Sustained Criticism

Darling, dress in grey, and a bit of both black and white, red lips (and apropriate make-up) and United Nudes (black or very dark blue-ish) or Irregular Choices (blue-ish, depicted in an earlier post on shoes)? All shoes would be very, er, shall we say, attention-attracting (it seems I have a thing for quirky heels), the question is just which would work best. The black, perhaps?


And exam in Group Psychology December 15th. Happy Christmas, everyone! (Og sov godt, Roger!)


And what on earth possessed the commity to give Gore the Nobel Prize for Peace? His unconvenient truth has been proven faulty, at best, and has nothing, whatsoever, to do with peace. I would by far prefer him as President, but he has done nothing for peace. I'm not sure he has had any effect at all, beyond stating the blatantly obvious.

I found voting for the first time to be nothing short of a surreal experience, not because the act itself was particularly awe-inspiring, but because I felt that I left my childhood outside the hall in which I left my vote. I am employed, I am in the process of completing my final year of upper secondary, I have voted at an election, I pay taxes, I drink wine, am close to a caffein-addict (how I long to see a "Starbucks" in Oslo) and I discuss.

"Grow up!" I was told a year or so ago, and I think that the rest of the world is coming to the following consensus: Alex is a young adult. At the very least, the number of red lipsticks currently scattered about my quarters must point to a certain maturity. Perhaps the rest of my intellect is finally catching up to the portions I let grow in self-defence years ago.

Apropos red lipsticks, I have gone through quite a lot of them: Dior's is not worth a second try, MAC has good pigmentation but leaves my lips dry and brittle, Shiseido's is a deep, gorgeous red with good staying-power, Estée Lauder's is none too impressive, but works well if you need to add some darker contours, Clinique I would not been caught dead wearing on its own and Guerlain's I have not yet had occasion to try. None of them are perfect on their own, but blended together with a decent brush they work wonders.

I love "Annie Liebovitz", she takes some wonderful photographs, cliché or no cliché. And a new community I found, Zelle Icons, which is where I stole my new icon/avatar.


P.S. Darlings, please, hold your wine-glasses by the stem. Everything else looks so very, very tacky.

P.P.S I need a dress. It cannot be much shorter than knee-length. And I am looking forward to finding it. I think I might want it to go with my "glass shoes", and perhaps nude(-ish) make-up.