a photo and some frustration

after that photoshoot on monday my friend took some photos of me in the clothes i had worn that day. if all my photos were such good quality i would post everyday! 

sweater and shoes: vintage, pants: h&m, hat: local designer

also, i got really frustrated/angry/annoyed with toronto today. i was going to rant on and on but i've calmed down since coming home from school (edit: this is still probably considered ranting on and on). basically, young torontonians are on the whole extremely, obsessively, painfully self-conscious of themselves. as in, analyzing every little aspect of their social being and labeling it, hipster, pretentious, pseudo-this, neo-that. there is this obsession with defining 'hipster' and calling everyone around you by this label while denying that you are of this type yourself. i was reading a school newspaper and it seemed like half of it was 'ironic' hipster defining/bashing content. things along the lines of  "for christmas, get your tea-drinking friend a book called 'ways to spot pretentiousness.'" because, as you all know, drinking tea is a newly invented 'hipster' activity, not at all a deeply rooted part of everyday life in virtually every culture the world over. nothing can be genuinely liked anymore, nothing can be done without the consideration of 'is this cool? is this so uncool it's cool?' this obsession with 'hipsterdom' is i guess a general north american one. but i'm waiting with fingers crossed for the day when everyone will accept the fact that any young person liking ANYTHING at all is by today's definition a 'hipster' and we can all go back to living our lives, caring about the things that actually matter. i drink a cup of tea everyday, my dad drinks a cup of tea everyday, all of my ancestors probably drank a cup of tea everyday, so yes, we are all by definition pretentious hipsters, now let's stop caring about this and go back to enjoying our tea.

delicious-pretentious tea at a cafe in gdansk, poland