tephs.com - v.0.1 - older and farther away

It’s been glaringly obvious that there’s so much I want to learn that university and high school hasn’t taught me. It’s also glaringly obvious that there’s lots that they could have taught me but I didn’t learn, and that there’s lots they could never have taught me.
Tomorrow I start a cooking class at the Cookshop down by Cambie and 12th. There’s been a passion for cooking (as you will soon see in my recipes site) in my life lately, and I’m hoping that this won’t fade when I shift back into workaholic gear.

Next Tuesday, I’ll be taking a wine tasting class at UBC - you know, to up my social value. And, I love wine but I know nothing about it, and I think it should be something I know something about. Period.
I know it sounds silly - but even though they’re not REAL classes, it’s just as thrilling, if not more.

Reified is officially launched.
Reified is the pseudo book club that I’m trying to start up with some friends, where we read whatever we want and then write reviews with the intention of inspiring others to read those books.

It’s just starting out for now, but I’m super excited to be reading more again. I’ve got Wicked and Stardust down (both highly recommended) and I’m onto Artemis Fowl now.

i’m still and slowly coming to terms with it.

y’all know how much i loved heath. ever since 10 things i hate about you, with his boyish shrug-grin and a knight’s tale, with his chivalric courtly romance.
it’s hard to believe that i’m not going to hear any more news of him. hard to believe i won’t send mass text msgs about his new girlfriend, or mass text msgs about how he has broken up with them because he has realized that he ought to be with me.
i realize i never actually knew him but he always came off as such an artistic, genuine person, with all the depth in the world. he always smiled so warmly and he was so beautiful in such a natural way. not polished and overly groomed like some of hollywood… he seemed like such a loving father and i can’t imagine being Matilda right now. As an actor, he was so underrated and so, so talented.
he’s the only person i know with the name of my favorite victorian tragic lover.
i only hope that this was indeed an accident, it would absolutely shatter my heart to learn that he really was that unhappy in this world.

i send you all of my love.