I am hard-core old-style, yo!

[philena]

"How hard-core old-style?" you might ask. I respond with this list:

-Afternoon tea.

-With loose tea and a tea pot and a tea-cup and tea-spoon and saucer, which I drank while

-using paper and envelopes and even stamps to catch up on correspondance

 -with a fountain pen

-while stopping between letters to catch up on email . . . Well, I got to four bullet points, at any rate. Then the times caught up with me. So I might as well embrace them, start re-mixing what sound recordings I have for my BA to see whether I can actually splice vowel or not (since Irina won't actually keep a date to record some more, I've got to get as ready as I can to prepare the listening tests without), and  repeat on my online blog what suddenleap said about her Boy (rival, I believe) while having milkshakes with me and annabananaface . Namely, "He is the bad-assest programmer in all the Ivy League." This was funny at the moment, but right now I think the subtle, self-mocking referential humour is mainly lost. I refuse to erase the quotation, though. It would mean admitting defeat in some way. So would simply posting another picture just because it's a good picture and I can, which is why I blathered on about afternoon tea before getting to the goods.


I have decided that since Daniel and I pretty much exist in other people's eyes so that they can coo at how adorable we are (this really is a pretty uniform reaction whenever people see pictures of us), I might as well admit defeat, like a kitten who has realized that he'll never be taken seriously no matter how dignified he acts, so he might as well have a good time and bat at that shoe-lace. Therefore, here is some shameless promotion:










The text underneath reads, "You are the only thing in all this wide, wide world that I have every truly, wholly loved--just you alone."

Comments

[suddenleap.livejournal.com]

BOY!

Oh, how I miss him!

[ducksarepeople2.livejournal.com]

Gee...it's...it's almost like I've seen that somewhere before...haha.

P.S. I don't know if you've been in the lab at all recently, but I hope you're not too upset that I changed the computer background.

[philena.livejournal.com]

I have not been in the lab since the quarter started. I spend all my time at that desk upstairs. But what is the background now? Quentin Tarantino?

[ducksarepeople2.livejournal.com]

Remember all those pictures you took for the housing quiz? There was this really old map amongst them and it's a close up of that, but it's cool because the foreground is really sharp and the background is out of focus. You'll see. (Someday.) By the way, I can't believe you get ALL monitoring shifts, lucky. I have NONE. 15 hours a week in the lab.

the obligatory

[summercomfort]

Awwwww...

[parisienne.livejournal.com]

I don't know what it is about pictures of the two of you. When I see them I'm sort of overwhelmed by a sense of how "right" you two look together, but I wonder if I didn't know you, and know how you two go together, if I would have the same feeling. I think I would. You always look so genuinely Happy. It's really nice.
And that quote from the picture that is not the two of you in phenomenal. I will steal it I think.