August 2011
2 posts
3 tags
1 tag
June 2011
6 posts
“Bookaholics are the ones who start to feel uncomfortable and uneasy in another...”
– Robert Lee Hadden (via bookoasis)
“There is something more to coffee than its caffeine stimulus, its action on the...”
– William H. Ukers, All About Coffee (via bookoasis)
May 2011
11 posts
Challenges
I had this English teacher my Senior year of high school. She didn’t write essential questions on the board every day or pass out a Learning-Focused graphic organizer for every class discussion. But you could just feel that she loved it when she would talk about a text, and she made her students want to love it the way she did. Now, I am certainly not saying that essential questions and...
“NOT EVERY ANSWER IS EQUALLY CORRECT IN LITERATURE. For example, if you think The...”
– John Green: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jFQR2FUEm4 (via welldonecat)
“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
She's obviously talking about post-grad life
Holly Golightly: You know those days when you get the mean reds?
Paul Varjak: The mean reds, you mean like the blues?
Holly Golightly: No. The blues are because you're getting fat and maybe it's been raining too long; you're just sad that's all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you're afraid, and you don't know what you're afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling?
Paul Varjak: Sure.
Holly Golightly: Well, when I get it the only thing that does any good is to jump in a cab and go to Tiffany's. Calms me down right away. The quietness and the proud look of it, nothing very bad could happen to you there. If I could find a real-life place that'd make me feel like Tiffany's, then, then I'd buy some furniture and give the cat a name!
“And now Harry, let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress,...”
– Albus Dumbledore
Whenever I look out into my very uncertain future, I think about this quote from my favorite fictional teacher.
April 2011
3 posts
March 2011
1 post
WatchThis is the best wedding video I have ever seen. I could watch it seven times every day. It doesn’t hurt that they are in my favorite town of all time (and adopted home). Somebody hire this guy for me. And take me home to Monte. Gah!
And for those of you with short attention spans, here is a shorter “trailer” version of the film.
P.S. If the look on the groom’s face at...
January 2011
7 posts
“We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think...”
– John Green, Looking for Alaska
December 2010
11 posts
I got an iTunes gift card for Christmas. What should I buy?
butterflynet asked: Hey girl, I'm sorry--I wasn't trying to make blanket statements about anybody at all, I was just talking about how I would personally feel about it. I'm not implying that YOU are saying "look at me I'm taken la la la he went to Jarred" by wearing a ring, I'm saying that I might feel like the ring was doing that for me and be self-conscious about it. I think...
November 2010
17 posts
A Name of One's Own
I’ve thought long and hard about this, and maybe I should just keep my feelings to myself. But I’ve always prided myself on being honest about who I am. I only have one face, and it’s this one. So I am going to come out. Better late than never.
I am a feminist.
There. I said it. No modifiers. No “but not the hairy kind,” and no “but not the Femi-Nazi...
