February 2010
39 posts
success! mediocre, hasty success. but a relief anyway.
January 2010
103 posts
nothing will get done until my words get done.
NOTHING. it’s how I work.
halp...?
I’m so shamefully behind on my words. If I don’t at least make it a month, it’ll be an official fail. sigh.
So here are the words for the past 4 days, including today:
panjandrum: an important or self-important official. machination: a crafty scheme intended to accomplish some usually evil end. verboten: forbidden; prohibited. rapacious: grasping; greedy.
your challenge, if...
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jillian is a beast. girlfriend don’t mess.
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i don't understand
how some people can go from madly in love, like legitimately past the cliches, comfortably, “seen you through the seasons” kind of love, to nothing in weeks flat. moved on even, in a month. or is it a longer process that outsiders just never see? some people take it like a bullet to the chest. That, I understand. I can’t, I don’t even, I just, aughhh…someone please...
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my phone shuts itself off randomly, in mid-conversation. my computer is doing the same thing now too. in mid-paper writings.
sigh…if only I could harness my electrical powers for good.
Curious Chimp →
suitecake:
A juvenile chimpanzee arrives at a termite nest with her mother. She notices the remote video camera and approaches to investigate. The chimps of Congo’s Goualougo Triangle display a sharp curiosity.
SIT DOWN MONKEY PLEASE! actually, this is really adorable. :x
things I’ve accomplished in the last two hours:
nap
made coffee
shower
caught up with my words
things that are due tomorrow:
article
research paper final draft
reading, a lot of reading
clearly my priorities are in perfect order.
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My friend in the dorm next door is Honduran, and a new Christian. She just burst into my room saying “SAM I need to read you something!” So she flops on my bed with a bible and goes, “Remember that time Jesus killed everybody with the flood?”
That took me a long second to get….Noah’s Ark.
So I nod, and she starts reading Genesis 9:12. “I have set my...
writing a research paper an hour before it’s due. so legit right now.
when did I become such a terrible student?
Rocking Chair
suitecake:
My grandfather sat there most nights, Staring where it pointed, Shifting on one axis. A Francis Bacon meat-painting hung opposite the chair. i sit here because i hate your mom mom and if you squint at the picture you can see a naked lady We looked We grinned
this is the first thing that’s made me laugh this morning, despite a ripping migraine. that’s something.
we are all so flawed, in so many fascinating ways.
if there’s one thing I’m learning in college, there it is.
look how green my eyes are! :) and my right pupil is slightly bigger than my left? weird.
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“You know what’s wrong with you, Miss Whoever-you-are? You’re chicken, you’ve got...”
– — Paul Varjak, Breakfast at Tiffany’s
(submitted by talkplaylove)
(via quote-book)
cocoa puffs cereal bar for lunch. oh hey saturday.
moltingredleaves:
carinaavila:
kapi:
...
him: what's up?
me: I'm writing a critical analysis of a peer-reviewed scholarly journal...kill me now.
him: WTF was that english?
me: yeah, just really hardcore english.
three things:
It’s after 2am, and I’m going to attempt to read my globalization textbook. clearly, a fail from the start.
When I was walking back from a friend’s apartment just now, some car passed me. then when I got into the commons parking lot, the car turned and circled around behind me in the lot. Some friends came around the corner, and that’s when the car turned around and...
hehe, it’s a snake. why does this crack me up? sometimes I wonder about my sanity. (yesterday’s word, made possible by this guy.)
merriam-webster sucks.
today’s word is Mrs. Grundy. um. if it’s not a word I already know, it’s some ridiculous, obscure phrase. like Danelaw, or Augean Stable. wut.
considering going back to dictionary.com. at least they send me texts. I’m like that annoying cat that can’t decide whether to go outside, or come in. it’s just my way.
“For me, happiness occurs arbitrarily: a moment of eye contact on a bus, where...”
– Russell Brand, My Booky Wook. (via quote-book)
currently downloading:
The “bests of” Prince and Bob Marley. :)
I practically grew up on Prince, but I know very little of Bob Marley. We watched a performance of “Exodus” in Anthropology class today, and I decided it’s time to change that.
“‘Immoral?’ said Oscar Wilde, pressed for his opinion of a notorious...”
cam3ron:
dsfincannon:
I wrote this song (my...
I seem to have forgotten how to write a news article. which is bad, ‘cause my piece is due in two hours. betcha anderson cooper never has this problem.
"Jesus Rifles" →
Have you guys seen this?
Military-issue guns with Bible verses engraved on them. It literally makes me sick to my stomach. One of the verses they talk about in the video is John 8:12. “When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, ‘I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.’” On the sight of a sniper...
“Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the...”
– Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (via psychotherapy)
today’s word took 90 shots to get right. and it’s still not even how I wanted it to turn out. but if you guys don’t look at it anyway, I’m gonna cry. so.
hey guys hey
I can always count on tumblrs to inspire me to new things. So! I have to submit a proposal for my photography-project in portfolio class. It’ll be a theme that I’ll have to stick with all semester, but it can be anything I choose to do. I figure I’ve got my daily word project as a fallback.
Any (new) ideas?
interesting facts about dreaming →
suzywire:
(via girlswithkoleidescopeeyes)
1. You Forget 90% of Your Dreams
Within 5 minutes of waking, half of your dream is forgotten. Within 10, 90% is gone
2. In Our Dreams We Only See Faces, That We already Know
Our mind is not inventing faces – in our dreams we see real faces of real people that we have seen during our life but may not know or remember. We have all seen hundreds of...
I felt kind of racist shooting today’s word. just so you guys know I’m not actually a white bigot. heh.