6th is a little tricky, coming from Andrew (Foo): he’s set up a blood donation appointment for himself back in Singapore! Singaporeans can do so online here.
For college students in the USA, the Red Cross comes pretty often to Tufts—I did it once, and tried doing it multiple times after, but kept getting thwarted because either (a) my veins were too small and hard to see, and they didn’t want to take a chance on them (!), or (b) I’d travelled too much in the past year and been in risky European countries (ahem ahem, England) for more than three months. Something like that.
For the UK, there is the National Blood Service. And I think I used to get fliers in the mail whenever donation drives were happening in the neighborhood.
When do you get to give away something so vital to life that your body will make more of anyway!
The video is for emotional blackmail, as Andrew says.
The Elephant and The Balloon, from Black Books.
Best. Children’s book. Ever.
John Mayer ripping up “Gravity” and “I’ve Got Dreams.” Dug this up from the recesses of my hard drive. Couldn’t stop filming for 8 and a half minutes. Enjoy.
Three Home Bases
About to embark on a flight journey that’ll have me touch down in all three of my home bases!
Best part is, I get to do it again in a week. ;)
USA->UK->SG
I promise to return to writing and photo posting when I reach home. It’s been a PACKED Fall!
I have to get up at silly o’clock.
Tom Waters, on having to be up early the next day.
Needless to say, as a fellow non-morning person/morning-person-in-training novice, I sympathize. Tom and I have had multiple conversations about this…
Biblical Humour
- (On the possibility of a volcano erupting when Tom flies over to New York City, and stops over at Reykjavik)
- Ellen: "No one knows the time or the hour."
- (laughs at her own joke)
- Ellen: I'm funny.
I know you’re a safe driver - you’re very good at it and all - but the style is curious.
Relationship Chat with a PPEist
- Ellen: It'd be nice to be with someone in the same city - a foreign concept.
- Tom: It'd be quite hard to be in love with a foreign concept. I'm dating a German idea: Bravery. Last week, I broke up with Liberty of the Individual
- (How Tom comes up with these things, I will never know.)
Birthday Wit
- (A bunch of us are hanging out at Will's house, after a very filling Italian pizza dinner in Cowley, in honour of Solomon's birthday. By some miracle, most of us manage to get down some cake as well. When Will is asked if he'd like seconds, he declines, unsurprisingly.)
- Solomon: Do you abdi-cake?
Emma Watson Photographed for the July Issue of Vogue by Mario Testino
In hopes of restoring some sanity to her schedule, she will go back to school in the fall somewhere closer to home.
I’ve been increasingly impressed by this young lady over the years, and I’m well excited that she’s going to be at Oxford in the fall. Hope those six-week breaks + long vac help with making and promoting great films/fashion!
Source: Vogue
