Journal created:
on 19 May 2005 (#7167760)
Updated:
on 28 December 2011
Name:
Hannah
Website:
This account is primarily for fannish activity, which I try to keep restricted to my online life. Should any of my real-life friends or acquaintances happen upon this, congratulations: you now know just how great a nerd I truly am.
My overly polysyllabic username refers to the Bluebell perfume manufactured by Penhaligon's of London. My mother used to wear it when I was a little girl, and on such occasions as my First Eucharist or a visit to the opera, she would let me dab some on my wrists. I remember thinking that the paper on the perfume box was the most perfect blue in creation: almost grey, with a hint of green, and oh-so-elegant behind the gold lettering. The scent of the perfume was divine, as well - according to Penhaligon's, bluebell is one of the most challenging scents to imitate because of its subtlety and delicacy. It's one of my clearest and fondest childhood memories, which is why I feel justified in waxing absurdly poetic about it.
Images in mood theme were all drawn by the talented and delightful
kasche.
My overly polysyllabic username refers to the Bluebell perfume manufactured by Penhaligon's of London. My mother used to wear it when I was a little girl, and on such occasions as my First Eucharist or a visit to the opera, she would let me dab some on my wrists. I remember thinking that the paper on the perfume box was the most perfect blue in creation: almost grey, with a hint of green, and oh-so-elegant behind the gold lettering. The scent of the perfume was divine, as well - according to Penhaligon's, bluebell is one of the most challenging scents to imitate because of its subtlety and delicacy. It's one of my clearest and fondest childhood memories, which is why I feel justified in waxing absurdly poetic about it.
Images in mood theme were all drawn by the talented and delightful
kasche. allegory, american politics, amherst cinema arts center, annie proulx, ansell's cow, art history, arthouse/foreign cinema, at swim two boys, b and b's, being a girl, being a nerd, being a walking anachronism, bob dylan, books, bookshops, brains, cambridge, castles, cathedrals, chamber music concerts, charles darwin, civic pride, classic novels, clerestories, cloisters, colorado, contra dance, costume dramas, cravats, dante alighieri, drawing, e.m. forster, early vernacular literature, eccentrics, emily dickinson, eradicating televisions, etiquette, etymologies, exact change, florence, flying buttresses, french, garden of the gods, geoffrey chaucer, geognosis, glasses, grammar, hair ribbons, hamlet, harry potter, henry david thoreau, history, injecting conversation with shakespearisms, j.r.r. tolkien, jaffa cakes, jane austen, labyrinthine libraries, latin, lgbtq rights, linguistics, listening, living history sites, love, marauders, masculinist theory, maurice, mismatched teacups, modern irish literature/history, monastic history, montague's teahouse, mountains, my marianne, national parks, not being on boats, overdressing for the occasion, palimpsests, penmanship, period costume, plants, poetry, post scripts, punctuation, queer fiction, rachel maddow's political coverage, rachel maddow's razor-sharp wit, rachel maddow's sexy body, rainy day lie-ins, random acts of kindness, reading the dictionary, remus/sirius, ron/hermione, shakespeare, soliloquies, sonnets, stars, structuralist theory, taking too many pictures, tea, teaching, the american heritage dictionary, the cosmos, the epic mode, the first war, the notch, the phrase "linen rotation", the pre-raphaelite brotherhood, the u.s.p.s., theater, thinking, this quintessence of dust, tonks/charlie, tweed, vegetarian cookery, victorian science, w.b. yeats, words beginning with 'p'