February 2012
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My bets for today's Superbowl:
johngreenismypatronus:
Ireland will win, but Krum will catch the Snitch.
Highlights of the only time I (was forced to) watched the Superbowl: It was a red team versus a yellow team and everyone thought the red team was going to win, but because of some player named Grimm, the yellow team did.
January 2012
9 posts
My (probably) absurd goal for DC is to go somewhere new everyday.
It seems like this is not something I should commit myself to - I have a full time internship starting in two weeks (so much excitement there) and I’m taking three seminars (which is one class short of a full load, but see above about full time internship). On the other hand, I’m in a massive awesome city, so how hard...
I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is improbably...
– Another chapter in the saga of John Green summing up my thoughts better than I ever could.
I was trying to go with a pack for half hour, chapter of TFIOS, but I gave in and just powered through the second half of the book. I saw a bunch of the plot coming from a mile away but oh my god, I’m...
December 2011
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Win of the Evening
Skimming over Sacerdotalis Caelibatus to discover that Pope Paul VI basically wrote my paper for me.
(He didn’t, to be clear. I have six pages of me discussing my theory and I needed some priestly quotes and the guy provided. More than provided. Like exact language I need.)
How much I enjoy this topic (celibacy in the Catholic priesthood, religious theory of right now, to be expanded to...
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December.
November 2011
17 posts
I always say the truth is best even when we find it unpleasant. Any rat in a...
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The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
I stumbled onto the Newbery Honor wikipedia page. I entirely forgot that from 5th to 7th grade I attempted to read all of them. I actually was fairly successful, Wikipedia informs me that I’ve read the majority from 1970 on.
This and The Westing...
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Sometimes I pretend I’ve been captured by witches and they’re using...
It is saying these things that keeps us from falling apart. And maybe by...
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I always overreact whenever I discover anyone at Emerson who likes John Green. A nonfiction essay we workshopped today in class contained a section about meeting him and Looking for Alaska, so of course I covered the page in scribbles about Tour de Nerdfighting 2009 and The Fault in Our Stars and...
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You cannot survive without hope
– Things that are majorly useful for putting things in perspective: Holocaust survivor lectures.
Does Blaine just not have parents?
Is he like Harry Potter or something?
The truth is, everybody changes every day. And some things are more devastating...
– Olivia Benson, SVU (via strokefest)
bossypants1:
Alex Cabot is B A C K!!!
Clip from Russian Brides
That beautiful moment when I OWN AN IDENTICAL COAT TO ALEX CABOT.
Except I’m like half her height so it doesn’t look nearly as good on me. BUT BEST EVER.
Knowing is better than wondering. Waking is better than sleeping. And even the...
– Meredith Grey; Grey’s Anatomy, “If Tomorrow Never Comes” (1.6)
October 2011
22 posts