April 2012
When you and your best guy friend get in your cars at the same time and before leaving you both roll down your windows because you’re both blasting Call Me Maybe and needed the other one to know,
March 2012
You’re like mother teresa sober but like kesha drunk!
– The most apt observation my friends have ever made.
I cannot rest from travel: I will drink
Life to the lees
– Alfred Tennyson “Ulysses” (via takesamuscle)
My students wrote a journal entry this morning on...
What was so beautiful it made them cry? Why it was beautiful, etc.
Lots of responses about volunteer work and places around the world and films and you know typical stuff.
When they asked me what the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen was I said a burrito.
They laughed. I stand by my response.
My father just brought me a cup of tea with...
Wednesday.
Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change...
– Anthony Bourdain (via waywardandwanderlust)
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All of the teachers identified strongly with teaching. They were not ashamed or...
– Workin’ on my portfolio. Noddin’ my head.
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Reading your recommendation letters is a great...
Apparently I am caring, kind, thoughtful, open-minded, creative, hard-working, patient, have a wonderful sense of humor, and genuine ability to connect with kids.
Mind you, this only applies to teenagers, I generally hate most real people.
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This weekend,
I managed to lose my aviators and my debit card and make a decision that I don’t regret yet but I’m sure something will happen that will make me reverse that statement. Yet, I’m oddly okay with everything. I needed a weekend where I didn’t act like a grown-up. That thought will probably change too, I’ll keep ya posted.
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Why don’t you tell me that ‘If the girl had been worth having, she’d have waited...
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via dear-kimberly)
We cannot gain ground by requesting permission to walk there. So perhaps we...
– Why women still can’t enjoy sex (via felixsalmon)
I’ll never be a lady and I’m damn proud of it.
(via elle-oh-elle)
So the kids who had outstanding book dues had to...
We got a copy Of Mice and Men from a student and the first thing we did was look in the center. “Look in the middle he definitely smoked outta this book.” 3 pages missing. He definitely did. Oh kids.
Chaperoning a dance.
I feel like a real teacher. Also all teenagers are awkward. And adorable.
We’re flawed because we want so much more. We’re ruined because we get these...
– Don Draper, Mad Men (via notacliche)
Monday: Mad Men head writer, producer and creator Matthew Weiner, talking about what happens in Sunday’s season premiere. [previously]
(via nprfreshair)
All this talk about “hoodies” & looking “gangsta” yet the most dangerous...
– Hey Fran Hey (via tiportiff)
Miss Elliott, you best come to the first track meet in two weeks, you gotta...
– High school boys are like, the most modest.
People of color, women, and gays—who now have greater access to the centers of...
– Teju Cole, The Atlantic
Click through and read this whole thing. Cole is probably the only person writing about Kony right now and saying something that isn’t lazy and recycled.
(via drinkyourjuice)