January 2012
9 posts
“I enjoy being indoors. I enjoy laying on couches, snacking, and reading...”
– - Adam Scott, on why he hates summer (via evergrowingwonder)
I’m right there with him.
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Four more years
I really do hope Barack Obama is president for another fours years (and will do everything I can to help make it happen) but I couldn’t help thinking about one thing:
How cool is it going to be when the person in front of that podium is a woman? A woman, standing up with what will probably be two men behind her and in front of a room full of more mostly (white) men in front of her, maybe in...
People I graduated high school with are getting...
And not because they’re pregnant or have already had kids.
Is this what the next 15 years will be like?
It's not that often
lauraolin:
That you get 10 months to change the world.
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At risk of coming off as something I am most... →
This may be the most accurate and terrifying and also extraordinarily brave and brilliant.
Don't be a dick during meals with friends →
“Don’t Be A Di*k During Meals With Friends.”
The first person to crack and look at their phone picks up the check.
Our (initial) purpose of the game was to get everyone off the phones free from twitter/fb/texting and to encourage conversations.
Rules:
1) The game starts after everyone has ordered.
2) Everybody places their phone on the table face down.
3) The first person...
How Not To Do Your Twenties: twentysomething new... →
hownottodoyourtwenties:
1. Get a job. 2. Be brave. 3. Care less about looking stupid. 4. Stop trying to see if a diet of frozen yogurt and coffee can sustain human life. It can’t. 5. Spend a little less time with Netflix Instant and a little more time with actual people. 6. Stop playing Words with Friends so much!!! 7. Finish things I start. 8. Travel more. 9. Be generous. 10. Try not to fight...
December 2011
3 posts
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“Two years ago, I was afraid of wanting anything. I figured wanting would lead to...”
– Tyra’s college essay in Friday Night Lights
WE JUST CLAPPED FOR AMANDA LITMAN BECAUSE
whyweclap:
SHE WENT AND GOT US ALL BEER AND SHE CAN’T EVEN DRINK IT BECAUSE SHE’S ALLERGIC TO GLUTEN
SHE HELPED JAY SET UP A MILLION MOBILIZATION EMAILS TONIGHT
SHE’S ALSO IN FINALS WEEK AND WRITING A 10-PAGE PAPER TOMORROW.
Outbound pod, 9:37PM
I’ll do anything for a round of applause.
November 2011
9 posts
Things I am thankful for:
My super-incredible best friends, who when they come home to find me on the couch with a bottle of wine at two in the afternoon, wouldn’t judge me — no, they’d just pour themselves a glass. And who express emotion in the form of haikus. They’re the greatest.
My department, which “makes” me read and talk and write about a topic I love all the god damn time, and...
AL: in other news i just came precariously close to drinking febreeze
AL: because i'm parched and it's the only liquid in my room
AG: why you stop?
AG: oh.
AL: because it's febreeze.
AL: it kills.
AL: ...probably
AG: but your insides would smell so good
It only took three years (and one of those years...
But Evanston has finally become home, and Fairfax is this weird place I’d rather not stay in for too long.
“Of course, splendor isn’t the word that leaps to mind when the average hapless...”
– Roseanne Barr on the joys of menopause.
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October 2011
6 posts
90% of the food I’ve eaten today has been candy corn.
I’m not ashamed.
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September 2011
12 posts
“I like my life like I like my drink: half gin, half tonic.”
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“I have an empty space inside myself that can only be filled by a dog. Not a cat....”
– Roger Ebert, “Life Itself,” which is currently breaking my heart.
“That’s what life in the bubble is like. And the bubble (believing S.H.H.S. and...”
– This is sort of how I feel about college.
I am so very sick of being on crutches. Physical therapy, go faster. Leg, hurt less.
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Watchmotherjones:
kateoplis:
“No means no. No means no if she’s drunk or sober. No means no if she’s in the dorm room or on the street. No means no even if she said yes first and changed her mind. No means no—no matter what. I’m asking all of you, all of you to help get this message out.” —Joe Biden
The video is being released on the 17th anniversary of the passage of his Violence Against Women’s...
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
– The Great Gatsby (by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The fourth new apartment in 12 months
This is it — the last “new apartment” I’ll have for at least nine months, if not a year. After this whirlwind of a shitshow of a blast of a year, what a weird thought. I’ll be sleeping in the same bed, hanging out with the same people, in the same city for the next nine months. Just saying that to myself gives me this little pit of anxiety in my stomach that makes me...
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inforMALIties: Classic. →
From my sister’s study abroad blog:
jessilitman:
Abridged Collection of things on my mind:
…
12. The best way to wake up in the morning is to have a sheep lick your face
How are we even related?
Because I never break tradition
Leaving for Evanston early Thursday morning (so about 36 hours from now) and I have not yet begun packing, or even considered packing.
Although, to be fair, I never really unpacked from moving out of Foggy Bottom, so most of my crap is already in garbage bags. And “packing” tomorrow is actually going to consist of me sitting on my bed, directing my mom around as she puts stuff into...
August 2011
9 posts
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Bachmann: Hurricane Irene Was Message From God. →
motherjones:
…Aaaaaaaaaand scene.
Well that didn’t take very long.
The little things
I’m home, back in Fairfax, and sitting on my couch watching Netflix because the repairman is fixing our television. I have him convinced that I hurt my knee by getting into a bar fight. “You should see the other girl,” I told him. “She was shitfaced.” “What’d she do?” he asked me. “Got up in my space. I politely asked her, she said no, she...
Because I've been a bit of a Debbie Downer...
Things I am thankful for:
My superstellar roommate who cooks for me, cleans for me, brings me things, turns on TVs and lights and music for me, all without saying a thing.
The two dollar bills I have in my wallet that have covered taxi cabs and sushi delivery man tips
That I can touch my toes easily, which allows me to paint my toes, put on my pants, shave my legs and scratch my feet while...
So one of my roommates has this friend who just sucks. She’s in DC for the summer taking a class, and is currently sitting in our apartment eating dinner. She’s doing that thing that people do where they have “so many papers and so many tests” and are “so stressed out” so instead of just sitting down and banging shit out, they spend their time whining and...
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“You are worthy. You have to know that. Maybe you should go look yourself in the...”
Alright, August. You win. I surrender to your almighty August-y power.
The highlights of yesterday’s doctor’s appointment:
He doesn’t think I need an MRI — I definitely tore the tissue under the kneecap, which is why it’s so swollen — but an MRI won’t tell us anything new.
In order for that tissue to heal, the joint needs to be totally immobilized for at least two weeks, probably longer.
I’m genetically inclined to...
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Broken
Saturday night we were at a bar in Columbia Heights called “Wonderland.” It’s a hipster-bar, no doubts about it — lots of plaid, skinny jeans, fedoras and people staring as we danced and danced. I was with Mimi and some of her brother’s friends, and we were having a good time. Somehow we had become the center of the dancing — we kept creating dance circles,...
July 2011
8 posts
When I said my internet was broken, I meant I was...
So for the past month, the internet in our apartment has only worked on Kendra’s computer and not on mine. We figured it must be some problem with our service, but because we didn’t know our account info we couldn’t contact the service provider and get them to come fix it. Turns out, we’re just idiots — all we had to do is restart the router and bam, accio internet....