archives class) an archivist... I Am Thriving. there's nothing better than a blouse and a long skirt and a soft cardigan to keep u warm... add socks + a little pair of heels and you're all set!
• umm.... my halloween costume. the fact that absolutely no one was surprised that i entered the party dressed as a b-25 bomber pilot ("that's some catch that catch-22!")....... why did i look so GOOD

moments

• taking the train into the city every week! watching the slowly changing trees go whirling by... wandering the familiar streets, my feet always taking me to the art museum, where hours are spent in awe of rembrandt, of vermeer, of all my dear flemish artists, whose names i recognize like old friends from the days of art history... cozying up in the cafe with roland barthes and an iced coffee, noting down a sentence or two, but mostly losing myself in the gentle rush of his words, until it's time again to return to the art, and find myself in front of cézanne, el greco, and the master of the catholic kings, whose name is lost to history but who was given such a fantastic sobriquet in return...

good things about the month

• bright skies on the first of the month; hot coffee sprinkled w cinnamon; sunday morning reciting sorley's sonnets; iced pumpkin cold brew; bowl of blueberries for an afternoon snack; to-do lists on scraps of paper; dinner at rachel's ft. julia's pumpkin pastries; saturday morning farmer's market + coffee date w jules; apples from the market for breakfast; slow mornings; hours spent on research; puzzling over hayden white essays, tracing the narrative thread through history; maple cinnamon iced lattes; home for the weekend; walks under overcast skies; the joy of being with my family, with justie; the loveliest birthday in ages; trips to the thrift store; long skirts to keep warm; crying over sorley on sorley day whilst finishing my sorley book, as one might expect of me; my archives prof's homemade cookies; windy days; the dark grey skies of autumn; listening to the birds; cataloguing their calls; rereading kate's books, the writer i look up to the most; little ceramic bunnies from julia; a notebook filling with theories; cold brew in the evenings, to keep the research flow going; halloween party at rachel's! her lovely sangria; such a wonderful evening with friends, laughing until tears came running down my cheeks; the capricious weather of late october; snacking on candy whilst taking notes;