February 2011
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Haircut
When I was little I always had really long hair. I was sort of proud of it, in a way. My hair is pretty and I like putting it up into cute hairdos occasionally.
But then in middle school I cut it short for the first time… and I loved it! Hair is incredibly heavy, and I realized for the first time in my life how in the way it had been and how much it had been weighing me down. I started...
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January 2011
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Motivation!
Come on! You can do it! Only two more paragraphs!
I have to write a major essay for my midterm in British Literature III. The teacher is notoriously the hardest grader in the department and I still haven’t received my last essay, so I have no guideline on what I should improve. I feel like I’m winging this and I’m incredibly nervous. I had finished my introduction, then my first...
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Poetry means so much...
I’m reading “Sunday Afternoons with Tolstoy” by Lynne Burris Butler, and I’m absolutely moved to tears by it.
I should be working on my midterm essay ,due Monday, which I’m likely to fail, but from the very first poem I was captivated by this book. It’s taken my soul and the art of words to a new horizon…
This is something only poetry can do. Ms....
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AH!
That feeling you get when you realized just yesterday that you’re totally okay with being single and it was probably for the best that you got dumped and you aren’t even scheming to bump into him between classes anymore and then he goes and messages you on Facebook out of the blue and you panic and don’t know what to think anymore. O__O
That feeling. I have that.
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Eww...ill..
I have been really sick recently and it is not boding well. I’ve got midterms coming up and if this is the flu then all my classmates are just going to have to get sick because I can’t be missing classes. I’ve already missed several because of this sickness.
Worse than that, I missed the meeting this morning with the woman who is going to sign off on my study abroad classes. I...
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“If he be Mr. Hyde,” he thought, “I shall be Mr. Seek.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”
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“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does....”
– Algernon from Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest”
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Looking back through a journal...
I never used to be able to keep a consistent journal.
Finally I decided to make myself try, partly so I’d stop having to pack folders of loose-leaf paper into my drawers. I tried a lot of journals, but the only ones I felt like I could write in without… I don’t know, being judged? Without having to write nicely or consistently or something special in, were black marble...
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Sometimes all the heart is craving is one strong, irrational, impossible romance to cling to. It doesn’t matter whether or not it’s your own.
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"Removing the talking, thinking, expressive heads...
rosalarian:
I suppose it doesn’t do me any good to ridicule my advertisers, but it also doesn’t do me any good to excuse sexism for the sake of a dollar. I have been told, and I quote: “If someone is going to sit down and write an angry message to everyone who uses breasts in advertisements, that person is going to be very, very busy.” But that doesn’t mean it’s not a problem that needs to be...
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House Votes to Repeal Obama's Healthcare Overhaul →
There’s just no reason for this that isn’t petty. We finally have a system of universal healthcare. But no. An alternative option to healthcare isn’t a good idea, we’re going to ban it because it’s a Democratic idea. This is petty, I don’t see the point of getting rid of this healthcare alternative and the Republican House needs to get over itself.
Why is it...
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WatchUnfortunately I didn’t much like the first one. I still think Robert Downey Jr. is too weird to be Sherlock Holmes… but maybe this one will be good? I recognized at least a great majority of the scenes as straight out of the stories, so there may be hope! (I do not look forward to seeing that man shirtless. :( )
totalfilm:
Behind The Scenes of Sherlock Holmes 2
Entertainment Tonight...
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Life Update
I think it’s time for an update about my life goals.
My homework for this quarter is more ridiculous than I’d anticipated. I never thought I’d have as much reading as I do, but I’m managing it. For the most part I’m enjoying my classes and working hard to hopefully get good grades.
I’d meant to have done a lot more with study abroad by now, but after getting...
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Life Update
I think it’s time for an update about my life goals.
My homework for this quarter is more ridiculous than I’d anticipated. I never thought I’d have as much reading as I do, but I’m managing it. For the most part I’m enjoying my classes and working hard to hopefully get good grades.
I’d meant to have done a lot more with study abroad by now, but after getting...
“Laugh alone and the world thinks you’re a nut. Read alone and the world sees a...”
– Howard Kandel (via 500daysofkissingmypillow)
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I think maybe the thing that makes us human, is the fact that we can wonder what it is that makes us human.
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Stand Up Comedy for the Soul
I watched a really fabulous stand-up routine today, Margaret Cho: Assassin.
This was the first of her stand-up routines I’ve ever seen, but it was amazing! She has a very crude sense of humor and very strong opinions, and I can see how her opinions have given her a bad reputation in a lot of circles. The things she stands up for, and she stands strongly!, are Women’s rights, Gay...
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“Literature duplicates the experience of living in a way that nothing else can,...”
– Barbara Kingsolver (via 500daysofkissingmypillow)
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“Writing isn’t about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid,...”
– Stephen King, On Writing (via 500daysofkissingmypillow)
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“Cause you can’t jump the track, we’re like cars on a cable, and...”
– Anna Nalick
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“Cause you can’t jump the track, we’re like cars on a cable, and...”
– Anna Nalick
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The World's a Funny Place...
I had an interesting conversation about dreams with a friend today.
I’m not talking about aspirations, because we all we have those and we know what a toll those are on their life. This blog is about obtaining those kinds of dreams, but that’s not what we were talking about tonight.
We talked about sleeping dreams, the kind that come from your subconscious and are realistic and...
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“Men have strength, Miss Ferenczi said, but no true magic. That is why men fall...”
– Charles Baxter in “Gryphon”
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“Men have strength, Miss Ferenczi said, but no true magic. That is why men fall...”
– Charles Baxter in “Gryphon”
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Compromises
I wrote this poem over the summer, and then I read it aloud to someone just this last week and had to struggle to keep the words from catching in my throat. It’s from the book I’m still working to publish, and I thought it was about time I shared this poem with people.
Compromises
Summer went by like wet paint,
With few leaps of fun, here and there.
When you said you loved...
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“As a storyteller, I know that if I don’t like the ending, I can write a...”
– Amy Tan
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“As a storyteller, I know that if I don’t like the ending, I can write a...”
– Amy Tan
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“… but you have a calling, an urge, a delusion, an unfortunate habit. You...”
– Lorrie Moore
about being a writer
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“Oh, the words, the words, the
achingly inadequate beautiful words.”
– Terry Hertzler (via ton-souhait)
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Dreams and dresses
I had an interesting dream last night from which I woke up feeling rather sad.
I was going to a party and wearing this fantastic hoop dress that was elaborately embroidered. It was sort of maroon-red, strapless, and just zipped up the front. Hoop and all, it just zipped up like a coat. Somehow I looked amazing in it.
So, wearing and adjusting this dress, I go to the party, where everyone is...
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“I wouldn’t even try, but I think you could save my life…”
– -Adam Lambert from “Whataya Want From Me”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdepvOa-QzA
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“So true is it that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that...”
– John Stuart Mills
in “The Subjection of Women”
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“So true is it that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that...”
– John Stuart Mills
in “The Subjection of Women”
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A different perspective?
Normally when we’re going over stories or poems in class I realize quite early in the conversation that I did not understand the text the way most of the class understands it.
Everyone will jump on some metaphor or allusion and I have to double check that I read the right story because when they’re going off about hot air balloons I clearly remember reading a poem about a flower.
I...
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Bringing a Bikini to a Sword Fight: IGN finally... →
gaminginpink:
I don’t mean to sound snarky. It’s actually a beautiful thing to see a heterosexual male agree with me on this on one of the biggest gaming sites out there. Even if it did take this long. Maybe my days of being painted as a Feminist Harpy (as if being a feminist were a bad thing) are growing fewer?
Perhaps you are asking yourself why having a billion busty babes in games is a bad...
