January 2011
38 posts
And now I'm watching Zombieland...
Today was like No-Effort-Required-I’m-A-College-Student-Waddaya-Want day in terms of cooking.
Breakfast:Raspberries in yogurt.
Lunch: Alphaghetti (yup, the alphabet noodles in tomato sauce in a can. GOURMET)
Dinner: Tuna w/ mayonnaise.
And then I just snacked on (read: finished) a 12 ounce bag of baby carrots, cinnamon hearts and those mint singles chocolates. Mission to live and eat...
On the Road I Dream of Home
I’m having one of those days when I miss everything about home. I miss my puppy (who is not really a puppy anymore at 9 years old), I miss my parents, I miss my younger cousins and I miss my friends. It’s just impossible to placate myself.
I texted my aunt and told her I missed my cousin’s (her children’s) faces and hugs. And she replied that she had been cuddling her...
Featuring the Brilliant Work of Sarah Hertz
SCENE I. SS 010. In the middle, a boiling teapot. Thunder. Enter the three Witches First WitchThrice the brinded prof hath mew’d. Second WitchThrice and once the students whined. Third WitchSemester cries ‘Tis time, ‘tis time. First WitchRound about the teapot go;In the unread entrails throw.Book, that under cold bedDays and nights hast all last FallOozing venom, no sleep...
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Trying to be a Better Feminist
Things I’m trying to incorporate into my life…
- stop buying fashion/”women’s” magazines (so far, so good)
- don’t use words like “slut”, “whore” or any type of sex negative term (I’m usually pretty good about this, sometimes I slip)
- don’t say “that/you/this sucks” because this is homophobic (although this is...
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“What is abundantly clear is that ending discrimination against women will...”
– The Equality Illusion, Kat Banyard
“My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire...”
– Sylvia Plath (via petitefeministe)
Explanation for The Other Night
Burn, baby, burn.
I’m going to burn a hole through my tongue with all these cinnamon hearts being shoved into my mouth at 65 handfuls/hour. But these are the only good thing about the Valentine’s “season” which starts January 2nd and finishes February 16th (not 15th, all those forgetful boyfriends and girlfriends have to buy something the next day!) just as they start putting out green...
Do Nothing for Two Minutes →
petitefeministe:
Not that dissimilar to the entire rest of my day, but lovely nonetheless.
Awful Awful Awful
I think every once in a while you have to do something that makes you feel awful, so you can remember why you don’t do those kinds of things, or see those people anymore. Like how occasionally I have to get drunk (and then sick) to remember why I don’t go out and drink socially.
That sounds pretty bad.
I’m going to be good starting tomorrow. Promise.
“Tough times never last, but tough people do.”
– Rovert H. Schuller
“I like people too much or not at all. I’ve got to go down deep, to fall into...”
– Sylvia Plath (via petitefeministe)
Re: Winston
Regarding my previous post, I really hope to still hold my liberal views when I’m forty, fifty, eighty, one hundred-and-ten. I sort of hate that my values can and may change over time. A change in values can be a particularly fantastic thing too, but I’ll return to that.
“If you’re not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you’re not a...”
– Sir Winston Churchill
These Limping Days
“Nothing is as tedious as the limping days, When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways, And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom, Assumes control of fate’s immortal loom” — Paris Spleen, Charles Baudelaire
“On a cloudy night when friends were few, I closed my eyes and thought of you, a...”
– Anonymous.
“There is no such thing as being non-political. Just by making a decision to stay...”
–
Joan Kirner at the Women into Power conference, Adelaide (1994)
Yes.
“For example, we’re on Sarah Palin’s targeted list, but the thing is, that the...”
– Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in an interview with MSNBC, 2010 (via reallyfoxnews)
A Fair Trade
Things I will be giving up:
- anxiety
- guilt
- the annual ski trip
- varsity brunch (I’ll decide tomorrow if thats really losing something, but then again, it is free breakfast…)
- speaking of, no post-practice breakfasts with teammates :(
- likelihood of my head coach writing me a reference letter
- stress of figuring out where I’ll be rowing next summer on top of...
“Deciding to get back together with someone is a complicated and difficult...”
– He’s Just Not That Into You (via lilaznkutey)
Resolution?
Next time I freak out, somebody just slap me and tell me to go to the gym.
“Don’t lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of...”
– Ralph Marston (via lilaznkutey)
Dark Post of the Month
As I sit here in my tension riddled apartment and contemplate the source of my growing sense of anxiety and unhappiness, I realize that nothing makes me feel good about myself anymore. I used to draw my feelings of self worth from my accomplishments, but these days I don’t feel very accomplished. I feel like a below average student, a below average rower, and someone who fails at forming and...
Fuck You Jet Lag!
Jet lag sucks. ZZZZzzzzZZZ.