What other people think about your job
I have an amazing life packed with massive happiness, but it sometimes… amuses me (and by "amuses" I mean "makes me even swearier than usual") to hear and read the stuff people think about photographers and writers*. But then I realised that of course I probably have similar misconceptions about all the other careers…
Trigger warning: trigger warnings
I'd never seen the phrase "trigger warning" anywhere other than Jezebel and Groupthink… until now! And it's fucking glorious:
Your best bit (TW: happiness)
Please tell me your good things.
Nails, innit
I did my nails yellow for Utopia. Your nails, please?
TW: Happiness
I haven't done this for ages, but let's do it right now!
Does anyone watch Utopia?
I just watched the first series and eps #1 and #2 of the second in 24 hours, and I have no one with whom to discuss it and IT'S SO FUCKING GOOD.
New Spanish vocab, please
I'm taking advanced Spanish and would like some new words, please. What are your favourites?
YOUR NEW BAND NAME
The colour of your knickers, and the last thing you ate. Mine's… Black Smoothie. What's yours?
Bloody hell, Suárez.
You realise people can, like, see you, don't you? BLOODY HELL.
MIDWEEK EXCELLENCE (TW: happiness)
Here are my current favourite things. I would very much like to hear yours, too.
MIDWEEK EXCELLENCE (TW: happiness)
1) I've just had the best 365 days of my life.
Your week's best bits (TW: happiness)
Here are mine:
Your week's best bits (TW: happiness)
Here are mine. What are yours?
Your week's best bits (TW: happiness)
Here are mine. What are yours?
Your weekend's best bits (TW: happiness)
Mine are as follows:
New favourite photographer #1: James Aiken
I see photographers whose work I get instantly wild about all the time. Here's one: James Aiken. You really should see his pictures nice and big (these mini versions don't do them justice at all) so do visit his website and be delighted. The colours are so rich.
Educate a foreign girl about American snow-shovelling rules
I only just found out that in the US you can be fined for not clearing your snow within a certain number of hours. I'm amazed! (I lived in America for my entire twenties but… Los Angeles. And I do live with an imported estadounidense, but he knows nothing of this snow of which I speak.)
Your top cocktail recipes, please
My dinner tonight was three sloe gin martinis and two strawberry Pop Tarts. What are your favourite cocktail recipes?
Favourite Olympic thing so far?
I love the matryoshka on the slope style course.