June 2010
4 posts
Atheist Rap →
Love love love this song!
“Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.”
– Clay Shirky (via soupsoup) (via manspeaker)
May 2010
13 posts
“We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that...”
– Chuck Palahnuik [S.S.A. Unit Chief Aaron Hotchner (Thomas Gibson), Criminal Minds] (via eunichick) (via quote-book)
“Take the high road, it’s far less crowded.”
– Charlie Munger (via jared) (via quote-book)
“Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought...”
– Robert Louis Stevenson (via tapwaterjackson) (via quote-book)
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An End
I feel as if I should have something profound to say here. Something about finally accomplishing a goal that has been there for my entire life.
But really, at this moment, I’m burned out.
I will start writing for me again soon. It is what I want to do with my life, after all. But right now, I just want to relax. To smile. To enjoy my life.
I also want to read for me(already started by...
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“There’s no such thing as ‘for sure’. That’s the only sure thing I do know.”
– A Beautiful Mind (via filmquotes)
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Struggling For Focus
I’m approaching 3 hours into my work shift today. In that time, I’ve written 2 essays for my popular literature final(not saying they are great essays, but they are essays). Focusing for the 3rd(and final) of the essays for that final is becoming a problem.
I’m giving myself 15 minutes before I have to buckle down and do nothing but write on that essay, so in the meantime let me...
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Finals
I am a few keystrokes(okay a lot of keystrokes) away from finishing my college career. It has been a fun ride. I’ve met people who mean the world to me. I’ve also met people who I wouldn’t care if I never saw them again. That’s life for ya.
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“I’ve learned that to overcome life’s obstacles you need faith, hope and, above...”
– Ghost World (via filmquotes)
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“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when...”
– Oscar Wilde (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
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“It’s such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.”
– For One More Day, Mitch Albom (via 500daysofkissingmypillow) (via quote-book)
Yesterday, in Western Civ, we watched a holocaust documentary that was narrated by the guy who does the voice-over work for the Law & Order franchise. Everytime he’d do a bit of narration I expected the chung-chung sound followed by Benson and Stabler coming out to arrest the Nazis.
So much wrong with my brain.
“Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.”
– Mark Twain (via quote-book)
April 2010
31 posts
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My Dream Vacation
My love of technology is known. I love my computer, my PS3, my XBOX360, and my iPhone as much as anybody could. But I have a dream vacation that doesn’t involve any of that.
That vacation(that I am moving closer to making a reality) involves me(and possibly a companion or two) getting in a car, with no destination in mind, and driving. This may seem simple, but it gets complicated when I...
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Technology is Cool Sometimes.
I’ve been watching a lot of Law & Order:SVU lately streaming on NetFlix at work(my job isn’t exactly what you would call stressful). It has made me thankful for some of the modern conveniences that we are given.
I remember, within the past decade, that if I wanted to watch a TV show that aired as recently as last night, that I had better have set my VCR to record it(and hoped to...
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I must really need sleep.
I was just using StumbleUpon, as I am known to do, when I came across a page titled “Dresses made from GARBAGE”(emphasis in the original). The reason this made me realize I needed sleep was that, while waiting for the page to load the pretty pictures, my only thought was “Did they make the dresses out of Shirley Manson or just Garbage CDs?”
For some reason, it did not...
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Random Girl Walking into Wescoe: He's 26, I don't even understand why he's bothering going to school.
Me: (dumbfounded look)
“With no power comes no responsibility.”
– Kick-Ass (via filmquotes)
“My aim is not to offend, it is to entertain. But also, perhaps, to educate a...”
– The Count, The Boat That Rocked. (via quote-book)
Great sentiment.
“When I get sad, I stop being sad, and be awesome instead. True Story.”
– Barney Stinson, How I Met Your Mother (via quote-book)
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Insomnia(of an unusual sort for me)
Sleep has been problematic for me of late. Historically, this has been a sign of me being mired in the pits of depression. It is, typically, paired with a lack of appetite and my urge to avoid all human contact.
This is not, at all, the case this time.
I’m actually in a healthy, happy place(almost without exception). My fledgling relationship is going swimmingly. My elimination of negative...
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Odd Juxtaposition
We’re watching Man on Wire in my recent popular literature class. It is a movie about a man obsessed with performing a high-wire walk, with no net, between the two towers of the World Trade Center. Early in the film, they show scenes of the towers being constructed. These scenes have an eerie similarity with the scenes of rescue workers digging through the rubble on the exact same site that...
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Goodness Gracious
I had no idea that children, en masse, could be gracious.-Rupert Giles, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
I just read a remarkable story in the local paper. In a nearby small town the high school held a special graduation ceremony for a single member of their senior class. Why? Because he has been fighting bone cancer for a year and, in all likelihood, won’t be able to take part in the traditional...
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“If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am....”
– Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower) (via justbesplendid) (via quote-book)
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Success
I feel like I’ve lost 180 pounds. I am smiling, I am laughing, I am enjoying the people I work with - I gotta snap outta this.-Toby Ziegler, The West Wing
My world is different today than it ever has been before.
I am having successes, personally and professionally(or semi-professionally). I’m happy most of the time. I’m focused on my classes, my reading, my homework....
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Looking Forward To It
I’ve started to plan for my post-collegiate life. Does this mean that I’ve begun looking for a job? Barely. What it does mean is that I’ve begun considering what books I need to read ASAP.
I’ve always been a voracious reader but have let the concept of reading for pleasure and personal enrichment fall by the wayside during my five(yes, five) years of college. This is...
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“I don’t want to inconvenience you by asking you to come to class that day.”
– My Popular Literature Professor when asking me to run the A/V equipment next Monday.
This guy is seriously a quotation machine. I enjoy him when I go(too bad the rest of the discussion isn’t as entertaining).
“I don’t believe in guilt. I believe in living on impulse as long as you never...”
– Angelina Jolie (via lostinthesounds) (via quote-book)
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do...”
– Mark Twain (via thoughtsdetained) (via quote-book)
“‘It is well-written but I wouldn’t want to read it again’ is...”
– My Popular Literature Professor
One Day At A Time
“I’m so proud of you for dealing with your stuff.”
One of my professors, who I also count as a friend, said this to me today after I told her of my new tactics for eliminating destructive forces in my life.
“Wanted to say, I’m proud of you for clearing out your life.”
Different friend. Different moment. Same sentiment. Same reason. Same unmitigated pride.
I...
“Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies.”
– Dave Attell
Cleansing My Life
I have a history of letting people walk all over me. This occurs in friendships, romantic relationships, work, and every other possible type of interpersonal interaction. It comes from my urge(need) to be a nice guy. My need to be liked(loved).
It is time to change this.
Last night, I was told, not for the first time, that a woman that has long called me her friend has been telling people how...
“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure...”
– Albert Einstein
Shame
“I have no problem with gays. But when they start kissing in front of me it really pisses me off.”
I heard this clever comment as I walked by the Queers and Allies Pride Week display on campus. The two friends of the guy who said it couldn’t wait to get their agreement in. I shook my head and thought that they should be ashamed of themselves. But I didn’t say anything to...
“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a...”
– Leo Buscaglia (via quote-book)
A friend is going through something that I would never wish on anybody. I just hope she knows that her friends are here for her.
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you...”
– Ferris Bueller | Submitted by kate-kate-kate (via quote-book)
Change is not made without inconvenience, even...
(The title of this post comes from a quotation that I stumbled upon by Richard Hooker. It seemed appropriate for me at the moment.)
I’ve spent the majority of my life living for other people. I’ve given up my hopes, my dreams, my desires for those of others. I moved from my hometown when I was 14 because my mom wanted to. I became the caretaker for my mother from the age of 16 till I...
“My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known—no wonder, then, that I...”
– Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855)
“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling...”
– Jack Kerouac (via quote-book)
“#4: Be in love with your life.”
– Jack Kerouac | Submitted by hamiltonian (via quote-book)
8 AM Class Musings
8 AM class is akin to root canal. I like the professor. Don’t hate the subject. Indifferent to the majority of the class. But sitting in a room, listening to a lecture, sniffing and itching, is pure misery. Random thoughts recorded below will serve as my saving grace today.
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“His skepticism about religion started at a very young age”
While the professor meant...
“Sometimes, if all you have is old words, all you can do is put them together and...”
– J.D., Scrubs | Submitted by: sleepyjean (via quote-book)
March 2010
85 posts
