This video can speak for itself, but don’t miss the comment from Dogroy1. For some reason I am horrified; even though I knew this happens all the time in the fashion industry, it’s still disgusting to see it happen before one’s very eyes. I should start a new category, “The not so beautiful human being”, where I could post idiotic endeavours of the human mind. Sigh.
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Those of you who understand even basic Danish or another language spoken in Northern Europe might enjoy this article of priceless quotes uttered by Bush. And then there is always Google Translate to turn to, as well. Do yourself a favour and put a smile on your lips today!
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Yes, a happy day it is! I received information on the hospital I will be studying at during the Spring semester and to my great surprise and relief the die was cast in my favour. This means I will be spending five months at the first-choice hospital(several more exclamation marks)!
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Four weddings and a funeral minus three weddings and a funeral equals one wedding. For the equation to be more beautiful, there should maybe be a couple of parentheses, especially if one intends to start multiplying and dividing later, but from a verbal point of view it looks better without, so let’s forget about them shall we. So, what about the wedding then? I’m getting married. My love and I got engaged last November and the wedding will take place in September this year.
I already feel the need to rant about the arrangements, but since I don’t want to kill my immediate surroundings with a never-ending flood of pink blahblah, I have decided to vent here once in a while. Fragments will not, I repeat not, join all the awful wedding blogs that are suffocating corners of the cyberspace with their similar complaints about the horrors of not finding just the perfect dress even after trying the hundredth one on in the thirtieth shop and oh-my-god-I’ve-reached-the-end-of-the-line-what-shall-I-do-oh-my-god-oh-my-god-I-can’t-get-married-I-just-caaaan’t… That’s the reality of some brides, believe it or not! Actually it is rather interesting out of a purely academic view – I wonder whether the bridezillas and their kind have already been the target of sociological research?
I might be forced to join the population of brides under investigation, but hopefully I never end up being one of the lucky sample bridezillas. So far things are looking fairly good, my groom is happy about giving input and voicing opinions – in fact he would be annoyed if I made all the decisions myself since it is supposed to be our day, not just mine – and the most important things have already been covered, but more about that later. I hope the months up until the wedding day will be as blissful as they have been so far, but one never knows what kind of a silly crisis one might end up in, because there certainly are many things that can go wrong, at least if one is to believe in articles such as “How to make the Life-Saving Wedding Day Emergency Kit”. You would not believe the things in a Kit like that! God forbid…
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First, look at La Baigneuse by Ingres whose works were presented as a bigger collection at the Louvre in 2006, here. Then look at this photograph, also called La Baigneuse, by Stéphane Lallemand. Street medicine meets street art? Medicine meets art? Who cares, the work is fantastic anyway!
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I seriously doubt that I am supposed to think of brain matter when I see this fabric, but that just happens. Apologies (?) to the designer, Pauline Gorelov.
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Today I have decided finally to start respecting copyright on the net, as well, so the visitor will have to click on the links from now on. End of discussion.
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This video, “Where the Hell is Matt (2008)”, always makes me smile, so it’s time I pass on the warmth within. Make sure to watch it in HD mode though.
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After a long stretch of complete silence in the blogosphere, I feel somewhat ready to reappear. On more than one occasion I have questioned the necessity of writing words that most likely will just float around with all the other words from all the other bloggers and my conclusion is that it indeed is necessary. Even if nobody would ever read about impressions that I have received or my opinions on whatever is the most current subject requiring my attention, I still get to close chapters somehow, finish thought processes and move on, so I will keep blogging. I will not strive for greatness, I will not demand perfection on every blog and I will not tell myself to blog if I don’t have anything to say – let that be my late new year’s resolution if this statement needs to have an official title. Fragments, be they full thoughts or new ideas still in need of growth, will keep popping into my head so I will keep steering them to this place. Happy New Year 2009!
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