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Chocolate Flavoured Lip Gloss

Found it at the cash counter at Shopper’s Stop - yummy!! Wanted to buy Dips a tube, but it’d disappeared yesterday. Bad luck, D!
Also have a first hour class tomorrow, in addition to FemJur. Re-reading de Beauvoir for FemJur. Want to follow it up with the 1975 Stepford Wives… wonder if I can find a [...]

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“We speak of facts, yet facts exist only partially to us if they are not repeated and re-created through emotions, thoughts and feelings“
As I read that towards the end of Reading Lolita, I thought of so many things. I’d just left a comment on S’s blog - that her memories would become more real as [...]

I’ve been found out…

…so I must be more careful!!
I had a strange experience yesterday. For the first time, I was offered, and even felt I needed, a backup to my authority in class. It’s funny how we react quite intuitively to each other; I’m glad it’s so because it kind of makes it easier to work together. At [...]

Hold my hand

We had the chicken pox together. Not surprising, since we used to play together all the time… but then, when I started wearing glasses, so did she. And we bought the same clothes without the other knowing - that was spooky. But when we were both diagnosed with epilepsy (if that’s a diagnosis!), we decided [...]

Reading Lolita in Tehran

Wonderful book. Am reading it now. Having never read Lolita, still love this book. In fact, she discusses Lolita, Gatsby, Henry James and Jane Austen. Of whom I’ve only read Austen. I’ve tried to read Lolita but I couldn’t…
It made me gag. Yeah, Lolita did. Maybe the day will come when I can get past [...]

A dance performance

I went to a dance prformance yesterday. Rajeswari Sainath was going to do a dance ballet - War and Peace - involving reinterpreting the epics and using a traditional dance form to examine contemporary events. Sounded interesting.
Disappointing.
So much breastbeating when it could have been so much more. Such a wonderful chance to stimulate the [...]