May 2012
34 posts
d'awww →
sorry my blog’s been a shit show of sap lately.
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“And I want to be on a boat.”
– Shit my boyfriend says.
But really if he can’t come to formal and I already paid for a date who do I take??
gingerhaze:
How to write a paper:
Go on Tumblr for a few hours
Lie on the floor
Cry
hey look this is pretty accurate
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25 Things Sorority Girls Taught Me →
Ready for a Total Sorority Move?
Despite a somewhat unsettling email and a vague lingering sense of uncertainty that I don’t think ever goes away, I am really really really freaking glad I joined DG. I have met some truly wonderful people and maybe it’s the “holy smokes this is the last quarter before I go abroad” talking but I genuinely feel like I am a part of something...
“I grew up hard and am still hard and I don’t care. I did not choose this face or...”
– Margaret Cho (via bigfatfeminist)
Margaret Cho is awesome.
And yeah, it’s a big issue for marginalized groups to feel attractive. WoC in particular have the same issues as white women in that they’re seen as incapable of leadership, punished for being too emotional, punished for being not...
yesiknowiamtall:
girl you a 14 on the pH scale cus you a basic bitch
Look out world, the color of my pants today can only be described as “yellow-green”, aka my favorite crayon color.
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“No way to break the glass ceiling in a cotton diaper”
– Hilary, on Soffe shorts
msjamiekeiles:
the best kind of drunk is the kind where you’re all girl power huggin’ corny sorority shit and you’re like, “OMGGG GIRL LET’S GO TO THE BATHROOOOOOM TOGETHERRRRR” or like “OMG WE HAVE TO DANCE”
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“According to Brooks, current Prime Minister David Cameron used to send her texts...”
– LOL. (via cheatsheet)
“Being a feminist doesn’t mean suddenly no longer liking problematic things. If...”
– (via idontlikemyselfsogoaway)
I was literally just thinking this, I mean it’s just being a socially aware person in general. There are problems in so many things and it’s hard to un-see or not be critical of it once you become aware.
(via crystalsavestheday)
This is so relevant right now.
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Just…how can a brilliant professor who studied under Adorno be so grammatically incoherent. And misspell ”research”. What.
“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be...”
– bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions (via creatingaquietmind)
I believe this to be absolutely true.
(via iexisttolive)
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kairosclerosis
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. the moment you realize that you’re currently happy—consciously trying to savor the feeling—which prompts your intellect to identify it, pick it apart and put it in context, where it will slowly dissolve until it’s little more than an aftertaste.
April 2012
41 posts
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Linguistics-based personality tests →
Apparently I should not be a graphic designer and I pay an inordinate amount of attention to context and function.
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“Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been....”
– ( The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler ) (via a-silly-little-moment)
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“For the first eight years of our marriage, [Michelle and I] were paying more in...”
– President Obama in North Carolina today on why Congress has to act to prevent interest rates on student loans from doubling (via barackobama)
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in which I feel the need to justify everything
Me: (reading from phone) Can I get a footlong on wheat with buffalo chicken and provolone, toasted, with lettuce onions pickles olives green peppers, giardiniera, and spinach?
Subway worker: (judgmental look)
Me: Okay I know that sounds disgusting but it's for my sick boyfriend
Subway worker: okay...
Me: He hasn't eaten all day.
Subway worker: ...
Me: (muttering) I'm getting it for him because he asked me to, not because this is female caretaker instinct kicking in okay
Subway worker: Sorry I don't know how to work the cash register it's my first day
Anonymous asked: Why don't you like your lecture classes?