May 2012
“The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.”
—James Baldwin
“I’ve always sort of despised everyone. I never felt like I could connect with...”
– Nate Ruess for Rolling Stone (via homewrecked)
Feeling' like a rich woman...
I found €3, 81 in my pile of change. Look out Europe, here I come!
This will probably come as no surprise to you, but living with an addict is really, really tough. Even if they’re recovering, and especially if they only think they’re recovering.
My brother is 21 and has been out of rehab for about 3 years now but I don’t know if he’s ever going to change. He (supposedly) doesn’t use any of the harder drugs anymore, but does drink...
Don't worry, I'm alive.
Hello, Internet! Don’t worry, I’m still alive and this tumblr is still functional. I’ve just been super busy with research and moving and whatnot, so I’ve barely had time to sit down at the computer (or iPad for that matter -thanks, Mom and Dad, for the awesome birthday present!!).
I’m almost completely moved out of my beautiful apartment that I am going to miss...
Truth
When I’m working on my papers, I can submerse myself, enjoy myself, and actually forget that they’re kicking me out.
Questionable Things I Learned Today:
Surprise, they all have to do with German and Germany.
“Der Juden im Dorn,” an antisemitic Grimm Brothers’ fairy tale about a Jew who is forced to dance in thorns is still published in German collected Grimms works, but is missing from my 1981 English version of “The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales.” I’m not sure which of those facts upsets me more. On the...
lostinamerica:
“There were all kinds of things I was afraid of at first, ranging from grizzly bears to “mean” horses and gun-fighters; but by acting as if I was not afraid I gradually ceased to be afraid.”
-Teddy Roosevelt, 1913
Don’t let fear keep you from doing what you know you’re capable of doing, or realizing the full potential of the man or woman you can become. In the absence of...
“There are no saints in this world, and I am glad for it. It takes a certain kind...”
– Everything In The Medicine Cabinet Has Expired: Activist, Know Thyself (via greaterthanlapsed)
“Take your profession seriously; don’t take yourself seriously. Don’t take...”
– Clint Eastwood (via thepenguinpress)
“The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step out of the...”
– Salman Rushdie (via everythingisballer)
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Well, Internet…I’m being dismissed from my program. They want me to leave. They accepted me “despite” my language deficiency and now they are kicking me out because of my language deficiency.
I feel angry and betrayed. Professors who told me one thing three months ago are telling me a completely different thing now. I don’t know if they’ll still pay...
“My last piece of advice is this simple… Persevere. Because nothing worthwhile is...”
– President Obama, in his commencement address at Barnard College today (via barackobama)
One of my examiners is running late (we were supposed to have started 10 minutes ago), so I have some time to reflect on what’s to come and how far I’ve come in the last year.
A year ago today, I knew basically nothing about the material on my Master’s Exam. From my finalized list, only a handful of texts are from my undergraduate experience. A year ago today, I couldn’t...
Also, for the first time that I can remember, I had a very clearly anxiety-related dream regarding (again, clearly) my exam.
I dreamed that I was with one of my classmates and one of the professors who will be sitting the exam and I had drunk a lot of coffee but in the middle of talking to the professor I got light headed and passed out. I was laying on the floor, passed out but also omniscient,...
