I miss tumblr so much, I cannot wait until I'm finished with the SATs. I'm visiting my favorite blogs, and it just hurts not to be able to reblog anything. This is so unhealthy!

This photo

 is simply extraordinary. i wish i was capable of taking such fantastic photos. in other news, i really would like to go back to santorini more than anything right now...

2012

I had a really nice New Years Eve with Michelle, Dani and (unexpectedly) Ryan. Ryan broke a chair at the dinner table and it was pretty funny.

the night before, I went to Fells Pt. and had a fantastic last Mediterranean meal of 2011 and it was just so beautiful out.

presents!!!!!!!!!!!! :-)

• Dani got me Abbey Road and a super special card/collage :-)))
• Michelle got me a Claddagh ring!!! ahh can you even believe that?
• Ryan promised me a bowl but never pulled through but thats ok because I never bought him incense.
• My friends are special <3

right as we waited for the ball to drop, red champagne in hand! my friends are pussies and didn't finish their drinks, so, naturally, i finished it for them. didn't even get buzzed in the slightest...

And yet, somehow, I find myself still longing after all the wrong people. I sometimes don't know what to do with myself.

I lied.

That last post will not be the last one of 2011, but this one may be.

Perhaps I shouldn't set expectations as high as these, but oh, how ideal this would be...
I don't want a boyfriend necessarily. It would be hard to have a boyfriend this late in high school because then you begin making life decisions based on him, like college etc. and I don't really want anything serious this early. Sure, I'd make exceptions, I guess, but that's just not ideal for me. I just want someone to talk to without getting the same conventional feeling I get when talking to anyone else. That's the greatest pleasure out there; talking to someone who you really want to be talking to. Those are the types of people I stay up late for, texting nasty things and silly things and just the strangest things. Fun.
I just want to pack up my things and travel the world right now. Is that bad? I want someone to travel with though.
I'm about to jump into Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis right now, and I have a feeling I'll like it. I read the introduction of this book to read a little about Kafka and he seems like a fascinating writer. For some reason, as I typed "writer", I said it in my head with a Liverpool accent.


I also got a hair cut today

I am ambivalent about it because it's so so so short for me, and I hate short hair on me, but it feels so nice and smells so nice and the ends feel so healthy, so I guess that's good. It's comforting to know that it'll grow back.
I just love having long hair so that I can cover my boobs with it when I'm in the bath tub and pretend I'm a mermaid. My nautical bathtime adventures are now put on hold... /sigh

It's allllmost time!

I love Soviet postcards.
Wishing a Happy New Year in advance!! Probably won't blog until the New Year. Crazy, right? 2011 flew by me.

I hate wearing bras unless they're the structure-less ones. I take advantage of every opportunity to not wear a bra.
This has been a lovely blog post, hasn't it?
...
I don't know what to blog about, though, so here's a cute drawing of a kitty cat and a puppy holding hands that I found on tumblr

I think it adds a nice touch to my blog, though I think I need more personalized stuff. I'll work on it.

My 2011

This is what my 2011 consisted of.

Concert I attended:

• three All Time Low shows (wow, right?), May, June, September
• Kid Cudi, July
• Fleet Foxes, September

Places I visited

• New York, NY 
• Bethany Beach, DE
• Atlantic City, NJ
• Venice, Italy
• Bari, Italy
• Olympia, Greece
• Santorini, Greece
• Mykonos, Greece
• Athens, Greece
• Corfu, Greece
• Croatia, Dubrovnik
• Georgetown, DC

Things I did for the first time

• Smoked pot
• Snuck out
• Went on a late-night adventure
• Pulled a complete all-nighter
• Went to the beach with a friend
• Kissed (this is the part where I blush)
• Went to the Renaissance festival
• Planked
• Won MVP for badminton:-)
• Died the tips of my hair
• Got henna

Songs I listened to religiously (just a taste)

• Mykonos - Fleet Foxes
• Pumped Up Kicks - Foster the People
• See the Sun - The Kooks
• Talamak, Blessa - Toro y Moi
• The Past and Pending - The Shins
• Miss You - Foster the People
• The Cascades - Fleet Foxes
• Somebody that I used to know - Gotye
• Between the Bars - Elliot Smith
• Return the Favor - All Time Low
• Luca - Brand New
• New Theory - Washed Out
• Jigsaw Falling into Place, Creep, Nude, Videotape - Radiohead
• Trapped in my Mind - Kid Cudi
• Tangerine - Led Zeppelin
• Mall & Misery - Broken Bells
• Home - Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

Movies I watched for the first time and loved

• Fight Club
• Pulp Fiction
• A Clockwork Orange
• Candy
• Blue Valentine
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (end.of.childhood)
• Breaking Dawn (ha-ha)
• Midnight in Paris
• Blow
• Sherlock Holmes (very recent)
• Virgin Suicides
• The Dreamers
• Le Dernier Jour (at least the teeny part I saw of it)

Books I read and loved

• Fight Club
• A Clockwork Orange
• The Bell Jar (very sad, however)
• Franny and Zooey
• The Great Gatsby
• Alice in Wonderland
• Lolita (I may have read it in 2010 actually but I don't particularly remember)
• Mass Psychology (...almost finished haha)

Cool things I acquired (gifts/bought for myself)

• A record player
• Many records
• Eye rings from the flea market
• Salvador Dali watch
• A hoodie with pi on it
• Penny loafers
• serpent arm cuff
• the perfect pair of dark brown riding boots
• a film camera
• an easel and oil paints
• new bike!!
• a denim vest
• several evil eyes from Greece
• Aviators
• useless, but aaawesome bras
• Cateye sunglasses
• cool European flowy pants
• ring with the Greek key
• several warm, scholarly-looking sweaters
• floral maxi-skirt
• carpet bag

Miscellaneous things I straight-up loved

• Oil painting
• Skulls
• Patterns
• Black and white
• Salvador Dali 
• Evil eyes
• Gustav Klimt
• Avocados and home-made guacamole
• Candles
• Hand rolls (sushi)
• Incense
• Francisco Lachowski
• Marijuana
• Limes and lemons
• Calculus
• Psychology

Other events I shouldn't and probably won't forget

• Meeting Jesse Eisenberg and Justin Bartha after seeing Jesses show, "Asuncion" in NYC
• The good things that happened preceding the bad
• Febuary 14th, 2011
• April 1st, 2011
• Listening to "Mykonos" as our cruise ship approached Mykonos.
• Having the first two days of school cancelled because of the "hurricane", how great was that?

And here's a tiny ""collage"" of photos as a representation, some mine, some not:

All Time Low 

harry potter.... the end

fleet foxes!

we had "pi" day at school 3.14.11 which is pretty unforgettable.

SoHo

last day of Sophomore year.

Kid Cudi y'all