shopaholic

I never thought I was a shopaholic.  But the past few weeks I've really come to understand its true meaning.  Unfortunately for my bank account, I have found that online shopping really helps me destress.  Orders from this past week include two pairs of flats, a mohair cardi, a few blouses and....two pairs of jeggings*.  And about the jeggings, let me just say this: I have seen the light.  THEY ARE MY FAVORITE and I want to wear them all the time.

With all the online shopping from the past week, I have come across these boots.  Sadly, I can't afford them right now, but aren't they incredible?

J. Crew Studded Platform Booties

*I used to think jeggings were gross, but then I realized that if you invest in a high-quality pair, they can actually look really good.  I guess I was just seeing too many people with JCPenny jeggings beforehand.

paris in the fall

Satisfying my overwhelming wanderlust by looking at these pictures of Paris last fall.  Enjoy.

little homemaker

I love cooking and unfortunately I haven't been able to do much of it the past month because of this super intensive LSAT prep course I am taking.  The class is from 5:30- 9 three nights a week, and considering I have two other night classes during the week...well, there just hasn't been much time to cook.  However, I am in the final week of LSAT preparation, so I am already planning recipes I want to cook.  One thing I realized though is that I don't have an apron!  I found this one at the TerraceHill shop on etsy and thought it was precious!

Y'all will have to share with me your favorite recipes!  I love trying new recipes!

magnificent monday

It has truly been a great day.  Fall is in the air...I love it!  I don't think I have a "favorite season."  For me, the best days are the transitional days between seasons.  Those are the days that I always feel happiest and most inspired, whether it's the transition from hot to cold or cold to hot.

Speaking of inspiration, I was flipping through the September 2010 issue of InStyle and fell in LOVE with Diane von Furstenberg's home, which they featured this month.  Talk about truly inspiring...

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french cinema

Today I have been working on a 6-8 page dissertation for my French cinema class.  Most people would probably acknowledge that, along with French sophistication and bon goût, the French (generally speaking) have a snobby side (but let it be clear that I do not use the word 'snobby' in a derogatory way).  Well, being half-French and also a French major at university, I like to pretend that I have a sense for what is bon goût.  But, I will say that sitting in this coffee shop (where I am writing my paper) with a stack of books on cinéma française and a café latté, I have rarely felt more pretentious in my entire life.  Is it just me, or is there something about French cinema, for example, la nouvelle vague, which just screams pretension?!  Seriously, if you could only see the kind of stuff that is written in the books we read for this class; in just one paragraph of a source I was reading earlier today were all these words that I didn't know: dyadic, diegesis, rocentric, and heteroglossia.  What?!

But, I do not mean to rail on film intellectuals.  They are just on an entire different level of thinking than I am.  That being said, I think French cinema is on a different (usually more elevated) level than its Hollywood counterpart.  Here are some of my favorite films:

Amelie, 2001

Jean de Florette, 1986

La Vie en Rose (La Mome), 2007

Les Choristes, 2004

wish listing @ anthropologie

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