Uncreated Conscience

Firstly: Happy new year! (Even though my family does not celebrate the Lunar New Year, I figured today was an appropriate day to actually blog about a new year!) Secondly: Wow, it’s been…a long time since I’ve blogged anything substantial.

KOREAN LADY GIVING ME A FACIAL: You should take better care of your skin, especially during your student years. You don’t want to have to spend a lot of money to get your skin looking this young again. JJ: …I’m not a student. KLGMAF: No? How old are you? JJ: I’m 26. KLGMAF: Omona, omona!* [...]

PSYCHIC ROOMMATE: Today’s Google welcome is seriously trypophobic. Fair warning. JJ: Not us! We have a turkey! PSYCHIC ROOMMATE: Really?! Oh wow, Google France has a really long elaborate Stanislas Lem game. JJ: Heh, if I type Google.fr I can get to the game. It’s not as bad as you’re making it out to be. [...]

Happy Halloween, everyone! Halloween is my favourite holiday, for many reasons, not the least of which is the fact that it’s the one day I’m sanctioned to play dress up in public. If I had my druthers, everyday would be Halloween, but alas, I am not Queen of the Universe (the last I checked anyway). [...]

Today’s blog post is brought to you by the letter F: for fatigue, feelings, and feminism. So here I was, all ready to talk about my blog fatigue, when something actually sets a fire beneath my ass and gets me posting again. (Although to be fair, I have been writing; I just haven’t been blogging.)

As embarrassed as I can occasionally be about my rampant Anglophilia, I am unashamed of my obsessive fangirlism. Well, maybe not “unashamed”. More like “have come to terms with”. I am desperately uncool, but at 26, I’m okay with that. I am what the Brits might uncharitably call an “anorak” about many things, but whatever. [...]

But work has overwhelmed me. Dear people of the world looking to break into editorial: be ye warned, there be homework ahead. Lots of it. If you thought the one perks of adulthood was escaping homework, then let me disabuse you of that notion. ALL THE HOMEWORK EVER!

I don’t write much, or even take photos much in London. It’s partly due to the fact that I am no longer alone–Psychic Roommate is with me now en route to Avignon–but also partly because I’m not a tourist here. Not quite, anyway.

Allison: Did you go on the Sound of Music tour? JJ: Alas, I did not. The tour is four fucking hours long. Allison: I mean…so is the movie…can’t you only do the first half…LIKE THE MOVIE???? Why this isn’t an option in Salzburg, I will never know.