October 2011
10 posts
“Every idiot knows that books are better than life. That’s why...”
– Scarlett Johansson in A Love Song for Bobby Long
Things that are infinitely boring
I find as I’m sitting here listening to my eloquent Biochemistry professor drone on about thiohemiacetal intermediates, that perhaps I may have chosen the wrong path in life. How did I, the kid who consumed books at such alarming rate that I got kicked out of the slow reading group (note to self: determine how I ended up in that slow reading group in the first place…perhaps this was my...
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Things that make me shake my head
Lets see if I can break this meeting I had today down in a comprehensible way:
Said meeting was about student insurance, which everyone (grad students, administration, etc) except the insurance company we buy from agrees is too expensive with too little actual coverage. Then Mr. Insurance Man representative gets up to speak…
First: He belittles Universal Healthcare and discusses how...
January 2011
1 post
Saw this on the news yesterday... →
December 2010
14 posts
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“I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it...”
– William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
November 2010
4 posts
Watchyou can tell what i’ve been watching lately..
October 2010
1 post
WatchImagine…after having a bad day…coming home and putting on clothes you want to wear (not the uniform of life that we’re forced to wear to work) and absolutely rocking it out to this song. no holds barred…go ahead. sing it to someone that absolutely makes you feel so damned mad and betrayed…you’ll feel better. promise.
“is that what you call a getaway? tell...
August 2010
1 post
July 2010
4 posts
I just read the definition of a “pedophile” after worrying about the condition of my own soul when my female hormones went into spasms of ecstasy whenever Taylor Lautner took off his shirt in Eclipse. I was relieved to discover that people aged 16 years and older can be considered pedophiles if they have an affinity for children under 16 who haven’t hit puberty. Taylor CLEARLY...
“and we are here, but i already miss you. even as you’re lying next to me.”
WatchThe Bravery- “Ours”
I’ve been playing this on repeat all day on the beach.
June 2010
2 posts
WatchThis video gets ridiculous at about 3:40….
May 2010
6 posts
“It’s the engine that kills you, not the caboose.”
– 28 Days
Oh, so true.
I never had to say goodbye You must have known I wouldn’t stay While you were talking about our life You killed the beauty of today Forever and ever, life is now or never Forever never comes around People love and let go Forever and ever, life is now or never Forever’s gonna slow you down You’ll never see me again So now who’s gonna cry for you? You’ll never see me...
Some good ones from The Wonder Years...
Narrator: It was a strange and passionate time. Some of our dreams dissolved into thin air. They almost seem comical now. But some of our dreams are lasting and real.
Narrator: I guess that’s when it hit me, Winnie wasn’t going to forgive me for the things I said. It could only mean one thing: she wanted me bad.
Narrator: Some people pass through your life and you never think about...
“I am tired, Beloved,
of chafing my heart against
the want of you;
of...”
– -Amy Lowell, “The Letter”
“What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.”
– ~Richard Wilbur
April 2010
12 posts
“Flexibility is just as essential for divinity as is discipline.”
– “Eat. Pray. Love” by Elizabeth Gilbert
it's difficult not to feel a little bit...
i’ll be an open book while you remain to be spread so thin you cannot be seen horizontally in this vertical world. there has come so much from so little -a look, a word, a moment, a thought, a memory- that i have found it impossible to rephrase how each has drove me wild from deciphering the motion of them to an unimaginative mind. love from love can all unravel again from the same moment...
“dont waste your time making someone your priority, while you remain their...”
– my wise friends from home