winter breakfast, school research, house cleaning.

a mango and earl grey tea for my breakfast. k gave me beautiful blue and black inks from levenger, and a glass pen; the sun is shining all over the snow and the ice outside and it makes me want to just sit and draw with inks for a long time.

yesterday i spent two hours in the schlesinger library poring over the archive files of the bread & roses collective (fragile newspapers with alarmist war and strike headlines, hand-painted strike posters, transcripts of meetings), while just outside was the hasty pudding parade for woman of the year scarlett johansson. the sidewalks were all an inch deep with ruts of slush frozen into ice, so i did not venture out to see.

today: not drawing or playing video games, but reading and revising a presentation for tuesday, and cleaning the kitchen. much work to be done this weekend, and monday i am going shopping for my wedding dress.