Socially awkward partygoers
I'm Alexandra. I'm 25 and live in the Canadian Prairies.
This is my commonplace book. I also make things.
Eve.
Albert Besnard, From Les eaux-fortes de Besnard (The etchings of Besnard), by André-Charles Coppier, Paris, 1920.
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Kate Baylay. Northern Lights by Philip Pullman.
Mrs Coulter, loosening the cramped way some roses had been bunched into a vase, saw that Lyra wasn’t moving and glanced pointedly at the door.”
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AMERICAN VERSION
FIND A CUP(?) (ANY CLEAN, CUP-LIKE INSTRUMENT WILL WORK)
FILL IT WITH TAP WATER
ADD FIVE SPOONFULS OF INSTANT ICED TEA POWDER
STIR THAT SHIT SO HARD YOU SPILL SOME ON THE COUNTER, LET GO OF THE SPOON SO YOU CAN WATCH IT SPIN
DRINK IT AND CHOKE BECAUSE IT’S TOO SWEET
POUR SOME INTO THE SINK AND ADD WATER IN HOPES THAT IT WILL TASTE ACCEPTABLE
REPEAT UNTIL YOU GET IT RIGHT
ADD ICE CUBES AND A STRAW TO ENHANCE CLASSINESS
CHINESE VERSION
GET AN OLD CERAMIC POT.
FILL THAT SHIT WITH BOILING WATER. IT HAD BETTER BURN YOU, THAT’S HOW HOT.
FIND SOME FUCKING TEA LEAVES. JASMINE, GREEN, OOLONG, WHATEVER. GET THE RIGHT FENG SHUI GOING ON WHILE YOU PREPARE IT.
JUST SCOOP IT UP ON YOUR HAND. THAT’S RIGHT, ADD SOME FLOWERS FROM YOUR BACK YARD IF YOU WANT EXTRA FLAVOR IN YOUR SHIT.
LET THAT SIT FOR A BIT. ENJOY THE SMELLS.
POUR TEA INTO A SMALL ASS CERAMIC CUP WITH NO HANDLES.
PUT ONE HAND UNDER CUP AND HOLD WITH THE OTHER. SNIFF THE TEA A FEW TIMES. APPRECIATE IT. THEN TAKE THE FIRST DAMN SIP.
DON’T YOU DARE ADD SUGAR.
GAN MOTHERFUCKING BEI.
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The danger of eating mice is that your cat might run after them.
Cham, from Album du siège : recueil de caricatures publiées pendant le siège dans le Charivari (Album of the siege: a collection of caricatures published in the Charivari during the siege of Paris), by Cham and Daumier, Paris, circa 1871 (?).
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