May 2013
3 posts
Why is the common room playing a series if songs likely to make me an emotional train wreck when I need to focus on this essay? I want to go back to S Club…
“The futures in our eyes and we will never be the same again…these are the...”
Still working at 10:30.
this requires Taylor Swift and Bastille.
April 2013
14 posts
“To be great, be whole;
Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you.
Be...”
– Fernando Pessoa, Poems of Fernando Pessoa (via divine-despair)
fernando meu grande amigo
(via este-mundo-e-meu)
Getting distracted from my economics essay by listening to interesting peoples’ interesting conversations…
“You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the...”
– Woodrow Wilson
(via her0inchic)
“I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain or stop questioning life and take the easy way out.” - Sylvia Plath
I will keep working hard, but won’t let my relationships be the victim of it. I will value the people who are good in my life & work on those relationships. I will do slightly less (slightly) but do the things I do to the best of...
I just had the best three hour skype convo with my friend and then the best facebook convo with another friend and excellent chats with excellent people in twitter and Taylor Swift and Bastille and pasta and broccoli and barcardi and I still have a tonne of stuff to do but I have some clarity about how to get through it and I’m gonna start on it by contacting a few societies now and...
“ah of course when in need of a comparison always look to germany”
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
A year ago I stood on the roof of Parliament…
“Be a champion, be a champion, be a champion, be a champion
On the walls of the...”
March 2013
12 posts
lexcanroar: from 'If I Admit That 'Hating Men' Is... →
Part Four: A List of “Men’s Rights” Issues That Feminism Is Already Working On
Feminists do not want you to lose custody of your children. The assumption that women are naturally better caregivers is part of patriarchy.
Feminists do not like commercials in which bumbling dads mess up the…
Finished reading Please Don’t Come Back From the Moon yesterday. Really good…sort of the flip side of the coin to The Great Gatsby. But also just excellently written and sad but not self-pitying, and life affirming in it’s way. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/157164.Please_Don_t_Come_Back_from_the_Moon
I think the part of my brain that really does love and appreciate what I do just started working again for the first time in ages.
It’s nice.
February 2013
11 posts
“No matter how good things are, there will always be solitary nights you spend in...”
– Dan “Soupy” Campbell (via cut-ties-t0theanch0r)
Facebook was hacked by China?
Wow.
OK.
I’m just gonna go sit in a corner and not speak in case anyone else yells at me.
slings & arrows: Functional me and non functional... →
hermionejg:
Functional me and non functional me are so different that I spend a decent amount of my time as functional me deriding non functional me for being lazy or dramatic (which I suppose in turn creates non functional me because how are you supposed to have any energy to take on the world when all of…
John Green's tumblr: Tonight →
fishingboatproceeds:
Muslims and Christians and Jews and atheists gathered together as nerdfighters in a rehabbed monastery in Manchester.
Olympic gymnast and all-around lovely person Jennifer Pinches hosted Question Tuesday.
I read about the Literal Heart of Jesus while standing in a monastery’s cruciform church…
Oh good...
Oh hi all the things I need to prepare for my year out.
This was a highly inconvenient time for that email to arrive.
(although to be fair it’d have probably been even worse if it’d arrived later).
So much to doooo.
January 2013
67 posts
hermionejg:
notabadday:
David Tennant...
Up watching Gossip Girl clips and Dan and Blair and so cute and perfect and oh why oh why not?!
“The consequence of this is that I’m always finding humans at their best and...”
– The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The universe’s campaign for the words “damnit Zusak!” to be my first tattoo continues.
(via hermionejg)
Immigration Equality for Same Sex Couples →
kaeandlucy:
Currently, it’s illegal for same sex couples to apply for an American Visa, even if one partner is an American citizen. As an individual in a binational (United States and England) same sex relationship, I believe I should have the equal right to live with my partner in the country in which I was raised. Nancy Pelosi just sponsored a bill before Congress to allow equal rights to...
“Cause I have other things to fill my time
You take what is yours and I’ll...”
“It’s empty in the valley of your heart
The sun, it rises slowly as you...”
“Our journey is not complete until our wives, our mothers, and daughters can earn...”
– President Obama, second inaugural address (via barackobama)
