February 2012
“I suppose I don’t really understand you yet,” I said. “I’m not all that smart....”
– Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (via words-to-chew-on)
January 2012
tracylord:
Shirley McLaine is going to be on Downton Abbey? And probably as Cora´s mom? Love!
yeeeeeeesss!
BRB, Gotta go to a FUN. concert.
:D
Microwave pizza: the breakfast of slightly-hungover champions.
MY DAD FOUND A JOB!
:D
Watching last night's 30 Rock...
Alec Baldwin’s dye job is certainly…interesting…
SHUT IT DOWN, BALDWIN.
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LIFE IS TOUGH, INTERNET
I really want a glass of red wine…but I also really want to brush my teeth. I want to drink that red wine in bed and once I am in bed, do not want to get out again to brush my teeth.
I do not want to drink red wine after I brush my teeth. Yuck.
LIFE IS SO HARD.
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I just received a text informing me that my boyfriend learned the difference between soft, firm, and hard cheeses today.
New Boyfriend is a keeper.
ratkingcole:
Noah and the whale // call your...
“Slut” is how we vilify a woman for exercising her right to say “yes”....”
– (via thechocolatebrigade)
This is a concise and accurate assessment.
How to be a Dangerous Woman →
The conversation is framed in a way that underscores and reinforces the idea that men are men and women are….not.
It also denies the fact that women have always been strong, birthed babies and held dying children and endured oppression and fought for the rights of others (and sometimes even themselves) and waited for husbands and sons to come back from wars and managed households and ...
thinknorth:
One of those days when you contemplate running into the mountains…and not coming out..
All day, err’ry day.
Just Had a Mini Identity Crisis
My German language textbook is talking about transitive/intransitive verbs and mixed up the definitions. Now, I know grammar and know that transitive verbs take accusative objects, etc etc. But when the textbook said otherwise I started second-guessing myself and my world crumbled a little bit.*
Luckily, one of my cohort members was awake and on Facebook and could verify that she, too, thinks the...
YES.
Finally! “Hounds of Baskervilles”….Watson suggests Sherlock has Aspergers!
“The German is angular and clumsy when he affects polish and politeness; but he...”
– Richard Wagner
(I mean, obviously it was the phrases like “superior to everyone” that Nazism pulled from Wagner’s work for inspiration…but this is a great quotation [albeit in translation].) 