#starboarding

Dandelion: hmmm a pet peeve of mine is when people condescend, either to me or to people around me. this is often sign-posted by the terms like “look…” or, “listen…” because those are so often used when someone is already paying attention to whatever is being said, and used to emphasize supposed inattention, or inability to discern the point that is being articulated, when usually the recipient is already ‘looking’ or ‘listening’…this is one of the things I actually told Ian I didn’t like, on one of the first times we ever hung out, because we were discussing particular things that we didn’t like other people around us to do or say.

another very inconsequential pet peeve: it gives me the fucking heebie-jeebies to see people bite into popsicles. like…hardcore sympathetic pains in my teeth gums…my mom and brother fucking chomp away on ice and popsicles and my sister and I always have physical, visceral reactions when we see them do this…idk why

Brussels Sproutlet: oh for sureeeeee. 1. I def drink more alcohol than I should. This is in part a reaction to grad school, but also an unfortunate consequence of how alcohol-laden field work is. If you can’t drink heavily, you aren’t viewed as a legitimate scholar/participant, and I’ve definitely fallen into that and not tried too hard to resist the unnecessary and unhealthy lifestyle that field archaeology can facilitate. 2. I spend waaaaay too much time on Tumblr/reading fanfic. I will advocate for the legitimacy of fanfic within the literary canon until my dying day…but I spend SO MUCH of my life reading fic. Honestly this probably just ties into spending too much of my life with my eyeballs glued onto my screen. But because I do such a variety of activities on my laptop every day, my brain gets tricked into thinking that I haven’t been staring at one lit-up surface for hours on end, and I get away with totally frying it, reading fanfic until the wee hours of the night, after the hours of academic reading and writing I do every day.

43. What book did you buy because of its cover?

I’m more likely to buy a book for its spine than its cover. I have big collections of Penguin Classics, Penguin Poets, Oxford World Classics, Penguin Modern Classics, Observer Books, New Penguin Shakespeare and Penguin Great Works so I’m always keen to add to those.

Just looking around at my shelves I think Weatherland by Alexandra Harris has a lovely cover and so does Claxton by Mark Cocker. I think my absolute favourite book covers are the New Penguin Shakespeares by David Gentleman and the Penguin Poets. 

10. What is a book that you own more than one copy of?

ok so I answered this yesterday but imma answer it again bc I LOVE food. and I will continue on the theme of how I answered yesterday, which is to think about what I like to eat/regularly eat when I’m doing fieldwork in Greece. 

SO. Watermelon, that is super ripe, and sweet, and delicious + really salty, briney, pungent feta cheese. It is a delectable combo that I totally gorge myself on regularly as afternoon snacks when I’ve just gotten back from a good 6-8 hours hiking through the Greek countryside. 

yes and it happens at least once a month

!! is this PAMLA?

yes!

how?

girl…. u need a new apartment, there is some Bad Energy in there

chels, that is the truest truth i have ever read in my entire life and i am trying to convince the universe that message received i am legit moving back in with my parents for 10 months just to get away from this place but it seems like maybe the universe doesnt have faith in my resolve? idk man.