So the plan for 2011 is to be a lady of leisure.
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Lady of Leisure 2011
So the plan for 2011 is to be a lady of leisure.
Sunday, October 3, 2010
I Like
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
- My book. Still. Alice is my number one priority, although sometimes I don't treat her like that. But over the holidays I'm going to put some serious effort into getting lots of quotes and references in my moleskin. That way I'll still be on track to have a first draft done by August 2012.
- Saving up $10 - 12,000 to get to London. I've finally got two jobs that will help me get there. I'm also looking to maybe do some babysitting on Friday and Saturday nights because I'm never really doing anything except watching TV then anyway, but I'll have to get my P's first probably - unless their on the train line.
- My degree. I really want to finish my arts degree. I want to do my Masters and the Doctrate. I will be a doctor of history, and I will be a historian.
- Finish the Matador course. You've been given the opportunity to complete it, make sure you use every opportunity.
- Start an NGO/somewhere for traveller's to volunteer for free/small price (Indonesia, Africa, Thailand, Cambodia).
- Start a hostel/somewhere for traveller's to work and stay (Provincial France, Spain, Italy, Russia, Portugal, London, Greece).
- Travel around on a boat (cruise the Mediteranean, sail around Mexico).
- Buy a house. Rent it out.
- Host/write a documentary. Maybe this will lead onto to being able to interview interesting people? Like Parkinson.
- A movie for Alice. You can write it.
- Start a royalty magazine/write an article for "Royalty" or "Majesty" or any other magazine/newspaper about royalty. Perhaps you could be the royal correspondent for a newspaper?
Friday, April 16, 2010
Austen Quiz
You Scored as Emma Woodhouse Emma is possibly one of the most loyal characters of Austen, always wanting better for those around her and doing all she possibly can to make it happen. Her motives sometimes get in the way of her good intentions and her own opinions can end up ruling her actions, but she has a good heart. She loves to be social and is welcoming to most, unless they are too silly to tolerate. While she sometimes changes her behavior to make others feel comfortable, she knows who she is and is always bettering herself.
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Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Okla Elliott Interview Christopher Higgs
OE: What should young writers today study or do in order to improve their craft?
CH: Become intellectually polyamorous, cultivate an insatiable curiosity for knowledge and experience in as many different guises as you possibly can, question everything, always challenge, learn that failure and rejection are positive things, subscribe to at least three non-literary magazines in three completely different fields (for me, right now, it’s National Geographic, Juxtapose, and Wine Enthusiast – last year it was Seed, Esquire, and Art in America), forget politics: it has nothing to do with you and any time or energy you invest in it is wasted time and energy you could be using productively to learn and experience and create, do not choose sides, do not agree or disagree, embrace contradiction, watch cinema from as many different countries and time periods as you possibly can, seek out unclassifiable music, spend time in unfamiliar locations, expose yourself to new activities, go to the opera, go to the ballet, go to the planetarium, travel a lot, observe as much as you can, pay attention to the way people talk and the way people listen, eat strange food, watch at least one sporting event but instead of thinking about it as entertainment think about it as narrative, ABR = Always Be Researching, carry a notebook and pen at all times, remember it is more important to ask questions than give or receive answers, seek to open up and never close down, seek to seek, do not seek to find, fall in love with language, think obsessively about language, about words, about sentences, about paragraphs, about the sound of words, the weight of words, the shape of words, the look of words, the feel of words, the placement of words, and most importantly be your biggest advocate, think of yourself as a genius, think of yourself as an artist, think of yourself as a creator, do not despair, do not listen to criticism, do not believe naysayers, they are wrong, you are right, they are death and you are life, they destroy and you create, the world needs what you have to say.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Musings over Emily
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
In my lifetime
Adopt a child.
Get married.
Buy a house.
Live in London.
Travel through every single country in Europe.
Travel in South America.
Watch all Edward Norton films.
Peter Boxall's 1,001 Books to Read Before You Die.
Finish a university degree.
Russell Brand stand-up.
Tiffany & co. engagement ring.
Skydiving.
The Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy.
The Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia.
The Louvre in Paris, France.
Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris, France.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, USA.
The Tate Gallery in London, England.
The Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Holland.