December 2010
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Colgate
Colgate is my preferred toothpaste. I will choose Coglate Total over any other toothpaste brand for the rest of my life. That is all.
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Merry Christmas to Me!
My first Christmas Gift: Air Canada flights 869 and 793 from London Heathrow to Toronto Pearson and from Toronto to Los Angeles, respectively. These two flights enabled me to be back home in LA on time for Christmas eve and day. Thanks AC, you da best.
My second Christmas Gift: My two friends Sharon and Manisha surprised me at the airport with a beautiful hand-made Welcome Home sign. I...
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L'Etranger
I read ‘The Stranger’ by Albert Camus in high school and loved it. Now I get to read it in French for my French III class. I’m excited. Really, I am.
Not okay.
Stuck in London. First flight (which was supposed to depart yesterday) was canceled. Can’t go to Montreal to visit my best friend of 18.5 years who is moving to Australia for 8 months in January and who I will now not be able to see for at least a year and half. Was booked on a flight on the 25th which would have meant spending the entirety of Christmas in airports/flying, but am thankfully...
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Because the weather is the best conversation... →
Seems that I’m leaving just in time to avoid the crazy snow/ice that is headed toward UK. Granted, I’ll also be missing the white Christmas that everyone here is excited about.
Montreal forecast: an expected -5° C for my arrival on Tuesday.
LA extended forecast: approximately 15°C upon return next Friday.
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I have the rest of my paper to write
I don’t remember the last time my camera was not with me in my bag/purse/pocket. iPhoto tells you how many photos you have in each “event” and I realize that I really, really took a lot of photos since I’ve been abroad. Let’s play the numbers game. Please note that these figures represent those photos I did decide to keep. Many have already been deleted. Also note...
Let's Play the Favorite Game
I was thinking today about who my favorite painters were…
In no particular order:
Frida Kahlo
David Hockney
Georgia O’Keefe
Auguste Renoir
Eduoard Manet
Anselm Kiefer
Salvador Dali
Edgar Degas
Robert Rauschenburg
Roy Lichtenstein
William Turner
Vincent Van Gogh
Rembrandt Van Rijk
Johannes Vermeer
Caravaggio
Artemesia Gentileschi
Gustav Klimt
Pablo Picasso
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I don't normally indulge in this kind of thinking,...
teaandbump-its:
In exactly one month, I will be back in Los Angeles, moved in to my new apartment and starting the first day of the second round of junior year classes. What? Who? How? What is this again?
True Words. :) / :(
The Decision Has Been Made: UK Education Fees... →
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