• between pages of books
  • biscuits dipped in strawberry paste
  • freshly laundered clothes
  • mushroom soup
  • petrol
    • (most curious, I know)
  • pines (detergent)
feb 6 2011 ∞
feb 7 2011 +

A

  • acrasial (lost word): ill-tempered
  • adoxography : skilled writing on an unimportant subject
  • agelast : a person who never laughs
  • atrous : jet black
  • autotonsorialist : one who cuts their own hair

B

  • brontide : the low rumbling of distant thunder

C

  • cafuné : the act of tenderly running one's fingers through someone's hair
  • capernoited : slightly intoxicated
  • charientism : an artfully veiled insult
  • clithridiate : key-hole-shaped
  • cruciverbalist : one who loves doing crossword puzzles

D

  • defenestrate : to throw out of a window
feb 4 2011 ∞
feb 4 2011 +
  • Cork, Ireland
  • Edinburgh, Scotland
  • Florence, Italy
  • London, England
  • Melbourne, Australia
  • New Orleans, U.S.A.
  • Paris, France
  • Prince Edward Island, Canada
  • Provence, France
  • Santa Fe, U.S.A.
feb 3 2011 ∞
feb 4 2011 +
  • Apple scent parfum (France)
  • Bodleian Library key chain (England)
  • dark blue sweater, now several sizes smaller (Perth, Australia)
  • Greenwich key chain (England)
  • hairbrush (Perth, Australia)
  • pocket-sized moleskine from Anna (England)
  • postcard from Katherine (U.S.A.)
  • purple Niagara Falls boy wallet (Canada)
  • purple Royal Botanic Garden Kew bookmark (England)
  • yet another key chain featuring the Great Walls of China (China)
feb 3 2011 ∞
feb 3 2011 +

10 things you want for christmas:

  • chocolate cake
  • family
  • floral print skirts
  • fruit punch
  • oxford shoes
  • period drama dvds
    • Downton Abbey
    • Sense and Sensibility (2008)

9 musicians/bands you love:

  • Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
  • Katie Melua
  • Raconteurs
  • Stacey Kent
may 15 2010 ∞
feb 4 2011 +
  • Breakfast of a Champion, Kurt Vonnegut
  • Dreams of a Dark Warrior, Kresley Cole
    • GUILTY PLEASURE THIS
  • Emma, Jane Austen
  • Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
  • Graveyard Book, the, Neil Gaiman
  • History of Love, the, Nicole Krauss
  • Illiad, the, Homer
  • Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
  • War Poems, various
feb 3 2011 ∞
feb 12 2011 +
  • Average span of a human life is 75 years.
  • Beings (or at least us humans) are attracted -- the poets say this is "falling in love" -- to other beings through any one of the three senses: olfactory, touch & sight. So this is why "love at first sight" does not apply to everyone.
  • Countries down below are part of the Oceania.
  • Different colours have different sounds.
  • Meteorites are not necessarily rocks from outer space, they could be chunks of other planets.
  • A new planetary system has been discovered.
  • Uranus is askew beyond 90 degrees -- unlike other planets; either Saturn or Jupiter is not askew at all.
  • VY Canis Majoris is the largest star in the universe so far.

Sources: Discovery Science (mostly), Disc...

feb 3 2011 ∞
feb 4 2011 +
  • another shooting star appearance, s'il vous plait
  • better grasp in French
  • The Poetry of Pablo Neruda book
  • Harry Potter DVD box set
  • iPhone
  • period drama dvds (!)
    • Downton Abbey
    • Emma, 2009
    • North and South
    • Sense and Sensibility, 2008
  • scented candles
  • sweaters
feb 3 2011 ∞
feb 3 2011 +
  • Alma Singer
  • Amélie Poulain
  • Anne Elliot
  • Anne Shirley
  • Anna (from When Marnie Was There)
  • Cassie Aisling
  • Catherine Morland
  • Éowyn of Rohan
  • Hermione Granger
  • Jane Bennet
  • Matilda
  • Meg March
  • Susan Pevensie
  • Susie Salmon
  • Violet Baudelaire
feb 3 2011 ∞
feb 6 2011 +