February 2012
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Personal problems:
I created a Mitt Romney meme that I am too nervous to put online.
My bf’s parents want to upgrade my iPhone to the 4, but I am too proud to accept their money. My current phone is terribly broken.
I miss hanging out with my former friend’s mom, but not my former friend.
My mom is coming to visit this weekend, and I haven’t even started cleaning.
I get so caught up in my...
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WatchWatch this!
& listen to Ólafur Arnalds - Fok, found HERE.
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Watch
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Apple Supplier to Raise Salaries →
Foxconn Technology, one of the world’s largest electronics manufacturers and the main supplier for Apple, announced it will sharply raise salaries and cut overtime at its factories in China. The move comes after growing public criticism of working conditions at the factories—where suicide nets have put in place on the building’s sides after a rash of deaths—and employees often have to work...
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Can't handle this.
I just read this (Seriously Michelle Obama? Thanks for Banning King-Sized Candy Bars) article which is nothing but a rant toward Michelle Obama for the discontinuation of king-sized candy bars.
It goes something like this:
Srsly Michelle Obama?! Why are you trying to fight obesity in America with portion control? Don’t you know that we, the ignorant of America, prefer to think that a...
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How to Become Meryl Streep
And suddenly I realize… perfection is a lot of work.
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10 Ways the CIA Tried to Kill Castro
mentalflossr:
#10: Poisoned Milkshake
I studied this! Latin American Revolutions, ftw! Also, CIA — shame on you. Shaaaame.
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I get it!
I get what all the hype is about for Valentine’s Day: it is the one designated day of the year that you get to be publicly mushy. Today, no one can condemn you for breaking social etiquette to admit just how much you care about your special person.
It also reminds you of the various types of love in your life: friends, family, co-workers, pets, classmates — certain affectionate bonds...
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6 Books Everyong (Including Your English Teacher)... →
Now, you don’t have to read ‘em!
Although I’ve read The Prince alongside with Discources, and, in the words of my professor, “Machiavelli was not, in any sense, a true Machiavellian.” Shwing!
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I should drink more water
or less coffee. Or continue drinking coffee, but invest in stocks.
This is how my brain feels:
Hmm.
“The days are nouns: touch them
The hands are churches that worship the world”
– Naomi Shihab Nye, from “Daily” (via the-final-sentence)
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Happy Groundhog Day!
Six more weeks.
“You will have to learn everything all over again.”
– Jay McInerney, from Bright Lights, Big City (thanks, carissahalston)
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January 2012
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"Love Is Not an Emergency"
by Erin Belieu
more like weather, that is ubiquitous, true
or false spring: the ambivalence we have for any picnic—
flies ass-up in the Jell-O; the soft bulge of thunderheads.
Right now, the man in the booth next to me at the Nautilus Diner, Madison, New Jersey,
is crying, but looks up to order the famous disco fries.
So the world’s...
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