February 2012
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“Sadly the propaganda campaign launched in the 1960s has taken root. The radical...”
– Republican presidential candidate RICK SANTORUM, writing in his 2005 book It Takes A Family, essentially saying that women have no role in the workplace.
They’re just good for heterosexual sex, making babies and cleaning up the house, right, Rick?
Amazingly, about half of half of the country is...
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“This is far from over.
Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts and a...”
– STEPHEN HENDERSON, “Michigan Victory Can’t Mask Romney’s Troubles,” in the Detroit Free Press (via inothernews)
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Whispery.
“It is a miracle if you can find true friends, and it is a miracle if you have...”
– Lemony Snicket (via venebelle)
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Today in news everyone figured out in 2005
Have you guys tried this “yoga” thing? It’s very relaxing!
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“When you took your oath of office, you placed your hand on the Bible and swore...”
– Jamie Raskin - who is now a senator in Maryland and served as floor manager of the recently passed bill allowing same sex marriage. (via abaldwin360)
BOOM.
(via tehblackbirdisincognito)
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It's SUMMER APP TIME
and I have learned while writing my abstract that I will probably just go ahead and pass out if I have to type “Carpatho-Russian” one more time.
MY PEOPLE, WHY IS THE NAME OF YOUR ETHNIC GROUP SO UNWIELDY
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afternoonsnoozebutton:
adamusprime:
i love the way some of the things on tumblr are named
like at some point the engineers came to karp and were like “hey, we need a name for the place where we put all the themes, can we just call it the theme page or something”
and karp was like
Oh god
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WHAT LOT’S WIFE WOULD HAVE SAID (IF SHE WASN’T A...
prophetoracrackpot:
Do you remember when we met
in Gomorrah? When you were still beardless,
and I would oil my hair in the lamp light before seeing
you, when we were young, and blushed with youth
like bruised fruit. Did we care then
what our neighbors did
in the dark?
When our first daughter was born
on the River Jordan, when our second
cracked her pink head from my body
like a...
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14kgoldnyc replied to your post: 14kgoldnyc replied to your post:…
Mmm, minestrone… Anytime you need a kashrut reminder, I’ll happily fill you in ;)
Consider yourself on kashrut speed-dial.
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Giving up without giving in
So this year, Lent and National Eating Disorder Awareness Week start at pretty much the same time.
This is decidedly weird for me. As is apparent to anyone who reads this Tumblr for more than five nanoseconds, if they manage to wade through the gifset reblogs and posts about my feelings, I have what you might (kindly) term some issues. Luckily for me, an eating disorder is no longer chief in the...
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14kgoldnyc replied to your post: prophetoracrackpot replied to your post: Sometimes…
The fish-not-counting is a remnant of Kashrut—Jewish law considers fish parve, like vegetables and grains and eggs. It’s weird, but true :)
This sounds familiar. Mike taught me the (very, very) basics of kosher law a while back, and we talked about the subjective meat value of fish. Makes sense, though,...
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prophetoracrackpot replied to your post: Sometimes I plan poorly and all of a sudden it’s…
Wait, so no meat or DAIRY? At all?
Oh, whoops! I should clarify. Clean Monday is no meat/no dairy, and Lent in its entirety is no meat (though fish doesn’t count for some reason…thanks for throwing us a bone there). There isn’t another strict fast day until the week before Pascha,...
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Sometimes I plan poorly and all of a sudden it’s Clean Monday and the first day of Lent and therefore strict fast, and seemingly all of my food has dairy and/or meat in it, so I’m reduced to trudging to CVS on my lunch hour so I can buy a can of lentil soup. And sometimes I pair this with a bowl of Honey Nut Cheerios and pretend that real adults eat like this.
Then I post about it on...
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someauthorgirl replied to your post: Let the record show that someauthorgirl is totally correct and “Maps” is DOING THINGS TO ME.
THEY DON’T LOVE YOU LIKE I LOVE YOU
MY KIND’S YOUR KIND
ALSO THIS SENTIMENT IS OFFICIALLY RECIPROCATED
fannylemon replied to your post: Let the record show that someauthorgirl is totally correct and “Maps” is DOING THINGS TO ME.
MAPS...
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Let the record show that someauthorgirl is totally...
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someauthorgirl replied to your post: Until this very evening, I’d never listened to the…
the song Maps is perfect.
That’s the song after the song after this one! SO EXCITED. WILL REPORT BACK.
respectissexy replied to your post: Until this very evening, I’d never listened to the…
Yeah Yeah Yeahs are awesome! Your high school boyfriend sounds lame
We’re friendly now, but...
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Until this very evening, I’d never listened to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs because my high school boyfriend hated them enough to sufficiently put me off for years. He didn’t like the Beatles or the Arcade Fire, though, so his judgment is highly questionable at best.
Anyway, 2003 called and wants you to know that Fever To Tell is good.
“A blank sheet of paper is God’s way of saying it’s not so easy to be God.”
– Absent Things as if They Are Present (via nevver)
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lizlemming replied to your post: Today.
Punk-ass brains better shut up if they know what’s good for them. :)
Punk-ass brains, you are ON NOTICE.
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Bluebird
there’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I’m too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I’m not going to let anybody see you. there’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I pour whiskey on him and inhale cigarette smoke and the whores and the bartenders and the grocery clerks never know that he’s in there. there’s a bluebird in my heart...
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Today.
So I think the chancellor and I might be BFFs now. (Not really, but he’d read up on my bio, and he remembered the name of my hometown when we were talking. We had to hang out backstage before the program started and got shushed because we and the backstage crew were bantering too loudly.)
All told, there were some eight hours of speeches and musical interludes and coffee breaks and free...
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Tumblr, what have you done to me?
stfupenguins:
andothercuriosities:
“And what about the late Mister Pamuk?” she asked. “Won’t he resurrect himself every time we argue?”
“No,” he answered, shaking his head.
“You mean you’ve forgiven me?”
“No, I haven’t forgiven you,” he replied.
Then Mary cried and ran out into the street without looking where she was going. “Wait!” Matthew called out. But it was too late and Edith had...
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It seems ironic that the thought of going to the...
Individual programs that therefore require individual instruction kind of give me the heebie-jeebies.
This is why I was incapable of ordering food at Subway until I was, I don’t know, 14 or so. SO MANY CHOICES I DON’T KNOW WHY DON’T YOU JUST PICK SOMETHING FOR ME.
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Intro submitted at 11.
I’m a boss.
I’ve actually been drafting it mentally for the last week or so, because for some reason drafting formal introductions helps me with my inability to sleep properly. You can go ahead and imagine that if you want. I’ve also been known to review French grammar and outline papers when stricken with insomnia.
And I refuse to be nervous about the actual introduction...
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Draft of intro is due at noon.
I learned this at 10.
YONK.
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On Saturday morning, I have the incredible honor of introducing the chancellor of my university at a campus-wide event celebrating the anniversary of the honors college’s founding. However, due to the fact that I’ve written three papers in two languages over the last few days and have not had the free time to so much sleep properly, I have no actual introduction yet. Just notes. This...
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Thoughts I have had while writing this paper
bajo-el-mar:
mysinmysoul:
“I am so cold.”
“I am so alone.”
“I am so cold and alone.”
“This blanket is so beautiful. I love this blanket. I will wear it everywhere and cocoon myself in its soothing warmth.”
“I should drink more caffeine.”
“NO NO NO TOO MUCH CAFFEINE ANXIETY REACHING CRITICAL LEVEL GOING TO DIE”
“Huh, not dead.”
“What if I burst into flames instead of finishing this?”
...
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Thoughts I have had while writing this paper
“I am so cold.”
“I am so alone.”
“I am so cold and alone.”
“This blanket is so beautiful. I love this blanket. I will wear it everywhere and cocoon myself in its soothing warmth.”
“I should drink more caffeine.”
“NO NO NO TOO MUCH CAFFEINE ANXIETY REACHING CRITICAL LEVEL GOING TO DIE”
“Huh, not dead.”
...
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Let the record show that I am highly caffeinated...
This evening is devolving into a series of Freudian slips in two different languages.
Also if I’m not in bed before Karen wakes up at 5:30 for her co-op, I will feel slightly embarrassed. I am known in this apartment is The Roommate Who Never Sleeps. It’s like being New York, but less sexy.
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kitteh-neon:
Sometimes, when I see fellow White people acting up, I just get this voice in my head that goes “Great, now I gotta be responsible for these White people” like Kanye West and the water bottle tweet.
I don’t know, it just comes to me and I laugh to myself.
This is why I love you so much, boo.
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