March 2010
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I'm feeling...motivated.
Of course, I felt motivated at the beginning of last quarter, too. And somehow by the end I completely lost the ability to give a shit about anything, including Creativity and Writing, which I loved and even sort of needed. All I had the time and energy to do was mope and feel shitty and sleep and cut class, which doesn’t even make sense. I came to hate the routine and almost everything I...
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Why is my trail mix 50% raisins?
I mean, I like raisins, but c’mon.
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Look, Senator Voinovich, it was great of you to...
I can’t help thinking that whoever sends out your reply letters only registered the word “Uganda” in my letter and then sent me the standard Ugandan genocide reply letter. And while I obviously care about the genocide, I was writing to you about the Anti-Homosexuality bill that is going through parliament, and that’s a different matter entirely from the Lord’s...
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Seriously considering becoming a journalism and...
A lot of the PR requirements overlap the journalism ones, so I think I can do it, even after already having been in school for almost two years. I just feel like one degree isn’t enough, and I’ll probably end up doing PR work anyway, so why not?
101110 asked: isn't oil exploitation thrilling?
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chrisreblogs asked: Alice came across a lion and a unicorn in a forest of forgetfulness. Those two are strange beings. The lion lies every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and the other days he speaks the truth. The unicorn lies on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, however the other days of the week he speaks the truth.
Lion: Yesterday I was lying.
Unicorn: So was I.
Which day did they say that?
Lion: Yesterday I was lying.
Unicorn: So was I.
Which day did they say that?
I got a Tumblr question page because I am bored. →
Query me and shit.
“In fact, the current surge of anger — and the accompanying rise in right-wing...”
– Frank Rich ”The Rage is Not About Healthcare” (via jayparkinsonmd) (via 101110)
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Every last mouse in this computer lab makes a...
It’s like a mouse-owl, which actually sounds like a horrible hybrid because owls eat mice, but that’s the best way I can describe the sound. An owl hooting with a mouse’s voicebox.
“Hate is baggage. Life’s too short to be pissed off all the time. It’s just not...”
– American History X | Submitted by:risingphoenix (via quote-book)
Leg Room
When my dad came in the door, he said, “Your brother’s on his way home from the state business competition. But when I asked him how it went, he texted, ‘I’ll explain when I get back.’”
I just assumed.
My brother’s not the type to hype things up, so if he had placed, he would have just said so. I imagined instead that he had some crazy story about how he’d been disqualified or how the other...
UK Daily Mirror: Why didn’t you come out to your parents that you were gay until you were 31?
Jane Lynch: I didn’t want to be gay. I wanted to be…I wanted an easy life. And you know what? I am gay and I still have an easy life.
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Have I ever mentioned how much I love Jane Lynch? She’s awesome in a thousand different ways.
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Oh my Jesus, I am done.
Now I just need to wake up long enough tomorrow to turn in my paper.
Studying journalism has warped the way I write...
Most notably, I can’t do parenthetical citation like a normal person. Every time I use something from a source outside of my own brain, I have to write, “According to So-and-So…” It feels wrong otherwise.
I'm supposed to be writing an essay, but it keeps...
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Giving myself less than an hour and a half to...
I think this professor hates me, and reasonably so.
It's not a competiton - part II
But what I really meant to say is “thank you” to the two of you who truly listened.
And forget being cryptic. Vianca and Jillian, I’m talking about you. Thank you.
It's not a competition.
When I tell you something, you don’t need to one-up it with a story that makes your situation worse than mine. First off, that’s rude, and second off, that puts me in a very awkward position. I never know what to say or how to defend myself, because I’m not about to try and outdo your story. It’s not a competition. Maybe you could use your own experience to help me out. Our...
Oh, THE DRAMA of RA selection...
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Goddammit weather, I'm trying to be grumpy.
“The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only...”
– Stephen King (via lovekat04) (via writingsarah) (via quote-book)
True that, Steve-o! True. That.
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“When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and...”
– Buddha (via reluctantbuddha) (via quote-book)
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“Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city,...”
– Jeannette Winterson, Art Objects
Dead Ends that Go Places: How to effectively fake... →
Begin the night before. If you are planning on staying home the next day, tell your mom or dad that you don’t feel well the night before. If you’ve been ill before with a virus or bug repeat those symptoms; it will seem less like you are faking. If you’ve been to see someone who had a cold…
Or, you know, you could take all this energy involved in this elaborate plan and just suck it...
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"Stop the Brown Bailout" →
I love how this site is all, “The UPS are a bunch of whiney, greedy babies who are trying to knock out the competition!”
…and then you realize that the site and everything on it was created by FedEx.
“The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.”
– Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
“I’ll just tell you this, if [health care reform] passes and it’s five years from...”
– Rush Limbaugh, single handedly providing sufficient reason to pass HCR (via allezla) (via brooklynmutt)
He’ll go to one of the hundreds of other developed nations that don’t have universal healthcare. Oh wait.
(via adamquinn) (via 101110)
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Placement of the word "only" is serious business. →
Can you identify a problem in any of these sentences?
1. The budget can only be balanced if programs are cut for next year. 2. Many animals hibernate in the winter, only waking occasionally for nourishment. 3. The team only scored two runs in the first seven innings.
In each of these sentences, the modifier only needs to be closer to the word, phrase, or clause it modifies. Each sentence would...
Someone resuscitate my brain, please.
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Couple nurtured virtual child while real baby... →
What the fuck.
