A fashion mid-spectrum crisis.

I said that I was going to write a lot in this blog, but it is now the 17th of June and I am only on post two. Sigh.

Today, as I sit typing wearing mismatching not-at-all-intended-for-pajamas pajamas, I turn my mind to the idea of clothes.

I myself like bright colours. Take yesterday, for example. I twirled across my room pretending to be a Disney princess, and chose a purple rain coat, acid yellow jumper and blue flowery dress, then accessorized with a red lipstick and a tinge of silver eyeshadow in what I like to call 'the Cassie look'. I like wearing bright colours, because I feel as though it brightens my mood. It makes me feel as though there is a reason to be happy. Sort of pathetic fallacy, but with clothes.

Recently though, I've been becoming intruiged by black and white. A crisp white shirt, a blackboard blazer, a casual grey jumper. I like the way it puts all the focus on the shape. The style of shirt. The ends of the sleeves. The texture. Wearing black and white makes me feel like picking up a cigarette and sitting outside a Parisian cafe.

I don't know where I'm going with this. My inner psychologist makes me think I don't want to wear plainer colours in case it puts too much attention on what I'm actually doing and saying.

But even so, I may try it. Wearing different clothes to my usual style makes me feel like a different character. For my art exam last winter I dressed as Effy Stonem, just for fun. For my chemisty exam, I was a potassium flame test, and for english I channel what I like to call 'english teacher chic'.

So that's a window into my mind regarding clothes. However, I know that for the forseeable future I will be wearing nothing but pajamas. I may have to put on my thinking cap.

Nails: No7's 'cheeky chops'
Reading: Atonement
Listening to: The Mountain Goats, as of John Green's indirect recomendation.

Inspiration. (or lack of it)

Welcome to my blog (ooh, good start, past Olivia)

I've been wanting to start one for quite some time (since I read Bryarly, Hayley and Kayley's blogs to be... embarrassingly, honest. I won't include links to their blogs, in case they somehow see me doing it and laugh at my somewhat stalkery blog reading... although isn't that what a blog is for? Who knows).

To be honest, I don't know what to say. I think this blog is going to include recaps of my day, maybe some outfit of the day pictures, pictures I've taken and maybe just some random things I'm thinking about.

Basically, I realised recently that everyone I like or admire in the world of internet success writes. Whether it be for fun or for a career. I on the other hand write nothing but literature analysis and the occasional drama essay -thanks to my current academic 'career'- but I have always wanted to be able to write well, and practise makes perfect, so here goes.

Today has been quite a boring day though. I woke up, forcing myself out of bed and feeling increasing amounts of dread about the day to come (this dread has been appearing in larger concentrations every morning since I started my exam revision schedule), and instantly catapaulted myself straight over to the area of my floor inhabited by my drama folder. From there, I proceded to read over all of my drama notes from the past year, and my revision plans progressed slowly from then untill about 12 o'clock.

Since then, I've eaten two meals, done a lot of procrastination and had a shower. My hair is puffy, my dress doesn't match my tights and I am unsure of whether to be feeling happy that I got today's work out of the way, or guilty that I didn't really do a lot. To be perfectly honest, I have no idea how much I'm supposed to be doing.

Okay, I think that's going to have to conclude my post for now, as I'm worried that the more I write, the more boring it's becoming.

I think I'm going to write on and off, between revision, for the time being, but I am absolutely determined to blog every day in July, and from the 15th of June 2012, this blog is going to become a regular thing.

I have no idea how people interract on this website, so I doubt I'll have anyone reading this right now, but it can be for me, Olivia. To capture the things I do, the things I eat and wear and, most importantly, the things I'm thinking.

Okay, future Olivia (whom I shall assume is the only person reading this), that's enough monotony for now. I'll see you in a couple of days... or in June. You know, whenever.


Also, I like these things people throw onto the ends of their blogs, so I'm doing one.

Nail colour: Foxglove by No7
Currently reading: Lord of the Flies (for english, but I love it as a book, so it counts)
Music: Of Monsters and Men, Lady Godiva (Alex Day) and yesterday I had a brief dabble in Lily Allen (nostalgia) and the band Cake (curious, due to their name, and my opinion has not yet surfaced)