January 2010
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A week of... salads?
I’m expecting to be feeling a lot of hunger during the next week. My friend and I decided to detox by going vegan until next Friday. My friend (as a surprisingly large number of people here are) has been a vegetarian for almost six years, and on her sixth anniversary this year, she’s planning on turning vegan. This will be her test run.
But as good as the food is here, we pack too...
“What really knocks me out is a book, when you’re all done reading it, you...”
– Holden Caulfield, of J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye
“I hope to hell that when I do die somebody has the sense to just dump me in the...”
– Holden Caulfield, of J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye
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I've been worrying...
… for the past week or two.
I am taking a class this semester that deals a lot with philosophy from the 18th century. It’s a lecture (with a recitation) in which the professor… lectures. The irony being: philosophy + lecture = … what? Socrates would probably be crying silently in a corner. This is kind of related, but perhaps not really.
Before the semester really started...
“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower.”
– Hans Christian Andersen
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Can I just say, shit's going down? →
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This year...
I’m going to…
- go to bed earlier.
- get work done during the day, and not at 4 in the morning.
- stop with the procrastinating.
- eat healthier, and watch my portions. I’m going to keep drinking lots of water and remember to take my meds.
- find a work-study job.
- find time each week for This American Life.
- find time to write things for me, and not for school.
- get,...
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“The integrity of a man’s creative work is of greater importance than any...”
– Howard Roark, of Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead
A side-note thank you
I’ve been hanging to this blog for a while before publishing it. Drafts have been rising in number, and all they did was idle.
I just wanted to thank the friends who inspired me to finally select “publish now” from the drop-down screen. They may have not been conscious of the fueling they did, but thank you anyways.
Sometimes I do hold on to things, waiting for the right...
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Hazel: I'm sometimes your badass guardian angel, other times your guilty conscience.
Marta: ... You're fired.
Hazel: DON'T HATE THE PLAYER, HATE THE GAME. Bam... Badass.
“It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept...”
– Woody Allen
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Home.
I’ve recently written about home, my home, and it’s slow demise. That makes it sound dreadful and medieval perhaps, but I mean it sincerely. The post seemed like a ramble, and it was long and unnecessarily bitter.
I’ve heard it said that it’s not the physical house that makes a home, but the people. I suppose I’ve been shrugging this concept off for a while, but...
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Home?
to belong: (v.) - to fit in a specified place or environment (via Oxford American Dictionary) - loving someone as much as your life (via Urban Dictionary) - to be accepted in a group (via Wiktionary)
I’m leaving for school in a few days to start the spring semester. As each day rolls by, a dawning sensation has begun to fill me. For my entire eighteen years, my parents’ house on...
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“My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream...”
– Thornton Wilder
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Pour quoi?
Why am I adding to the billions of other blogs in current existence? It’s just another that won’t be read.
Because I may perhaps be a selfish being. If I’m not doing it for the billions of people out there (who probably won’t come across this blog), I’m doing it for myself. My thoughts need organization, my mind has never been neatly packaged. The ideas that come from it are scribbled into random...