Stéphanie: Randomness is very difficult to achieve… organization always merges back if you don’t pay attention.
Stephane: Death to organization.
— The Science of Sleep (2006)
I wish it was like that for me. I’m the other way around. I try very hard to stay organized, but somehow I still always end up being random. This post contains random thoughts, arranged alphabetically in an attempt to be organized. Sort of. And oh, this is inspired by David Levithan’s novel “The Lover’s Dictionary”, which I have mentioned many times in my previous posts.
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alcohol, n.
A few days ago, I tried drinking the first alcoholic drink I have ever willingly drank. I don’t even know what it was exactly. It was mango juice mixed with rum if I remember correctly. I only had one glass, but it sure gave me a nasty headache! Plus, my face became all red. When I went to have my first drink with my friends, I saw this good-looking server who I met when I last went there at the restaurant. So embarrassing. He had to see me all red from one glass of whatever that is I drank.
One thing I’m sure of (at least right now): I act more drunk when I’m sleepy than when I’m intoxicated.
bibliophilia, n.
I consider libraries as my second home. Whenever I go to the library, I rarely go out without borrowing at least one book. Whenever I drop by to look around, I take out like an average of 4 books. I don’t get to read them all. I just pick the interesting ones, take them home and the elimination process begins.
I don’t always like reading. Sometimes it bores me, but most of the time I just really like books. I didn’t put “bookworm” here because I’m not someone who loves reading for what it is. I don’t really enjoy having to read the whole book in order to find out what’s going on. I actually tell my friends sometimes that I wish we find out what a book is about by eating its pages. I read because I like stories, not because I really like reading for its nature or whatever. Still, I feel happy whenever I finish reading a book. It’s like I earned a good story. I worked for it.
Right now, I’m reading my way towards my Goodreads challenge for 2012! I promised myself to read 25 books this year. I have already read 10.
femme, n.
I like being a woman. I enjoy being a woman. I enjoy what some woman these days do: painting faces, shopping, preventing wrinkles as early as possible. I have decided to make another small personal project, something close to a beauty blog called Femme. It’s not only a beauty blog of course. Whatever womanly stuff I want to talk about, I will post there. I’m just getting started over there, but do pay a visit if you have the time! :)
quotations, n.
I’m sure you’ve noticed, but I like collecting quotes from everywhere! Movies, songs, poems, novels… even stuff my friends say. Here’s a couple worth sharing:
“i am until i perceive otherwise” — She by Saul Williams
“Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it’s important that we don’t rely on it.” — Divergent by Veronica Roth
“In no matter what era of human history, including the Garden of Eden, everybody just got here.” — A Man Without A Country by Kurt Vonnegut
smellucinate, v.
I got this term from Urbandictionary. Obviously it’s a portmanteau of the words smell and hallucinate! Sometimes we think we smell something when, really, it’s all in our mind. Smellucination.
These days I find myself smellucinating a lot because I’ve been PMS-ing. I keep eating, bloating, getting depressed for no reason, and I keep craving the most random things which makes me smellucinate. I just really want black pepper beef right now…
university, n.
I got accepted into Simon Fraser University! I’m now officially going to be a Linguistics student. I’m one step closer to my dreams!
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Now let this attempt at organization fail spectacularly!
Here is a random gif from the internets:
Probably the cruelest cake someone can ever eat.
DEATH TO (BABY) ORGANIZATION!
Oh my! Haha I don’t drink too, and if ever I was in the same situation, I would end up like that too! That’s kinda embarrassing heehee but at least you’re with your friends :D
Congratulations on passing the university! I’m sure you’ll do really well there. Good luck :)
Haha I’m really random too. I keep a diary and when I started out, I was very organized and I wrote in great detail. But then as I grew up and wrote more, it just became more random. But I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that! :) Randomness is really awesome, that’s when I get most of my great ideas :D
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i honestly enjoyed this post. :) and because of that i miss hanging out with you all the more! xD
before i had the chance to taste beer and other alcoholic stuff, i thought it would be a great experience. but no, it just won’t. the hangover is definitely going to make you regret. also, i could most definitely relate to you on bibliophilia. you know me, i buy books and not really read them but i couldn’t stop doing it. sometimes, i think i should featured on that show, Hoarders. XD
your randomness is just so creative, i immediately thank God that you are one of my really [very few] closest friends. and with that, i sooo miss being in the presence of your randomness. :)
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1. I love how this randomness is presented. It’s so creative.
2. The term “Femme” reminds me of another term, “Butch and Femme” for some odd reasons. I checked out your blog. What it’s like being a woman…I kind of like that idea, rolling all those things into a single and separate blog.
3. Being a lover of books, it’s part and parcel to have a notepad to write down notes because we can’t highlight the borrowed books from the library. It sure comes in handy. Hand-picked quotes are more personalized and more meaningful for me than getting quotes from a movie, song or book from the internet which is seen in isolation.
BTW, “Snow Country” was discussed in our World Literature class. I love the story’s theme.
4. Wow, you’re going to be a new student again. Congratulations!
(Well I think I better present this comment this way. Have fun in all the books you’ll read!)
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I like that the comments are on the side here. I think there should be a balance between being organized and being random. I wish I could achieve this balance myself xD
I like the idea of reading, but I’m not so much the action of reading. My dad likes to read book in an unchronological order. He skips to the end and then returns to the middle part, ect. I find it amusing.
I like being a young woman (I think I’m still considered a girl) too. Go females!
I was not aware that smellucination existed. When I smell something that others don’t smell, I always just assume I have better smelling abilities. Maybe I was wrong…
Congrats on getting accepted into the uni! :O woop woop.
The baby cake scares me :C ewwy.
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I’ve never drank anything alcoholic except for a few sips of champagne on New Year’s, haha! But I have a strong feeling that I’ll have the same reaction that you do to alcohol, also most of it just tastes bitter anyways. :P
I love your idea of having a woman-related blog! That’s really cool, I’ll have to add that one to my bookmarks or something. :) Being a woman can be hard sometimes, but I think that we are strong, and even stronger than men in certain aspects! :D
It made me laugh when you talked about “eating a book’s pages” to understand its story instead of reading it! I totally agree with you, I actually hate hate hate actually reading the book, but I love hearing the story. Reading hurts my eyes after a while and can become tedious because I can’t read very fast, so I have to spend a lot of time reading to actually get a good chunk of the story done. -__-
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