March 2012
“Island of the Blue Dolphins was my first really sad book, and I’m pretty sure...”
– The Well-Readheads: On Tearjerkers (via bookriot)
Oh good to know since I have to read this for the AP Lit class I’m teaching in a few weeks.
February 2012
It's leap day y'all.
In the spirit of Liz Lemon - do something completely out of the ordinary today!
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Maybe two days ago →
drinkyourjuice:
Maybe two days ago
I realized that I miss hammock culture. Not like, buggy-backyard hammock or mildewy-never-used-hammock, but a straight up comfortable lakeside hammock. Maybe a book to read. Nothing on your itinerary for days and days. I haven’t had that in a while.
I even went so far as to think that a hammock might be something I’d want at a future point. A lakeside...
Pras ft. ODB and Mya - Ghetto Superstar
New From Junot Díaz →
bookriot:
ALL THE EXCLAMATION POINTS!
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“Don’t you see? We’re actors. We’re the opposite of people!”
– Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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“I like the person version of himself, but I don’t like the text message...”
– Y’all, my friends have real people problems.
my favorite thing about life at the moment is its...
Lesson planning hungover.
Oof. I wonder if I can work whiskey sours are bad news into a lesson on eulogies.
“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via wassupyall)
“I do things like get in a taxi and say, “The library, and step on it.”
– David Foster Wallace (via 4mbivalent)
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etymologie: The secret of success is concentrating... →
The secret of success is concentrating interest in life, interest in sports and good times, interest in your studies, interest in your fellow students, interest in the small things of nature, insects, birds, flowers, leaves, etc. In other words to be fully awake to everything about you & the more you learn the more you can appreciate & get a full measure of joy & happiness out...
“Your vices will destroy you.
One thing Dahl understood better than almost any...”
– The Roald Dahl Survival Guide For Kids (via bookriot)
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I wanted to be sexy. Sexy was small, thin, petite.... →
takesamuscle:
I wanted to be sexy. Sexy was small, thin, petite. So I stopped eating. Beautiful was long hair, past the shoulders, down the back. So I grew my hair longer. Sexy was more more skin, shorter and tighter clothes. So I wore them short and tight. Beautiful was giving in and giving it up, pleasing and giving it my all. So I pleased and gave in. I didn’t want to be cute or sweet or...
BALANCE
anthropologie:
a state of equilibrium; mental steadiness or emotional stability; an instrument for determining weight