February 2011
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Learning to Breathe
I feel so much lighter now! After a weekend of deliberating and planning, I decided to cut out the Social Justice part of my designed major and put in Family Social Science instead. I’m always looking through the courses, wishing more would apply to my Family Violence Prevention minor… Then I wondered if I could trade them out. Not only was it super easy, but I won’t have to work...
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January 2011
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“If it is a girl and she survives that vessel, she will not survive the...”
– A true South Asian story.
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“Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many...”
– P!nk (from her father)
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Typical (2)
Jimmy: I'm having a bad day. Tell me that I'm beautiful and you love me.
Me: You're beautiful and I love you.
Jimmy: I DON'T BELIEVE YOU!
Me: Okay wait; can we please make this a bitch-free zone?
Jimmy: I would never come back.
Me: That's the point.
Jimmy: Now who's the bitch?
Me: It's still you, girl.
(I love this man.)
Typical
Jimmy: If I was having a really bad day and wanted to complain, would you listen?
Me: Probably not.
Jimmy: You're my favorite volunteer.
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“Oh, never show your broken heart! Make them think you don’t have one instead.”
– Dorothy Allison
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Preggers
Kurt: I'm gay.
Kurt's Dad: I know.
Kurt: You know?
Kurt's Dad: Since you were three. All you wanted was a pair of sensible heels.
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Whatdya Want From Me
Looking ahead… I think I might finally be at that point where I have too much on my plate. I guess we’ll have to see how these next few weeks play out.
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“Your story. It’s not boring and ordinary, by the way. We just get the one...”
– Tea Leoni in Ghost Town
“I don’t think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no...”
– Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
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“Pretty pretty please, don’t you ever ever feel like you’re less than...”
– P!nk’s F*ckin Perfect
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Important
I’m starting to go through this process of thinking about words in relation to how we perceive things in life, but in a very specific way.
So… I’ve always hated the term “American lives”, because I feel like it’s such a narrow-minded way to look at things. “There was a bombing and 5 American lives were lost…” By saying that the five people who...
What Coughing Through The Night Leads To
Chase: Goodnight.
Me: Goodnight.
Chase: Hope you don't wake up.
Me: Hope YOU don't wake up.
Chase: Oh wow. Now that I think about it, that's really mean!
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That awkward moment
when you realize that if Taylor Swift and Taylor Lautner get married, they would both be Taylor Lautner.
That awkward moment
when it’s 2013.
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TV
Chase: -flipping through channels and announcing each feature- Pretty in Pink! From Justin to Kelly! Jaws! Jaws AGAIN! Apocalypto!! Scream 3!!!
Me: Oh my god it just keeps getting worse...
Chase: ...What do you mean?
That awkward moment
when you try to change your password to ‘my dick’ but the website doesn’t let you because it says it’s too long.
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Minneapolis Schools Pass Landmark LGBT... →
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“I’ve never known any trouble that an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.”
– Charles de Secondat (via lifeofliterature)
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Love in the Present Tense
By Catherine Ryan Hyde (picked up at Bethesda in Wausau for 79 cents). This book was surprisingly delightful. I wavered between whether or not to get this book… In the end I grabbed it both because it was too cheap to resist and because it was an “advanced reading copy”. There’s little notifications all over the cover and spine to not sell this book, how to market it,...
“I couldn’t understand how he could need so much and not see how perfect...”
– Love In The Present Tense by Catherine Ryan Hyde
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“We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in....”
– Richard Dawkins
(via thetumblratheist)
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Deja Dead
Kathy Reichs’ books inspired the TV show Bones- which I LOVE WITH ALL OF MY HEART AND SOUL. So I was like, “Heyyy. The books are probably even BETTER.”
Well. They aren’t. At least, this one wasn’t. It is the first of the series, but still… Reichs, a forensic anthropologist as well, tried very hard to make her work accessible to a general audience....
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Humanism
Found this. Love it with all of my life. What is Humanism?
Humanism is the view that we can make sense of the world using reason, experience and shared human values and that we can live good lives without religious or superstitious beliefs.
Humanists seek to make the best of the one life we have by creating meaning and purpose for ourselves. We choose to take responsibility for our actions and...
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Memoirs, Dr. Kevorkian, & Skin
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden is a novel written in the first-person of a Geisha during World War II. The story follows Sayuri (a name given to her as a geisha) from her childhood in a tiny fishing village to her kidnapping and placement in Kyoto, where she undergoes training to be a very successful geisha. This became a pretty controversial movie (that I haven’t seen) a couple of...
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“Now I know that our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean....”
– Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
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Aggressive
It is nice to return to Wausau. Though I only lived here for five years, those years encapsulated the last three years of high school and the first two of college. (Read: BIG CHANGES.) It is also nice to leave. It only takes a few days before I grow weary of the constant hostility I face here. It’s rarely outright, but I see it in the way people stare, the way the clerks treat me, the heads...
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