December 2010
52 posts
“The years do not wait for us.”
– Chinese Proverb
Dec 31st
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The Female Factor →
Female or not, this is relevant. Now enough with the serious stuff, this is pretty cool and interesting:  Pop Culture Creates New Heroines “In films, books, music and television and on the social media networks, we have rethought gender roles, and the old virgin versus slut metaphor rings false, if it ever was true.”
Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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I spent so much money on grad school applications today it physically hurts.
Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
2010: The Year in Pictures →
Dec 29th
“To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: a...”
– Ecclesiastes, 3:1-8 The lines were set to music by Pete Seeger and recorded by the Byrds in 1966.
Dec 28th
Dec 28th
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Dec 25th
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Dec 24th
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ListenEartha Kitt ~ C’est Si Bon
Dec 24th
Dec 24th
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Cleaning out the closet, drawers, and boxes. Quite...
Dec 22nd
“Receive what cheer you may; The night is long that never finds the day.”
– Shakespeare in Macbeth
Dec 21st
Dec 21st
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Dec 17th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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“Often, the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth”
– Mark Twain
Dec 15th
“I’ll whisper to you all of the places my lips are going to kiss.”
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
“Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important...”
– Laurette Taylor
Dec 15th
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Done with the GRE!!!
Dec 14th
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“Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. ‘Pooh!’ he whispered. ‘Yes, Piglet?’...”
– A.A. Milne. (via bees-knees)
Dec 14th
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My Toefl scores are in!
Now I just have to get through tomorrow so I can be normal again.
Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
“They make it look so easy—connecting with another human being. It’s like no one...”
– Dexter Morgan, Dexter 5x12 “Through a Glass, Darkly” (via laviebelem)
Dec 13th
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    “But the thoughtless wickedness with which we scatter     sentences of imprisonment is as nothing compared to the     stupid levity with which we tolerate poverty as if it were     either a wholesome tonic for lazy people or else a virtue to     be embraced as St. Francis embraced it. If a man is indolent,     let him be poor. If he is drunk, let him be poor. If he is     not a gentleman,...
Dec 12th
Dec 11th
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Dec 10th
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“Ask me what has been my most fortunate experience of the past two decades, and I’d say it was gaining the selfless love of my wife, Liu Xia. She cannot be present in the courtroom today, but I still want to tell you, sweetheart, that I’m confident that your love for me will be as always. Over the years, in my non-free life, our love has contained bitterness imposed by the external...
Dec 10th
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Yo, Fox! NOBODY PUTS FRINGE ON A CORNER!
Dec 10th
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You know you’re addicted to a tv show when…not only you call dibs on the tv, but you also put a post it on it to make sure nobody will dare to take your spot. I take Dibs’ Rules very seriously. 
Dec 10th
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Dec 9th
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Search, find, delete.
Sometimes the best things for you can be done in less than ten seconds.
Dec 9th
TEST YOUR INSIGHT! →
“Scientists have found indications that your ability to jump to intuitive answers — what they term the “Aha!” moment — may be affected by your mood. After watching a humorous video, brain imaging and test results of subjects suggested that a positive mood prepares the brain’s insight.” If not for the game, do it for the video!!!
Dec 9th
“The fact that ash from a modest volcanic outburst in Iceland grounded most of...”
– Slavoj Zizek ~ The End of Nature
Dec 9th
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Dec 9th
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"How much can you fit under your skin?"
Under My Skin ~ Jukebox The Ghost
Dec 8th
“Hold your own Know your name Go your own way”
– Jason Mraz ~ Details in Fabric
Dec 5th
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ListenDetail in Fabric ~ Jason Mraz This always makes...
Dec 5th
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“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”
– Philip K. Dick ~ “How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later” (1986)
Dec 4th
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That awkward moment when you realize you're...
Dec 3rd
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Dec 2nd
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Brazil Outpaces All Other Countries in Reducing... →
constantflux: Brazil announced today that it reduced tropical rainforest destruction to another record low level. The country’s National Institute for Space Research found that the loss of Amazonian forest reached a record low of 2,490 square miles (6,450 square kilometers) between August 2009 and July 2010, 67 percent lower than the average deforestation rate between 1996 and 2005. Below is...
Dec 2nd
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When it rains, it pours.
Story of my life.
Dec 2nd
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Dec 1st
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“I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together...”
– Margaret Mitchell, in Gone with the Wind (1936)
Dec 1st
I'm having a stare contest with my computer...
Whoever loses it has to write two essays by midnight tonight.
Dec 1st