This blog will be divided into three sections (for now...). My adventures in food, my adventures in books/movies/television, & my adventures in my life in general (including college, unschooling, sorority life, and...everything). I'd make multiple blogs but that really seems a bit ambitious at this point, so I'll just tag everything accordingly and maybe in the future, if I keep at it, actually divide the blogs up.
Backstory-- I'm a 23-year-old Californian native who has been unschooled most of her life (I was a 1st grade dropout). I still consider myself an unschooler at this point, although you could call me a homeschooling alum as well. I go to a college near home where I'm double majoring in Drama and History (about to start my senior -- well, supersenior -- year), I'm in a sorority which is a very important part of my life (living in the chapter house for the 2nd year, multiple officer positions in the chapter, and I'm on the campus Panhellenic executive board). I have an older sister and a younger sister, a mother and father who are remarkably awesome, four finches that are actually my mother's, and an unabashedly extreme amount of pretentiousness.
Some of my favorite books include The Little Prince, The Phantom Tollbooth, The Great Gatsby, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Lolita, Captains Courageous, and Pride & Prejudice. Some of my favorite authors, generally, include Agatha Christie, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jane Austen, Vladimir Nabokov, Diana Wynne Jones, and Patrick O'Brian.
Some of my favorite music that doesn't come from theatre or opera includes: Adele, Taylor Swift (and I'm not ashamed to admit it), the Beatles, The Boy Least Likely To, Camera Obscura, Rufus Wainwright, Leonard Cohen, Madeleine Peyroux, Au Revoir Simone, and Dar Williams.
Some of my favorite musicals include: Pacific Overtures, A Little Night Music, Assassins, Fiddler on the Roof, The Spitfire Grill, The Secret Garden, Passing Strange, South Pacific, West Side Story, The Light in the Piazza, and Man of La Mancha. Some favorite plays include Proof, How I Learned to Drive, Wit, Cyrano de Bergerac, Macbeth, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, and Arcadia. Favorite operas include La Traviata, Turandot, and Madama Butterfly.
I'm vegetarian (5 months & 2 weeks, so I think I get to actually use the label now), but I can't really cook at all. I'm terrified of all things kitcheny. I can assemble -- I can make salads, sandwiches, anything in the microwave -- but for some reason I'm paranoid about actually...cooking. So I'm going to try to change that, because these recipes I keep finding on vegan blogs sound a lot better than non-stop empty burgers at In N Out, and I want to spend less money and lose more weight and generally stop being so faily, come fall quarter - which starts in 1 month. So I'm going to try to teach myself how to cook some easy recipes, and take photos and put them on here with links to the recipes, basically. That's the adventures in food part.
The adventures in books etc part is because I used to have another blog on another provider, called Stored Thought, which was solely book reviews & thoughts on literature. It's long past dead, though I might repost here some reviews I had there, but I still have opinions on books (inevitably), as well as on movies, theatre, tv, and other reviewable kinds of artforms like that. And they'll go here. Informal as well as more officially reviewy things.
The adventures in life is just exactly what it sounds like. It might not be very exciting, but it's my life and really, I think it's pretty different from a lot of people's.
Listening: Dar Williams, "Southern California Wants to Be Western New York"
Reading: Shadowheart, by Tad Williams (#4 of the Shadowmarch "trilogy")
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