Breakfast Tea

I got to spend this morning with one of my favorite people. I haven’t told her this but Chelsea is kinda my grad-school inspiration. She manages to be both totally accomplished as a scholar and dynamic as a teacher, but also fun and passionate and hilarious and she never makes you feel dumb for not knowing something. She just has this way of making the obscure and erudite completely cool and accessible. And I love her.

One of my bucket list items for 2012 was to visit at least five places featured in the book Breakfast with Nick, written by breakfast blogger, Nick Dekker, which is about all the amazing places to have breakfast in Columbus. So today we went to the Cambridge Tea House and it was just as lovely as I imagined it would be. The scones were perfect and the tea was just right. If you live in Columbus and haven’t been yet, I totally recommend it.

I also got to hear some of Chelsea’s dissertation research about 18th-century actresses that seriously had me on the edge of my seat. I will not be even a little shocked when all of this gets turned into an HBO mini-series.

Have you been anywhere new lately?

love, elizabeth

My office on campus

You guys, it's like the 21st century in here. Today I am blogging for the first time on my beautiful new iPad. I'm still waiting for the novelty of the touch screen to go away but I get it now. I totally get how someone could get sucked into the Internet by way of Apple technology. This is the view from my window. The theater looks out over the Olentangy River. I think we're pretty spoiled to have a window to the outside world and I'm looking forward to watching the seasons change from up here.

And thanks to Steve Jobs I can show you my office with the camera. The one built into my iPad! Dudes, my minds is blown right now.

So here's my office. I share it with other people but this is my little corner of solace at school. That's Gonga on the desk. He belonged to my mom when she was in the Navy and now he's my little reminder of home. He spends most of his time watching over my pencils.

It's Friday and that means my office hours are almost up and then I'll be heading out for a drink with some of my friends. What does Friday mean for you?

Love, Elizabeth

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Tea Party

It’s finals week and that means much caffeine and little sleep (and a whole lot of teeth grinding – my jaw has been popping all day from the stress). But God gives us solace in the little, quiet spaces between things. And this was mine today.

What about you? Had a little moment of solace this week?

love, elizabeth

Instagram-ish

It’s Sunday so I thought I’d share some pictures from the week in the style of Instagram. I don’t have an iPhone so these are all courtesy of my favorite new web tool Pixlr-o-matic.

1 and 2: Cupcakes. Yes.

3: Books are the very best kind of mail. 4: My morning tea.

5: On my walk to school. 6: A sweet potato vine in a jar. If it will ever sprout.

7: Some Kind of Wonderful on DVD. “It’s 1987. Don’t you know a girl can be anything she wants?”

8: Re-organized closet.

9 and 10: Madigan being Madigan and also generally awesome.

love, elizabeth

Comfort

 

 

 

Tonight I’m facing a bout of insomnia. Naturally, I decided to get out of bed and blog about it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There’s something about the approaching autumn that makes me a little melancholy, a touch

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

homesick. I miss Colorado. I miss my family. My mom, especially. I haven’t lived with my parents in

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

nearly seven years but there’s just nothing like the beginning of fall to make me feel like a little girl

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In a sudden need for comfort, I have brewed a cup of caramel cream tea from one of my favorite

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

places, The Deep Steep Tea Company in Steamboat Springs (my amazing mother-in-law was

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

sweet enough to send me a few bags).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I do love the fall…the promise of cooler weather and crunchy leaves and cozy sweaters and tart

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

apples…kettle corn and school supplies…in a fit of end-of-summer cabin fever, I went into a frenzy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and completely rearranged all the furniture in our apartment (pictures still to come, I promise). I

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

moved all of our bookcases out of the office and into the living room so that I can have them near me

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

more often. I find them comforting, familiar, and friendly…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Source: etsy.com via Kyle on Pinterest

 

What about you? What little things do you find comforting? And what are you doing to prepare for fall?

love from your friendly neighborhood sleepyhead,

elizabeth