January 2012
50 posts
wah resolutions
beat minesweeper on expert
get a job
move back to nyc
re enroll in school
stabilize piano playing
grow a spine
relax
December 2011
134 posts
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i love/hate those books that are so engrossing you don’t know what to do after you finish them
i am too busy to have friends a lover would just complicate my plans
people guilting other people into feeling grateful makes me nauseous
US Moves Toward Banning Photoshop In Cosmetics Ads →
100% for this
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“It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is...”
– Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol (via thewhitedog)
Anonymous asked: I just think you are really fucking intelligent.
sometimes i wonder if my lack of romantic interest and gender identity are results of chronic indecisiveness or the fact that i want to reduce the number of “planes” i exist on to the bare minimum or simply the way i am
SIGH if i was still in school i’d have taken a class that directly assesses this but all answers can’t be found in a classroom i’d probably be more...
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“Yossarian had so many ailments to be afraid of that he was sometimes tempted to...”
– Catch-22, Joseph Heller
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“Yossarian decided to change the subject. “Now you’re changing the...”
– Catch-22, Joseph Heller
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“He was his own sarcophagus, a bold and infallible diplomat who was always...”
– Catch-22, Joseph Heller
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“For a few precarious seconds, the chaplain tingled with a weird, occult...”
– Catch-22, Joseph Heller
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transparentradiation:
Right Voice (Morrison,...
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the youtube snowflake button brought tears to my eyes
“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to...”
– CHARLES DICKENS, Great Expectations (via judydark)
i wish there was a way to rent a traditional family you could bring out during the holidays
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last night my friend was watching marley and me and i wasn’t really paying attention but i know the general story and it got me thinking about how grateful i am that my father’s ex wife took the dog and i didn’t have to see it age or die
it was always my former stepmother’s dog so to speak she always referred to it as her baby and believed that anything it uttered was...
oldiesongs:
Perfect Day - Lou Reed
“Arnold Friend said, in a gentle-loud voice that was like a stage voice, “The...”
– Joyce Carol Oates, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? (via gatheringbones)
How Much Land Does a Man Need? →
a very very nice short story
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i'm not even sorry
hank hill in the sky with propane
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“Along the ground suddenly, on both sides of the path, he saw dozens of new...”
– Catch-22, Joseph Heller
if job searching
has been discouraging
keep your head up little urchin
there’s always prostitution
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watching the end credits of a sitcom you’ve never seen is so bizarre because they show pictures of the best scenes for a synopsis and you feel like you should be laughing but its just confusing who are these people in these plucky situations laughing smiling and hugging each other while a reworked version of a vaguely familiar theme song plays
if i don’t get a job by dec 31st i will mentally jump off a bridge
recently i realized how much contempt i had for people who revolve their happiness/mood on being in a relationship or on their looks or one thing in particular that i thought was really trivial and silly
but then as things have been happening lately i see that i revolve my entire mood around school and no matter what the object in question is that’s just as trivial to concentrate your...
cemerie:
Stephanie Says - The Velvet...
just beefed up my resume 200% with this here completion of intermediate minesweeper in a minute forty
sit back and watch the interviews pile in
“Everything was fine until the last scene of the opera, during which the hero and...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via nickdown)
35 Facts That Demonstrate Higher Education is a... →
cocaincadence:
#1 After adjusting for inflation, U.S. college students are borrowing about twice as much money as they did a decade ago.
#2 According to the College Board, college tuition is absolutely soaring. The following comes from a recent CBS News article….
Average tuition and fees at public colleges rose 8.3 percent this year and, with room and board, now exceed $17,000 a year,...
“The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via insanelytame)
Petition for Trans* gender options on Facebook.
youknowyouretrans:
http://www.allout.org/en/petition/facebook
i believe this is about 1,000 signatures away from its goal cmon
i’ve come to notice that whenever something elicits negative feelings in me about a half hour later i think to myself should i really care about this it’s only _____ but i can never tell if i’m initially overreacting or just suppressing things that deserve some concern ”this isn’t so bad” has been a mantra for AGES
i probably live my life in denial but...