"Lived and learned from fools and from sages"

I am suffering from author's block, if you will. An annoying, troublesome creative slump. The part of my brain that loved the click of the camera and the tac-tac-tac of a keyboard has fled the coop and is probably drunk in a rundown bar while I'm using my keyboard as dust gatherer. I sometimes feel as if I can hear my brain sloshing around and slowly dripping out through the boredom cracks in my skull.

Does anyone have a cure for the creative equivalent of being down in the dumps? If yes, please write down on post-it and send by carrier pigeon. They'll know where to find me.


On this background, I've been trying to distract myself/entice my neurons with different activities:

♥ my birthday in May (feeling too old in my own skin but still too young at the same time, how is that possible?) . Brought good times and great gifts, so I can't complain too much about getting old.
♥ experiments in the kitchen which did not end in fires, surprisingly, and the realization I can make delicious stuffed peppers and chocolate muffins.
♥ painted Easter eggs with mother and ate abnormal amounts of chocolate that holiday and every other holiday from New Year's until now.
♥ Bike-walked. Not as much as I want, but still. It was fun!
♥ Saw Cluj for the first time and Sinaia for the one billionth time. Remembered why I love road trips and late nights spent in the company of lovely people.
♥ been losing sleep. Dreaming about Zombie Apocalypses and making plans of action for when that time comes (rules include: cardio and shotguns. Thanks Zombieland!)
♥ Watched all of Supernatural. All of 30 Rock (I thought I hated it. It was a shock to realize I actually don't. I call this the power of Tina Fey). And started M.A.S.H. and Doctor Who. Hmmm, I am slowly understanding why I've been losing sleep ...
♥ Tried the wind-swept style. And the Cousin It of Adams Family fame style. Changed hair color with every coloring and ended up slightly amber. I am now sporting what I call "Fake Red Head Who Has No Time to Dye Her Hair and Whose Hairdresser Is On Holiday" style. It works for me!
♥ Girls' night out, of course.
♥ Started taking the whole vegetarian thing very seriously. And the coffee addict thing too.
♥ Also started taking football (yes, football, not soccer, thank you very much!) very seriously
♥ Saw Aerosmith live just 2 days ago. Spent time afterward dreaming of sequined blazers and dancing to Dude Looks Like a Lady as these two things seem to work together. Steven Tyler is one ball of rock-and-roll, crazy energy.

♥ ... O yeah, started exams. Thinking I won't finish them alive, if my pathology book has anything to say about it.


All in all, it has not been a boring time! Fingers crossed for my inspiration and if you need me I'll be off re-enacting the Glee dance scenes and dreaming of future times when school books will be locked in dark places and days will be nothing more than vodka-orange glasses and lazy reading on picnic blankets.

:)

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Song of the Moment: Kansas - Carry On My Wayward Son
(Supernatural reference FTW!)

"Hello, Oompa Loompas of science!"

One good thing about not having an sort of internet (Twitter on my phone does not count, okay?) is that I've been reading quite a lot lately, a pleasure that had been lost between checking e-mails a billion times of day and saving any sort of Sherlock Holmes graphics and Star Trek gifs I can find on Tumblr. Ewan McEwan, I love how you make me drool over your words and Chuck Palahniuk, your brain is a scary yet wonderful place!

Power of concentration, I'm doing it wrong.

I've also managed to run through all the Oscar movies of the year (minus A Single Man because the gods don't want me to bask in the awesomeness that is a Tom Ford/Colin - I love you Mister Darcy - Firth masterpiece) and all the seasons of The Big Bang Theory (Sheldon Cooper, you are insane but I love you).

Surprisingly, my sleeping hours have been slightly chaotic. It's not my fault books get interesting right before bedtime. And it's not my fault they're running Star Trek: The Original Series only at night on tv, I do not have the will to say no to Spock.

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Spare time makes the mind go geekier and geekier apparently and makes me also want to screencap every movie I own. And this post is brought to you just by that!

I watched Nine some time ago and liked it. I didn't love it because it disappointed in certain departments (it lacked cohesiveness and focus, the songs weren't as strong as I was expecting, the characters weren't very into character), because maybe I loved Fellini's 8 1/2 Weeks too much and this "adaptation" just grazed the surface.

But. I am sucker for beautiful images and, like a magpie loves shiny things for their shiny and not their total worth, I fell in love with the visuals of this film. Give me anything resembling Broadway and I melt like a chocolate ice cream in the sun.


Enjoy the beautiful photos and hopefully next time I'll be posting here from my own (my preciousssss....) internet connection and stop stealing it from where I can. Fingers crossed!

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Overture Delle Donne



"Kiss your fevered little brow, Pinch your cheeks till you say ow"
A Call from the Vatican (Penelope Cruz)



"So you little Italian devils, You want to know about love? Saraghina will tell you.
If you want to make a woman happy, you lie on what you’re born with"
Be Italian (Fergie)



"I love the dark handsome guys with their skinny little ties dressing mod looking out of sight
I love to watch them as they cruise with their pointy leather shoes wearing shades in the middle of the nights"
Cinema Italiano (Kate Hudson)



"Now take it right between your thighs, you grabbed for everything, my friend,
but don't you see that in the end there will be nothing left of me?"
Take It All (Marion Cotillard)




Finale

screencaps by me

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Song of the Day:
Florence and the Machine & Dizzy Rascal - You've Got the Love

"But in the years that passed since I saw you last you haven't moved an inch "

No I am not dead. Just internetless for about 3 weeks now, which feels a bit like dead but not quite. It's painful and slightly nerve wrecking but, fingers and toes and whatever-can-be-crossed crossed, this place will be up and running soon (if not by next week, I'm sure I can find some sacrificial goats somewhere around here).

(Also, whoever said letting go - albeit forcefully - of any sort of addiction gets easier as time passes is a big fat liar who needs to be hit over the head with a pillow stuffed with bricks!)

(Did get a lot of reading done. That is a little sort of soothing victory.)

(Still need internet like air though.)

"There are times when I'm so impossible"

Here's something to make my day. I got this sweet award from an even sweeter girl, Ruxandra at Daydreamer. Thanks so much doll, a lot of e-hugs going your way!

I have to share 10 facts about me, so here they are:

1. English is my second language but I swear that sometimes it's tied for first place with Romanian. I've been speaking English since I was 5 years old and for me it doesn't matter which of them I choose to speak cause it's just the same for me. Strangely, I also prefer British English and can always whip out the posh accent, especially for exams ;)

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2. Even though I'm a creature of comfort, I do adore all things posh. Strong perfumes, velvet pillows, expensive dark chocolate, feathers and pearls, silk neck ties, big chunky cocktail rings, leather bound books. Love them!

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3. I am such a book worm. I love curling up on my bed with a good book. Surprisingly, I wasn't an avid reader when I was a child but along came highschool and bam! the book worm in me pounced on anything it could get its greedy little hands on. Right now I am in love with F. Scott FItzgerard and Chuck Palahniuk.

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4. I am walking example of the "sadistic" med student type. I actually did a little victory dance in the hospital hallway when I learned that I could watch a brain tumor operation. And I get excited at the mention of "surgery" or "blood"

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5. And I am afraid of needles. Ironic, n'est pas?

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6. I think I fall in love with cute strangers every day. On the bus, at school, at a cafe. I think it's because I've watched too many romantic movies when growing up.

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7. I'm a very touchy-feely person. I hug, I cuddle, I hold hands, I smooch, I kiss, I pounce, I snuggle, I cling etcetera.

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8. I am the kind of person that would probably forget to pay the water bill or electrical bill because she bought shoes with that money. Thank god I love candle light and have best friends who will always take me in for a hot shower.

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9. I can watch the same movie or listen to the same song over and over again. I love getting everything I can from it, watching and listening until I am sure I got everything it had to offer. And then I might not bother with it for months or years to come.

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10. I love and am attracted like crazy to sparkly and shiny things. Like a fish. Or a magpie. That goes "Ooooooh, shiny!!" and gets this glazed look in its eyes.

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Song of the Day: The All-American Rejects - The Wind Blows
(Thanks to Lilianne for recommending this song, it's my new favorite for the week!)

"This was no accident, it was a therapeutic chain of events"

Very tired. But it's that nice tired, the good kind that leaves your bones feeling soft with amusement and excitement. I find it amusing how last I didn't have things with which to fill out empty hours and this week I am running around like crazy and living off coffee and a few hours of sleep.

New faces. New places and activities. New delight that makes your toes curl. New smiles shared over cans of beer and cards. New sleepless nights and new laughs that still echo in your ears even after the lights are off.

Yeah, I could get used to this :)

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Monday:


Whatever people tell you, I was not falling off!!








Only a few things are better than a day in the park with bike rides and (pink!) cotton candy and improvised picnics at sunset.

And that is a day like that that continues with a night spent playing card games, pretending to be murderers and laughing until your cheeks hurt.





What site am I on here? Twitter, what else? :))



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Song of the Day: Noisettes - Never Forget You

"Comedy's a dead art form. Now tragedy, that's funny."

It is always a good sign while packing when you can close your luggage without needing to sit down on it. In my world anyway that is a little sort of victory :)

If you're wondering why I'm packing? In exactly 6 hours, The Boy and I are leaving for a week of sun and fun and food and lazying around on the beautiful coast of Turkey. We plan on sleeping in like the lazy med students that we are, drinking little cocktails with umbrellas in them and watching Star Wars movies while eating yummy yummy food.

I'm not sure if I'll get my hands on any sort of Internet connection there (I will try to use my Twitter at least) so hope you all have a great summer holiday and I will see everyone in 7 days :)

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In these past few days I feel like I've been trying to do everything I've been meaning to do in the past few weeks. Feels good though :)

Many things have happened, and to the beautiful soundtrack of A Dustland Fairytale and Supermassive Black Hole. Can't wait to see what the cd skips to next.

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Saturday:
The girls and I, Yves Saint Laurent exhibit at the National Museum, diet coke, yummy pizza and walking in the desert like heat without getting sunburned. In other words, great day!!


Me, Andy and Maria in a group snuggle in front of the Atheneum.





Irina being ridiculously photogenic as usual!


I have no idea why I was laughing here.








Roaming the streets and enjoying icecream.


The search for food brings out our violent side.


I really love my city.




dress: Mango, belt: thrift, shoes & bag: Nine West.

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Sunday:
Good food, good friends, good times.


Cliche? I think so :))


Nothing says girls night out like improvised photoshoots in the evening.


Roxana and Florina looked amazing (but when don't they?)








We were cracking up cause we were taking photos in the middle of the street with people staring at us like we were crazy :))


MySpace photo time!!


I love the old city center at night, perfect to take photos!


I loved this weekend!

Me: dress: Zara, shoes: Nine West, watch: Tissot, bag: Nine West.
Florina: dress: H&M, shoes: Nine West.
Roxana: top: Killah, bag: Bata, shoes: Nine West, watch: Calvin Klein Jewels.

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Song of the Day: Pink - Funhouse