onefixedstar | My new favourite things

I'm completely in love with opal right now. I got a greenish-blue black opal doublet pendant a couple of days ago, and I can't seem to stop staring at it. So very, very pretty.

I'm also completely in love with Political Communication, a journal that I somehow failed to notice until recently, despite the fact that it focuses on all the issues I'm really interested in. I think my task for the first week of May will be to thumb through the back issues, looking at the current debates and hopefully finding inspiration for a dissertation topic. They even have a whole issue, less than a year old, devoted to the role of sociology in communications and media study! How perfect! How grad student-esque to be proclaiming love for a journal! I'm as bad as MasseyPrincess, who couldn't stop grinning last week when her 600 page Randall Collins book arrived. (That's a theory book, folks, for those of you who don't keep up with such things. A big-ass theory book. And she doesn't even like theory.)

I'm craving good old North American Chinese food right now. There's something ironic about craving artificial-Chinese when one lives amidst a bounty of delicious and authentic Asian restaurants, but there it is. I'm sure there's some return-to-childhood thing in there, possibly brought on by stress. Plus, you know, large quantities of MSG, sugar, and oil do make for tasty food, up until it kills you. I'm fighting the craving for now, but if it's still there tonight, I might order some in while engaging in one of my other guilty pleasures: cop shows. (Tonight's line-up: "CSI" and "Without a Trace.") The question is, who do I have a better chance of convincing to participate: my roommate or my boyfriend?