January 2012
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“I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple...”
– The Fault in Our Stars (via myreligioniskindness)
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"Good intentions ease pain, add to pleasure:... →
This is why I bake things for people.
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“The joy of bourbon drinking is not the pharmacological effect of the C2H5OH on...”
– Walker Percy in “Bourbon, Neat,” quoted by Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Since I first read this essay, when I was perhaps fourteen or fifteen years old, I have remembered that invaluable phrase precisely and used it on occasion: “hot bosky bite.”
For some time, I supposed —stupidly— that...
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Today's coping method
Heat up a half cream, half whole milk mixture, then froth. Make hot chocolate with it. GOD IS THIS EVER DELICIOUS.
I feel better already.
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December 2011
12 posts
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“Civilization, it is immediately apparent, is simply organized resistance to...”
– Hugh Aldersey-Williams (Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements)
… and continued:
“Oxidation betrays the march of time and the inevitable triumph of entropy. The gas gives life, and in doing so brings death closer.”
(via jtotheizzoe)
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My life this week
My big sister is getting fucking married. FUCK YES SHE IS. so happy.
i just ate half a giant box of nerds. Then I discovered the magic of marshmallows dipped in Nutella.
My sister accidentally stole my laptop’s power cord. Confined to tablet. First world problem.
Yesterday I just read a whole book. It was the greatest thing. This semester was so awful that I didn’t even have time to...
“But granted the consciousness that even between the closest people there persist...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters: 1899-1902, trans. Jane Bannard Greene (via sketchofthepast
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Do you need a hug? →
Yes you do. I LOVE ALL THESE PEOPLE. I LOVE ALL PEOPLE. SO MUCH LOVE RIGHT NOW.
This is one of the most boring papers I've ever...
I’m sorry I’ve failed you, ATP synthase. :( You’re still my favorite enzyme.
November 2011
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Thought Catalog: Notes on Stalking my... →
annicka:
My dad (reading from a list of the top 100 happiest cities): actually, New York is at #39! Way above Chicago. Me: yeah, I’m sure that when asked New Yorkers are like “IT’S GREAT I’M SO HAPPY!!!” Kelsey: and those people are actually covered in rats My mom: yeah, they’re stepping over rats to get to the microphone Kelsey: yeah, the New Yorker being interviewed is actually just a...
“But when a saga popular with pre-adolescent girls peaks romantically on a night...”
– NPR’s Linda Holmes reviews Twilight Breaking Dawn, Pt. 1 (via danikamcclure)
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It's Okay To Be Smart: Induction ceremony for The... →
jtotheizzoe:
Welcome to the first day of the rest of your life.
From this day forward you will carry the mantle of science high in the air, proudly displaying it for all to see. Sometimes you may carry it through dark places, where men of ignorant minds and steely hearts threaten your path.
Sometimes you…
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Places I have been or will go this semester
NYC
Iowa City
Providence
Boston
Philly
Charlotte
LA
Winston-Salem
Greensboro
Results:
exhausted
broke
GPA hit
My explorer self is satisfied.
I feel more like myself than I have in a while.
hopefully - an acceptance to med school
I am a lucky person.
October 2011
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