Things I love:
- Lucky Brand Sweet Dream Jeans--ah, indeed, they fit like a dream! And I frequently get LUCKY and find them hardly worn--perhaps even never worn since they certainly look that way-- at Buffalo Exchange for $28 bucks--wahoozicool!
- Prescriptives Classic Red Cream Liptstick--I feel like such the 1950's glamourous movie star when I wear it. Hot, baby, hot! I just found this color yesterday and will try to get a pic soon to share, as we all know how hard it is to find a good red lipstick that doesn't make one look like a clown! ETA: OK, here's a pic where I have licked off a good majority of the lipstick, but you can get an idea of what the color looks like:
- Guerlain Maxi-Lash Mascara--very pricey, but damn it rocks (and if you calculate its daily usage over 6 months, it turns out to be only 15 cents a day! Aren't I such a good rationalizer?)
- Public Libraries!!!--Thank you Benjamin Franklin! Benjamin Franklin I love thee, for you created the library!
- The following excerpts that explain the philosophy(ies) of Existentialism by George Cotkin in Existential America:
"[...] existentialism begins with Sartre's maxim that men and women everywhere are 'condemned to be free,' forced to confront the dilemma of existence, to infinitude in the face of limits. To be existential is to have those dark nights of the soul when the loneliness of existence becomes transparent and the structure of our confidence lies shattered around us. To be existential is to encounter those moments when vainglorious systems of logic totter and polite evocations of Sunday preachers fail to touch the core of being. To be existential is to wrestle with most fully with the jagged awareness of one's own finitude, with the thunderbolt fact that I will die and my death will be my own, experienced by no one else. At such moments, the abstract is rendered concrete. As novelist, Carson McCullers put it, 'Death is always the same, but each man dies in his own way.' To be existential is to recognize, in the face of all these somber truths clutched close to our own sense of being, that we must act. Despite the dread and anguish that accompany the shocking recognition of our freedom, that threaten to stall us in our tracks, we must take responsibility for our lives; we must create the world anew. To be existential is, ultimately, to join with Camus's Sisyphus in a tragic acceptance of the limitations of existence while exulting in each affirmative breath of life, in each push of the stone up the mountain.
[and that there is an...] upside to existential freedom: the freeing from the shackles of tradition, the possibility of a more authentic existence, and the headiness that comes with the freedom to create and to be creative."
(emphasis added, pp. 3 & 6)
It's so nice to focus on the things we love. :) I've been really absent from blogland lately, sorry! I'm enjoying catching up on your entries, though.
That lipstick is a great color for you, and all the redheads I know say that's a hard thing to find.
Buffalo Exchange sounds awesome. I wish Atlanta had one. :(
How's job searching coming? Knock 'em dead tomorrow!
Posted by: Courtney | May 14, 2008 at 11:04 AM