Uncreated Conscience

Hey everyone! It’s me, White-Harp. JJ’s been so swamped with work and other stuff lately she’s asked me to do a guest blog post for her.

To which I say: FINALLY. It’s about time. I mean, I’m totally more famous on the internet than she is. Nobody from Twitter recognizes her in person without me in front of her face. Also, speaking of Twitter, it’s time I get an account myself, no?

Note from JJ: Not on your life.

Anyway, yesterday Psychic Roommate asked JJ if she could take me out for the day. I gave JJ my best puppy-eyed expression and she agreed. Yes! JJ never takes me anywhere. Besides, Psychic Roommate’s pretty cool and she lets me do stuff. I’m not a baby, despite what JJ says on Facebook.

White-Harp is spending the day with Psychic Roommate. I feel like an anxious mama sending her kid off to school for the first time.

Pffft, whatever. Psychic Roommate took really good care of me. No worries. Besides, if anything had happened, JJ would have dumped her body into the East River.

Photos under the cut!

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How on earth did it get to be Friday again without me blogging? I AM A BAD BLOGGER ACK. It seems as though I am only able to consistently do Photo Fridays, which is pretty terrible. Anyway, this week’s theme is fashion (especially shoes). Also, Karen Healey‘s signing at Books of Wonder.

Teal with Envy

You will see a lot of these shoes in this post. Because they're amazing.

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Poor White-Harp. It’s been so long since I’ve given her a bath that she’s now kind of a Dingy Grey Harp. I did promise to give her a bath for her birthday (which was Wednesday), but I was a bad JJ and went gallivanting off to Lou Reed Girlfriend‘s apartment instead. Sorry!

White-Harp is displeased with me. Mea culpa, mea culpa!

Anyway, I made good on my promise today and now we have a clean Harp! And pictures to prove it! Yes, the people at the laundromat did give me strange looks for taking photos of dirty linens. All for you, internet, all for you.

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It’s been a long time since White-Harp’s reviewed any books for you via vlog. So here’s a video review for you! A twofer, as she touches a bit on THE DEMON’S COVENANT as well as THE DEMON’S LEXICON.

The truth is we meant to get this online for you in time for the ARC contest Sarah Rees Brennan ran, but White-Harp thought sleeping in bed was preferable to shooting while I thought reading my brains out for work was probably wiser than editing/animating. Nevertheless! We are finished! Enjoy!

I’ve been thinking a lot about romance lately, for no particular reason, but partly due to the fact that I have a strange relationship with the romance genre. I adore love stories, admire the readership, but have not yet read a romance novel I’ve liked. In fact, I haven’t read too many love stories I’ve liked either.

Photo credit to Color Me Katie, whose blog you should all put on your readers immediately.

I am, at heart, an incurable romantic, although it may not be very obvious to those who don’t know me well. I am moved to emotion quite easily and often cry at movies. You wouldn’t believe how much I SOBBED during Wall·E. SOBBED. And the first 10 minutes of Up. Hell, I think every Pixar film has made me cry at some point. But I digress.

I’m less sentimental when it comes to books, but it’s not like they won’t bring tears to my eyes. It’s just that I think it’s a little harder to portray earnest emotion with words than in images. Not impossible, but it’s harder for me to buy it.

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I have returned from Cancún with some color in my skin and a love of Mexico. I had never been before, which is sad for a southern California native. I mean, driving to Tijuana is practically a rite of passage!

White-Harp & I are on the beach in Cancun!

The water in the Caribbean is unreal. Surely a turquoise that beautiful cannot exist in nature! I took a million photos of just the ocean itself. I was thoroughly enchanted by Mexico and I was most excited to be able to visit Chichen Itza. My father went to Cancún for the fruity tropical drinks and the swim-up bar. My brother went to go snorkeling. My mother went to enjoy the natural beauty. I went to visit Mayan ruins.

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Because I am sappy and because I have the most adorable Teddy Bear in the world who needs to be told he’s loved with similar levels of cuteness.

I love you, Teddy Bear.