I started a new book today. I love it when reading something makes me want to explore more. Really want to join a book club…are there any in NYC who are reading The Marriage Plot now?
I’ve seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.
—Ernest Hemingway, A Movable Feast
Rooney Mara Photographed by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott for the November Issue of Vogue
at the ukraininan institute of america
amazing brunch and veggies. obssessed
back in the city. can’t complain too much about life right now - it’s filled with good friends, good food, good times.
it’s also 3am and i can maybe sleep in tomorrow! game day!
The air bites shrewdly; it is very cold.
—Hamlet, Act 1 Scene 4
well here it is. today is 0. it’s slightly anti-climactic. i’m more excited about the fact that for the first time in forever, i was able to rise up from a bridge to a wheel. it was all in the hand placement and about muscle-memory. apparently, my muscles don’t remember this. because the hand placement was all wrong before and i was never this solid when up. it took the third in the series before i was able to do it, but i did. and then once i was up, it was so easy. i felt weightless. that was definitely an achievement. and i knew today was going to be the day because i felt (and still feel) stronger than ever. i can feel the individual muscles in my back and arms and legs…each one that has been worked out like it’s never been worked before.
here’s to strength: physical, mental, and emotional strength. i have it all now. and that’s why 0 doesn’t matter to me today. que sera sera.
it’s going to be a good weekend.
TEXTBOOK: WHAT WOULD DOMINIQUE FRANCON WEAR?
Dominique Francon is the heroine of The Fountainhead and seems to be the only woman in the world made for the protagonist and architect Howard Roark. Likewise, he seems to be the only man for her. You know, it’s funny, both Howard and Dominique have this contempt for people around…
