January 2011
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- I hate it when you’re in a class of college students and you’re supposed to be having a discussion and no one speaks (except for you, one other student, and the professor and then you come off as a suck-up, know-it-all). You’re in college people! Presumably this means that you have some verbal skills acquired through high school education. Even if you didn’t do the...
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50 Books Challenge 2011 - Book Four
4. Franny and Zooey - J. D. Salinger I don’t care if it makes me hipster. J. D. Salinger is one of my favorite writers. I’ve read all his stories and novels multiple times. This is the third time I’ve read Franny and Zooey* and the first time I’ve read it in college. Each time I return to this book, I relate to it on a different level. This time around it was intensely...
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“I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful...”
–  Dorothy Parker
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“Out of the bosom of the Air, Out of the cloud-folds of her garment shaken,...”
– Henry Wordsworth Longfellow, Snowflakes
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Listen
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“I’m not a concept. Too many guys think I’m a concept or I complete them or I’m...”
– Clementine, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (via simplify-)
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Sometimes Tumblr makes me feel old because I look...
Posting that last cheesy quote…reminded me of when I was 14 and we didn’t have Tumblr. We only had our AIM profiles.
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50 Books Challenge 2011 - Book Three
3. Half Broke Horses by Jeanette Walls I actually finished the book last Tuesday but I was caught up in syllabus week and forgot to make a post about it.  I was in charge of breaking the horses. It wasn’ like breaking wild mustangs, because our horses had been around us since they were foals Most times I simply climbed on bareback—if the horse was too skinny, its spine sometimes...
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Don't smoke. It'll kill ya.
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WatchWatch
Let’s start the weekend. M.I.A. - Internet Connection (Flux Pavilion Remix)
Jan 20th
Is there anything sadder than the last cigarette...
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Jan 19th
Reading King Lear, Othello, AND Hamlet in my...
(I love being an English major)
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ListenI am not Jasmine, I am Aladdin. [Note: I know...
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“For I have known them all already, known them all:— Have known the evenings,...”
– T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
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