"When a character is born, he at once acquires such an independence, even of his own author, that the whole world can imagine him in innumerable situations other than those the author thought to place him in."

-Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author

I am Intern

So, I have this internship. I have the title of "Costumes Intern," but when it comes down to it, my job is to make order out of a stock room that looks like this:

This is not actually a picture of the stockroom. Rather, it is a random picture I found when I did a google search of "messy closet." (I found it here by the way. Do not worry, I'm not trying to poach other people's pictures of messy closets. Credit where credit is due!) The photo is nevertheless quite accurate. After hours of lifting heavy coats high above my head and slouching over pants to measure their waistlines, my shoulders hurt. I am a grumpy monkey.

Grumpy monkey found here.

Oh, hot cereal

The Oatmeal is both horrifying and wonderful.

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/failed_experiment

Tumblr

I have decided to start a Tumblr. It will be the place I dump all the images I find, so I don't have to inundate this blog with them. It is therefore named The Deluge. Visit it at crowlivia.tumblr.com.

Babies Babies Babies

I just saw the film Babies and I highly recommend it. Here's just about my favorite clip:

Soaping out my brows

Today, I had a little fun with hair and make up and managed to make myself look like this:

The eyebrows were the tricky bit. I have thick, dark brows, and so even after I soaped them (like it sounds, I used soap to flatten my eyebrows to make them easier to cover over), used coverup, foundation, and powder over them, they were still there. So, I penciled the new brows over anyway and used photoshop clone stamp (otherwise known as photoshop's gift to the world) to fix it up.

So now you know.