October 2011
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I got an A+ on the first midterm since being back at school.
I’m proud and it’s going to help motivate me to finish a class that I have issues with.
It’s also motivating me to change my writing style. I’ve eschewed capital letters for years online. I’m going back to being classically, correctly punctuated. My writing needs to be a tool, sharp and precise, not...
“Caring about women doesn’t make me a man-hater. Caring about the rights and...”
– (via thehumorlessfeminist)
when people assume self-identifying as “feminist” is code for “man-hater”. every time i’m blown away that love for others can be so misconstrued.
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i saw portishead last night and they blew me away.
wandering star gave me powerful, full-body shivers. they played glory box and it was glorious, sexy, but more than sexy, an exaltation of human emotion and sexuality.
i went by myself and watched them, eyes lambent and hands clasped. it was amazing. i’m incredibly glad i went, though when i left my house the last thing i wanted to do was...
we must express compassion for smallness.
not every gesture can be grand.
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Watchglittering horizons.
woop there it is.
i like to play this while biking fast at night.
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“And the world will not discourage you from operating on your default settings,...”
– David Foster Wallace (via roadsidelions)
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“You don’t have to be pretty. You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your...”
– Erin (via sixtiesgroove)
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old poetry
november, 2009
i could feel your presence as
a thread running parallel to mine
a separate dialogue in the same story
and when we met, i heard
the echo of fate at work,
a shock of future recognition
and somehow knew you would be my lover
even in the selfconscious
sideways flicker of eyes held for the first time
your fingerprints
were already inside me
i knew
exactly
how to kiss you.
...
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“Dearest one,
Greetings. My Name is Mrs. Carolyn Halla, I am 68 Years old and reside in London, England. I will have to be brief as i am very weak at the moment. I lost my husband in November 5th 2005 in an Auto Car accident along side my Two Sons and my lovely Daughter. After the great loss, i managed my husbands investments until my present Medical Condition developed. I was diagnosed...
