Author: Carina

The Pleasure of Leaving

I flew in from Taipei 18 hours ago and I'm still not quite sure if I've righted myself just yet. There is no time difference between Manila and Taipei, but I found myself still awake at 4 a.m., still coated with sleep by the time I woke up at around 2 in the afternoon. I […]

The Sunday Currently Vol. 25

Ah, TSC. The only constant, it seems, on this blog. Reading I’ve been shuffling between depressing fanfic, Maggie Stiefvater’s The Raven Boys, Doug Dorst and J.J. Abrams’ S (still!!!), and Barry Schwabsky’s Words For Art, which is pretty amazing but can only be taken by my pea brain in small doses. Very tempted to start […]

On Birthdays

If you’ve known me long enough, you’d probably know that I don’t really like birthdays. Like Garfield hates Mondays, I have a certain aversion to birthdays. It’s not exactly a “woe-is-me, why was I born” type of feeling—though, it’s a valid question, to be fair—but I’ve associated “unfortunate circumstances beyond my control” with my birthday. […]

The Sunday Currently Vol. 24

Reading Still in the middle of S, which I’ve woefully abandoned, but I’ve started on Maggie Steifvater’s The Raven Cycle (first book’s The Raven Boys) because I found a rumor that it was based on 1D fanfic. The rumor turned out to be false, of course—M.S. reblogged my unwitting self and exposed me as a […]

Mix: September

Posted as promised yesterday, although this is super late since I tend to post “month mixes” on the last days of the previous month. Oh well. Sorry? I still listen to this mix a lot anyway, so I suppose it still counts as current. Just a few songs; I haven’t been very exciting musically lately […]