February 2011
82 posts
Okay, remember this post from a few days ago? All about what I want and why and how?
Today I read all about the riots in Egypt and how Angela Merkel feels about the Euro on the NYTimes website. I went to class and understood about 20-30% of the random German my professor decided to read. I went to the gym and worked up a sweat. And I’m currently reading “An Introduction to Modern...
January 2011
85 posts
Fear of Flying, Erica Jong
lazybookreviews:
Oh, my God, I read this IN the library when I was about ten, and was all “Jesus, being a grown woman sounds fucking awful.”
I stand by my preteen critical assessment.
I read “She’s Come Undone” by Wally Lamb when I was about 15 and coming to terms with having dysthymia and NEVER EVER EVER EVER wanted to grow up EVER.
I feel pent up. I feel like I need to move or leave or go. I feel like I’m reaching exit velocity with no exit and really, no velocity. Just an aching, internal desire to go and a focused loneliness as the result.
“When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a...”
– Ann Druyan, talking about her dead husband Carl Sagan (via fuckyeahexistentialism, savagemike)
your inner charm →
beautifulcommunication:
I have always thought that every single person I have ever come across, looked astonishingly beautiful without make-up, without being all dressed up, beautiful in their most simple and natural way. Whenever I see someone made up with make-up, I mentally strip their…
“I’m happy with being short. I can run through people’s legs.”
– Dan Radcliffe (via living-death)
I. love. him.
“When you date someone it’s like you’re taking a class in them and...”
– Ted Moesby, How I Met Your Mother
“Smart girls have more fun.”
– Aaron Sorkin (via oldfilmsflicker)
22 years old. Going to a silly hat party tonight.
Haters gonna hate.
“There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and...”
– Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, The Best Russian Short Stories (via khadeejafinds)
“Existentialists are nihilists because they recognize that life is ultimately...”
– How to be an Existentialist, Gary Cox (via selley)
Reblog with your iPod's name
pale-fire:
itsdelovely:
marplecomplex:
frdirector:
thevulturesunite:
thewaine:
-sweetcaroline:
Rasey Jae
ryden
gierra.
Scarlett Vale
Watson
Maggie the Cat
Uncle Phil, after Philip Larkin. My old iPod was Uncle Kurt, after Kurt Vonnegut.
Betty. :)
Wishes are Funny
(aaahhhh double-post)
It was just 11:11. Now, I don’t particularly believe in making wishes, especially since once my friend Kevin wished that I wouldn’t think of a wish before 11:12 and his wish came true. But I digress.
Tomorrow is four years since James died. My first instinct at 11:11? I wish James was fucking alive. But that can’t and won’t happen. I know this....