A woman you should know...

Fashion icon: Jessa Johansson.

Me and my two best girls from my student hall (lets code name them Black Velvet and the Rage- explanations to come), have been obsessed with the tv show Girls ever since we all fell into a state of melancholy due to boy troubles and curled up in Black Velvet’s bed with green tea, almonds, chocolate and a lap top late one night. This developed into a sort of habit, nay, tradition for much of the first semester. We went at it slowly, an episode or two a week, quite at random. Perhaps we’d settle into it at 1:30 after a night on the town or on lazy sundays when there was nothing to do.

Thus began my love affair with Jessa Johansson (played by Jemima Kirk)- the eratic, exotic, at first annoying then suddenly encapsulating character from Britain who comes to live in New York with her cutesy cousin Shoshanna.

Jessa is indeed an adventurous woman. She has style (which is what I love most about her- the things she wears) and says the darnedest things. Jessa is cynical and bitter but cares for her loved ones despite everybody’s flaws in the show.

Jessa has droopy eyes and the best lips for lip stick. She does what she pleases and is a little lost, a little angry, a little sexually adventurous and a little over opinionated but who doesn’t love a sassy controversial character?! Every work of art needs one and I don’t doubt Girls is a work of art when compared to other shows.

Her hair is SO long I would like to have it VERY much.
Her boho-chic style is seductive as hell.

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First semester done and dusted.

So my first semester on university is officially over. I had my last exam today (philosophy- critical thinking- sand paper on my brain. Praise buddha its finished!) and I have done much much much and met many many many people. Even though I’m still in the town I’ve grown up in and my mother and friends still live here but its as though I’m in a youth hostel or a school camp in Europe or Canada or somewhere homely like that. I’ve failed to write as vigorously as I’d hoped but that was predictable.

There have been parties and fines, drinking (the drinking culture here is beyond me), road trips, I did the 48 hour film festival, went to a strip club, built forts and giant beds, participated in quizzes, floor activities like lazer tag, movie nights, broke into the gardens in the middle of the night, been kicked out of a karaoke club (not something to be proud of but something to note for sure), had the best chats I’ve ever had with people and on the whole rolled through my first semester as a scarfie should. Its been classic and I’m super stoked to have had the typical student experience.

English is definitely my jam and I can’t wait for controversial classics next semester!!!
The exam went well I like to think- Hamlet, The Bloody Chamber, Sonnets, Chaucer and Pride and Prejudice. English involves alot of sex. Its good fun.

Hated philosophy and gender though but its all a learning curve.

I’ve made three extremely close girlfriends and we have made a tradition of nestling down in a bed and watching an episode of GIRLS, my new favorite show. I reckon a post on my favorite character is called for.

On the whole, I am relieved to have moved the way I have through the beginning of something so alien to me and don’t regret a single shenanigan. They have all been pretty golden.


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