December 2008
66 posts
“Not all wounds are superficial. Most wounds run deeper than you can imagine. You...”
– Greys Anatomy (via littlemiss) (via shegoesbam) (via kari-shma)
“Be careful when speaking. You create the world around you with your words.”
– (via littlemiss) (via kari-shma)
Yay, I’m done with buying all my Christmas gifts, thanks to our downtown shopping date earlier today!! They’re all wrapped and attached to sparkly cards, so my job this Christmas is done. Time to relax, and enjoy as much of break as I can before the stress of finals gets to me. Lunch & dinner plans for tomorrow, Christmas party on Tuesday, chilling with the cousin on Wednesday,...
A Word About Karma
juliaallison:
We are completely responsible and completely accountable for our lives. We get away with nothing. What could be fairer, more just or ethically sound? We live in a moral universe, whose foundations are absolute justice and absolute responsibility. Rejoice, all ye who have grieved or raged at the world’s shoddy standards in these matters. Neither George Bush, Dawood Ibrahim, nor any...
Life is too short to do things just because you fell into it. Instead, for this new year, I want to actively seek out the things that I want to be doing because they are meaningful to me and not because they fell into my lap.
Also, I’m really proud of myself for coming out today and seeing everyone. This is going to be a fantastic break!
OMG Michael Cera in the first few episodes of Arrested Development = even more awkward (also, chubby) if you can imagine that. Adorable!! I love not having work.
“A person is only beautiful, when their own beauty, is reflecting on to others.”
– Tara Grady (via kari-shma)
Harvard is the weirdest place ever.
I’m pretty sure that this isn’t how the real world operates.
Putting down your most sincere and deepest...
amandoline:
(via thebrightsideoflife)
“THE MYTH: Religious activities such as meditation, prayer, and reading the Bible...”
– Mythbusters, Psychology Today
Tikkun →
Their Core Vision:
“We in the Tikkun Community use the word “spiritual” to include all those whose deepest values lead them to challenge the ethos of selfishness and materialism that has led people into a frantic search for money and power and away from a life that places love, kindness, generosity, peace, non-violence, social justice, awe and wonder at the grandeur of creation,...
“Barack Obama’s first book, the memoir of a mixed-race man, is terrific. Outside...”
– “Typing Without a Clue,” New York Times
“The reason teasing is viewed as inherently damaging is that it is too often...”
– New York Times Magazine
“Go placidly amid the noise and the haste,
and remember what peace there may be...”
– Max Ehrmann, 1927
From Tess
It’s beautiful.
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists...”
– Albert Camus (via psychotherapy)
“By marrying too soon, many individuals sacrifice their chance to struggle...”
– Augustus Napier, The Family Crucible (via psychotherapy) (via cakeface)
“It didn’t matter, by the end, that I didn’t truly like most of the...”
– Ross Gregory Douthat
Jessie sent me a chapter in Ross Gregory Douthat’s Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class. Apparently, it was reading for some class that her friend is taking, and this chapter was the one about final clubs.
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that I never got to enjoy the holiday-themed Thursday dinner, because I was too busy rushing off to write another paper. Instead, I stole a slice of pumpkin pie on a napkin and ate it on my way out, like it was a burrito or something. It’s okay, the simple pleasures, right? Oh, my life at Harvard.
WatchAnd on that note, Lisa Simpson is my hero.
The 6 Most Problematic Barbies →
While we’re talking about Barbies and Kens…
My personal favorite, the Slumber Party Barbie:
“In 1965, Mattel came out with Slumber Party Barbie. Along with the Barbie doll, the package also came with pink fuzzy bathroom slippers, a scale that read 110 pounds, and a book entitled: “How to Lose Weight” whose contents read, in entirety, “Don’t Eat” (it was much easier to get a...
Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk, Rufus Wainwright
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God, I have the best TF ever…. This weekend is going to be shitty as hell, but at least I won’t be failing a class.
Guilty procrastination
I’m on Tumblr while trying to start/finish a final paper about Flickr due tomorrow at 5 — probably not the best combination. Everytime I see a great photo, I feel guilty for wanting to reblog it instead of writing about it. Back to work, I guess…
