I believe in a set of values I cannot live by. I set high goals for myself, I seek perfection, dream of exotic faraway places. But ultimately, what I long for isn't far away at all. It's in my own backyard. Imperfection charms me, familiar things move me... a celebration of what we have, instead of what we long for. That for me, is glamour. -Isabella Rossellini

SO...

• I've been looking for an apartment;
• I've been meeting new people;
• I've come to enjoy teaching;
• I've built new/better expectations of the future;
• I've decided what to do with my life (college/education wise);
• I've started studying for the vestibular;
• I'm reading an awesome book (so far), called "Crônica da Casa Assassinada" by Lúcio Cardoso;
• I went to Ouro Preto for the first time and fell completely in love. I want to move there.
• I'm looking for a better job -- I need money.
• I've been admiring the smart people I've been meeting lately.
• I've been caring less about a lot of things.

... just trying to catch myself up with what's been going on.

life.

(via Indexed)

(via Smitten/ SparklePower)

help.

"We help people when big things happen to them, when you see them getting hit by a car, when a brother or a sister or a father or a mother dies, we're there for them because we can see that death kills more than the person it takes. And yet, the people around us who die a little all the time, moment by moment, who require the least help, the smallest sacrifice, are the ones we ignore completely."

via I Wrote This For You

motivation.

My cat Sigi and Shaylow, the neighbor's dog. (Hawaii)

“ Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof."

-John Kenneth Galbraith

“ Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."

-Winston Churchill

via Notes to Self

won't be.

"You think that you're fundamentally "you".That even without three meals a day, the people around you and the things you've been exposed to, you would still be the same person with the same ideas, morals, values and attitude towards life.But you wouldn't be."

from the blog I Wrote This For You.

I almost got robbed yesterday. I'm still scared.

They ended up not taking anything and I am okay. I ran away...

remember...

originally uploaded by Roland, via Swissmiss.

Related post here, with the awesomest song on the background (it makes me want to cry; a good kind of cry.)

On a smaller note, it kind of hurts finding out an ex has moved on. Even when you no longer want him...

global pillow fight!

[Taken in Paris (France) - 13Oct07] by Philippe Leroyer

On Saturday April 4th 2009, there will be massive pillow fights in cities around the world!
Use this site to locate the nearest one.

This idea was organized by The Urban Playground Movement and here's what they had to say:

All over the world, groups like them organize free, fun, all ages, non-commercial public events. From a massive Mobile Clubbing event in a London train station to a giant pillow fight near the Eiffel Tower in Paris to a subway party beneath the streets of Toronto, it is clear that the urban playground is growing around the world, leaving more public and more social cities in its wake. This is the urban playground movement, a playful part of the larger public space movement.
One of our goals is to make these unique happenings in public space become a significant part of popular culture, partially replacing passive, non-social, branded consumption experiences like watching television, and consciously rejecting the blight on our cities caused by the endless creep of advertising into public space. The result, we hope, will be a global community of participants, not consumers, in a world where people are constantly organizing and attending these happenings in every major city in the world.
This project, Pillow Fight Day 2008, is a collaboration of many people who comprise a loose, decentralized network of urban playground event organizers all over the world.

Personally I think this is awesome and I hope people here in Brazil keep chosing to participate in fun events such as these. I'll be there! :]

listography

I love making lists...

So I bought the book Listography last year and finished filling it out in 3 days.

Luckly I found out about the website, and I've been spending a LOT of time reading other people's lists and writing my own. It's so much fun :]

I still wanna get the Love Listography one...

Love is to share, mine is for you :]

I fell in love with the video...

There are places i’ll remember all my life though some have changed. Some forever not for better, some have gone and some remain. All these places have their moments, with lovers and friends i still can recall. Some are dead and some are living - in my life i’ve loved them all.
The Beatles - In My Life

cool passtime :]

From The Fake Albums Group, found on FREEwilliamsburg.
Here are the rules:

1: Go to "Wikipedia." Hit “random... Read More”or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.

2: Go to "Random quotations"or click
http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.

3: Go to Flickr and click on “explore the last seven days”or click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

4: Use photoshop or similar to put it all together.

here's mine:

Cool, huh? Now, TRY IT!

I'd love to celebrate my birthday with cupcakes like these.

My birthday isn't til like 50 something more days.

I just want to have something fun (hopefully) to look forward to.

truth.

“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”
- Jack Kerouac

it's just the way you see the world, it's just the way you see the world...

So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.

originality in non-existent!

{via SwissMiss}

The Secret To Happiness

"The secret to happiness is to continually fall in love. With people, with ideas, with places, with things, with experiences, with moments, with traditions."

Right now I'm in love with the rain that is angrily falling outside; with the sound of the song that is calmingly playing on the radio; with the idea that I might see him again tomorrow; with the thought of consciously planning my future without rushing to it. I'm in love with the happiness of continually falling in love; with the feeling of holding my life in my own hands; with the smell of the delicious food being cooked right now. I'm in love with the brazilian way of being; I'm in love with Rio, Vitória, Carmo da Mata. I'm in love with traveling, meeting, finding, revisiting. I'm in love with Sunday's lunch traditions. But mostly, I'm still in love with him.

... although it´s never going to work.