November 2011
See you in December, Tumblr.
I’ve been thinking about it for a while, but I’ve officially made the decision to ask pale-fire to change my password so I can’t log in. That’s pretty much deactivating my account without deleting it, right?
Wish me luck on reading and papers and stuff!
Is it possible to deactivate tumblr like one can deactivate Facebook? I need to eliminate all my distractions until the semester ends.
I just got super overwhelmed by all the work I have to do this month and my knees hurt and the washing machine downstairs is malfunctioning and my room is a mess and I just went from normal to ohmygodsostressed really, really quickly. Not going to class tonight, don’t want to stress my knees and also class seems really stupid when we have nothing due today and so much due soon.
Oh God. So...
Consider the Humblebrag
thenewinquiry:
Roy Lichtenstein “Girl in Mirror” (1964)
What false modesty gains from a new medium
By Matt Pearce
On Twitter, he calls himself Totes McGotes. He’s got a job in San Diego that probably involves real estate. I’m not entirely sure.
Mr. McGotes’s (or is it Totes’s?) avatar is a obscured cell-phone photo — presumably of himself — shirtless in the mirror. Obviously, he’s in good...
I think I’m learning that I’m a naturally active person. Which is funny, because I can be so super lazy and apathetic.
But apathy has to be learned. The summer after my sophomore year of college, I had just broken up with my boyfriend of two years (okay, he broke up with me), my brother went to rehab for the first time, and I help my first 9-5 job. I would come home from work and...
AND EVERYTHING WAS PARKS & REC AND NOTHING HURT.
“Everyone has a moment when they discover they love Amy Poehler.”
– Mindy Kaling Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) (via Kelly)
“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is...”
– Henry James (via wordpainting)
A Terribly Illogical, but Appealing, Fallacy
I couldn’t possibly feel these feelings unless he was feeling them, too.
