What's a Girl To Do?

I want animals on stunt bikes in my next video!

Did I Step On Your Trumpet?

Great song, so-so video.

New template

Sorry, I was tired of the old one. I also had fun picking fonts and colours for this one.

Two unrelated thoughts

1) The picture below is of two delicious vegan pumpkin-walnut muffins that Mana and I enjoyed at a really cool cafe in Davis Square. It's called Diesel, and it's one of my favourite places to go in Cambridge. It has good sandwiches, vegan baked goods, interesting art, and a pool table; also, there are always people there drawing comics, designing buildings, doing graphic design work, or doing other interesting, artistic things.

2) For lack of better things to do, I have been reading an insane amount this summer. So far (since school let out,) I have read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Persepolis, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Persepolis 2, and The Book Thief, and I have started reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Schindler's List, and Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States. Why all the Harry Potter? I haven't read these books in an incredibly long time, and so I figured maybe I should read all of them before the new one comes out. I know that's kind of dorky, but it's nice to have something easy and fun to read when you need a break from books about war and the Holocaust.

Rosetta Stone

My big project this summer is learning French, so that I can go straight into French 3 next year. We recently bought the Rosetta Stone program, and it is so much fun. My mom is practicing her French as well, and although right now it's kind of easy, we've started learning the past tense, so that should be very helpful. The only downside to the Rosetta Stone is the alarming number of images of horses being abused (people racing them, falling off of them, etc,) but other than that, it's great.

Yesterday I had another fun day. (I'm sorry to bother you with all this stuff; I've recently realized that it falls under the "no one cares what you had for lunch" category. It's mostly for me, so that I can remember all of this.) We took Lulu for a long walk in the morning, and then (after dropping her at home) we took another nice walk to the Buddhist Cultural Center for lunch, which is one of my favourite places to eat in Cambridge. The food is really simple and delicious, and it's different every day. Yesterday we had brown rice, bean curd, cabbage, zucchini, and mixed vegetabled in a light sauce. We also had a pot of jasmine tea, which was a little strong, but still good. After that, we walked to Harvard Square to see "Golden Door," which I enjoyed. At first I thought it might be a little too historical for me, because I don't love histoical movies, but it was great. Also, the photography was beautiful, Charlotte Gainsbourg was amazing, and it was mostly in Italian (all good reasons to see it.)
After that, we went to the library for a while, and I got a Harry Potter book in French, which I am enjoying very much. Then, we walked to the post office, and then Dado Tea, which is a very pleasant shop with good bubble tea. We went to the video store and rented "I'm Your Man" and "The Science of Sleep," and then had falafel sandwiches for dinner.
Last night, we watched "I'm Your Man," which I LOVED. See it! It's a great documentary.

More adventures

Today we hung around the house unitl 11, and then took the subway to Porter Square for lunch. I had a burrito, which was quite delicious. It had rice, beans, lettuce, and salsa on it. Then we walked around that cool Japanese mall and purchased some sunglasses and a book (Persepolis 2.) Sadly, I have now finished both of the books I brought with me, and am halfway through the one I purchased today. Oh, well. Then, we walked back to Harvard Square (which is a very enjoyable walk) and had jasmine lime tea at Peet's. This is the loveliest iced tea I've ever had, and would make very, very good bubble tea, because it the limeade in it makes it sweet, but it has this subtle jasmine flavour as well. After that, we went to the cinema and saw the movie "Once," which I thought was very sweet. Tomorrow, we may go to the pictures again to see "Golden Door," which has Charlotte Gainsbourg in it...

In Cambridge

I am currently in Cambridge visiting my grandparents, and I am having so much fun. I rode down on the bus this morning, and then went to the ICA, which is such an interesting building. Then we walked to South Station to take the bus back to the house, and the walk was very pretty, right by the water. We had dinner at Grasshopper, with the Boston Vegetarian Society, and ate a ton of delicious, completely vegan Vietnamese food. There was a buffet, and I sampled almost everything -- my favourites were the sweet-and-sour breaded gluten, the tofu with broccoli, and various breaded appetizers. I will try to post again soon...

This is a really fun website: www.librarything.com. It lets you keep track of all the books you read and rate them and stuff; I posted my library right under my profile, if anyone cares to see it.

Cartoon Me

This is from www.meez.com, a very riddiculous (but fun) website. it took me an embarrassingly long time to get this to work.