I just remembered that for some reason. Here's a funny old cat picture:
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Life: Ok. Stuff I like.
- This blog is named after my cat, Cleo, who is perfect and beautiful in every way. Here is a picture:
She is a ten-year old Himalayen mix and my favorite thing ever. She's living at my apartment illegally right now. Technically.
- And, if you couldn't guess, the blog is also named after my favorite drink and desire to own a coffee shop/bookstore one day. Today is also National Coffee Day, so it is very special that I created the blog today. I shall never forget. I think I make a great, strong cup of coffee and I own a espresso machine of which I recently replaced the frothing pitcher, so I can make lattes and cappuccinos like a beast. While I am an advocate of the independent coffee shop and hate paying for an expensive coffee that I can make at home myself, I do like Starbucks. I like it way too much and feel like a hypocrite all the time : / . But such is life.
- I am a voracious reader. I love a lot of books, but I definitely have a bent towards Victorian Gothic and anything Jonathan Safran Foer and biography. My favorite book of all time is Jane Eyre. When I told my boyfriend that we should be Jane and Mr Rochester for Halloween this year, he declined and politely explained that he didn't think a lot of people would understand the reference, which is one of the prices I pay living in a small town in Alabama. I also loved Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Foer. I could seriously talk about books forever and I'll try and keep this brief for today. But, reader, you should get your hands on Karen Russell's St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves because it is fantastic and enchanting and grotesque in its own way; it's really lovely--a collection of "fairy tales" for adults. And a couple of them take place in Everglades-ish, Florida where the swamp culture bubbles into the literature. Immerse yourself! Of course, I love Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings, who doesn't? I just finished reading the Bronte biography, The Bronte Myth, by Lucasta Miller and it was tremendous. Eye-opening and matter-of-fact, but entertaining as well in the voice of Miller. And now, I'm reading Will in the World which is a speculative biography of William Shakespeare. It's fun so far and interesting, but lacking in a bibliography, so I'm taking it with a grain of salt, obviously. I was very close to becoming an English Literature major with as much emphasis on Shakespeare as possible. And maybe I'll do that too. Eventually.
Other Things I LOVE:
- My boyfriend. Duh. We were best friends for over a year and a half and now we're together and it is wonderful and hilarious. He is a creative writing major and a great musician. I find it especially attractive when he plays the drums. He has wonderful grammar and enjoys fart jokes and lets me be a silly asshole whenever I want.
- Cats. If you like cats as well (to an "unhealthy degree") go here because it is adorable and accurate http://catversushuman.blogspot.com/
- Movies.
- Music. Duh. Will discuss further on new entry
- Decorating/Interior design. People are extremely reactive to light and color and texture and I am not exempt. No matter how broke I am, I can get creative and make a space my own. More on this later.
- House plants. haha.
- Crossword puzzles. Holy crap, I love crossword puzzles, you guys. I like to think it helps my vocabulary.
- Travel: have been to London, Paris, Seoul, Buenos Aires, Chicago, New York, Phoenix, Disney World (but not Harry Potter World because I was 5 and it wasn't built yet), random places in Texas. And I want to go back to all of those places and others besides (especially Harry Potter World)
- I like farm animals too. But not in any weird sexual way. This is me and a goat I found on the way to the beach:
-Becky
Life: New Blog?
What an amazingly frightening experience it is to fly by the seat of your pants (what an astoundingly hilarious image that saying provokes). (My brother Luke would already be annoyed by those two adverbs. But fuck that, adverbs are fun for me) I have lately felt like my pants were flying. With me in them. And luckily my pants seem to know where they're going because I sure don't. Not yet. But maybe I can relax and enjoy that wall of air that hits so hard you lose your breath. It is odd that too much wind can have the same effect on your lungs as waves and waves of too much water. You'd think plenty of air coming at your nose would be a good thing, but oftentimes it is suffocating. They should make snorkels for that. Is that a thing? Are there people that can only breath so much air at once? Is that what happens if you breathe too much smoke for too much of your life?
Well anyway. This blog is for all my random stuff. I had a blog in Atlanta called "AtlantaReads" which was highly entertaining (adverb!) to maintain and, I hope, to read. But I have since moved from Atlanta and am back in Auburn, AL were I went to college. It was a bizarre turn of events that brought me back. I like plans and I like to stick to the plans and my chest gets tight if I veer from the plan. This can be anything as little as going out to eat with the bf instead of watching Dances with Wolves, or something much larger like, "Hey, Becky! (This is your conscience talking!) I know you had major plans to become an actress. Immediately. I know you've moved to Atlanta and have started a life and been auditioning, buuuuuuut. Wouldn't it be fun to do something else?" And I'm like, "Um. What the fuck? No." But sometimes, you can't escape something. It's very odd and difficult to explain. Because I didn't think anything, anything fulfilled me as much as acting. And I love reaching people and living another life on stage. I love characters and I love making people see glimmers of themselves in others. I got my BFA in Acting at Auburn. My parents paid lots of money for me to follow my dream. And now.......fuuuuuuuuuck.
I came back to Auburn and I was only going to stay for a week after the 4th of July. Except that week turned into two weeks. And then two weeks turned into a month. And then I had to make a serious adult, big girl panties decision. I broke my lease early and quit my Atlanta job and was homeless in Auburn for quite some time. It was scary. It's still scary. But I have an apartment now, thank God. And I've given it a lot of thought. A lot of thought. And I will be pursuing my graduate degree in speech pathology. But I have to pass the GRE first and all that fun stuff.
I'm not sure who will read this and I'm not sure if I want to post it to facebook just yet. I promise the blog entries won't always be this long. Honestly, though, I haven't written anything at all in a long time. And it's funny but it's because I'm broke. I'm insanely particular about the journals that I write in (I've kept journals almost continually since I was in 1st grade). But because I am broke and jobless (I got fired, but that's another delicious story for another time) I can't afford to even look at journals. So, this blog is free and for right now that's cool with me.
I'll be posting random shit on here. And I'm trying not to cuss so much. There might be shades of "AtlantaReads" on here, but an Auburn version, obviously. We'll just have to find out, you and I.
-Becky
Well anyway. This blog is for all my random stuff. I had a blog in Atlanta called "AtlantaReads" which was highly entertaining (adverb!) to maintain and, I hope, to read. But I have since moved from Atlanta and am back in Auburn, AL were I went to college. It was a bizarre turn of events that brought me back. I like plans and I like to stick to the plans and my chest gets tight if I veer from the plan. This can be anything as little as going out to eat with the bf instead of watching Dances with Wolves, or something much larger like, "Hey, Becky! (This is your conscience talking!) I know you had major plans to become an actress. Immediately. I know you've moved to Atlanta and have started a life and been auditioning, buuuuuuut. Wouldn't it be fun to do something else?" And I'm like, "Um. What the fuck? No." But sometimes, you can't escape something. It's very odd and difficult to explain. Because I didn't think anything, anything fulfilled me as much as acting. And I love reaching people and living another life on stage. I love characters and I love making people see glimmers of themselves in others. I got my BFA in Acting at Auburn. My parents paid lots of money for me to follow my dream. And now.......fuuuuuuuuuck.
I came back to Auburn and I was only going to stay for a week after the 4th of July. Except that week turned into two weeks. And then two weeks turned into a month. And then I had to make a serious adult, big girl panties decision. I broke my lease early and quit my Atlanta job and was homeless in Auburn for quite some time. It was scary. It's still scary. But I have an apartment now, thank God. And I've given it a lot of thought. A lot of thought. And I will be pursuing my graduate degree in speech pathology. But I have to pass the GRE first and all that fun stuff.
I'm not sure who will read this and I'm not sure if I want to post it to facebook just yet. I promise the blog entries won't always be this long. Honestly, though, I haven't written anything at all in a long time. And it's funny but it's because I'm broke. I'm insanely particular about the journals that I write in (I've kept journals almost continually since I was in 1st grade). But because I am broke and jobless (I got fired, but that's another delicious story for another time) I can't afford to even look at journals. So, this blog is free and for right now that's cool with me.
I'll be posting random shit on here. And I'm trying not to cuss so much. There might be shades of "AtlantaReads" on here, but an Auburn version, obviously. We'll just have to find out, you and I.
-Becky
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