melayneseahawk . adventures in housekeeping

In addition to catching up on history notes today (I'm now completely caught up on lecture notes and a chapter ahead in the textbook), I also did some cleaning in my room and some baking.

The cleaning was culling three overflowing milk crates of old school papers down to only the things I really wanted to keep. A lot of it was empty notebooks or emptyable binders, and much of the rest was stuff where the subject was something I might want to keep (history, English, etc.), but most of the actual contents was useless (quizzes with just the answers, syllabi, etc.). Managed to cull three overfull crates (probably four completely full ones) down to one crate of reusable notebooks or binders and a quarter of a crate of stuff I want to save. The rest is in three bags in the recycling, and I'm feeling very accomplished.

[I also found my CD of last year's Vagina Monologues mix, so I may share a few angry feminist mix CDs over the next few days.]

Mom and I also did some baking, the madeleines whose recipe I previously put up. But now, there are pictures!

Delicately cakey and perfect. Though, I think I might add just a dash of lemon zest next time and be very traditional. :D

Also, I was playing around with the spirals of some of the notebooks I disassembled, and I made this:

I call it "Coils". Its tangles represents the complexity of modern-day life. The rustiness of some of the metal shows our disregard for the past. The holes I managed to poke in my hands with the sharp ends (not visible in this image) are signs of the way that our mechanized life hurts the very people who build it.

*snerk* I still have the IB BS ability.