February 2012
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who knew that sending an email about how i'm going...
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my roommate's old roommate left a bottle of...
and i poured a shot over vanilla ice cream that i had sprinkled cinnamon on
it’s…amazing
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me: i need a new binder
cs: hmmm
me: i wish they made them with zippers.
cs: you could probably get one at walmart with zippers.
me: no, you pretty much can only buy them on the internet.
cs: that's silly. you can definitely find binders at walmart.
me: i mean chest binders.
cs: oh, i thought you meant trapper keepers.
Food On A Stick →
The Wisconsin State Fair’s equivalent of the Texas State Fair’s Fried Everything
what if i entered the pie contest for the...
y/n?
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“I had heartburn yesterday and I thought of you.”
– my roommate
i can never bring myself to do the air spanking in...
#bottomproblems
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epistolary tendencies
I got two letters in one day yesterday, from the same person. I tore through them at the kitchen table, then read them again in bed, then re-read them this afternoon before writing a response to them. I added to the response to an envelope already thick with unsent letters—I have a thing about sending a lot at once, rather than one at a time—and then sealed it and dropped it in the...
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besttumblr:
kiwilovesphotography:
Angel Hall
i go to school/ work in this building
it’s bigger on the inside
and less nice
but i still like it
this is my second home it’s depressing
study dates
me: when's her birthday?
her: october [redacted]
me: ahhh--she's a libra.
her: this is exhausting.
me: what? libras?
her: no.
me: astrology?
her: no. flirting!
crowdsourcing health issues
anyone have opinions about carpal tunnel/wrist braces? anyone out there have carpal tunnel and want to tell me what it feels like and what helped?
misreadings
cs: ugh, i guess i have to start reading "the history of margarita."
me: um, the title is "the story of margaretta."
cs: oh. i saw margarita.
btw i watched weekend and kind of hated it
but still finished it
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This concern with aim or results, with differentiating and passing judgment on various thinkers is therefore an easier task than it might seem. For instead of getting involved with the real issue, this kind of activity is always away beyond it; instead of tarrying with it, and losing itself in it, this kind of knowing is forever grasping at something new; it remains essentially preoccupied with...
For all would-be academics. Please reblog widely. →
charlietangofoxtrot:
astationaryjew:
thewhywhygirl:
phdork:
This may well be the best use of the internet ever: crowd-sourcing adjunct working conditions as way to introduce transparency to and positive pressure on institutions that exploit the holy hell out of their highly skilled and dedicated workers.
Get on it.
$6,800 per 3 crédit course would be heaven since I 1,700 meant forgoing...
gussyyoself:
tonight i went and saw dean spade talk about his latest book titled “normal life.” sometimes i don’t really like to go see well-known authors, figures what-have-yous talk because i feel like they are treated as some sort of star… which they obviously are. like for example angela davis came and talked for less than an hour at Mcgill. but it’s this weird crux in activist...
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every grindr chat ever
person: what brings you to madison?
me: ph.d. in english lit
person: cool
person: "in the room the women come and go talking of michelangelo"
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also
i went to a frou-frou soap store today and tried some zodiac perfume. their taurus scent was wayyyy too sharp and flowery. seriously, a taurus scent needs to be, like, leather and saddle soap, or zucchini bread baking, or petrichor, or water that’s a little too hot in the shower.
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“finish darwin and make a pie. audubon’s bird is pointing at you with its...”
– my new roommate
ben franklin,
i’m just not that into you.
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“To burn always with this hard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is...”
– Walter Pater, from the Conclusion of “Studies in the History of the Renaissance”
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There was an unseasonable thaw at the beginning of February. The snowdrifts in the yards melted and revealed piles of mud; what I thought was just snow turned out to be thrown-out mattresses or discarded desk chairs, now soggy and rotting. Grey water sluiced down the streets, puddling at the curb cuts. Part of the top of my cheap pair of patent boots from the thrift store peeled off from the...
