December 2011
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In 2012, I want an adventure.
I want an adventure with my body. I want to drink more water, learn how to love a gym. I want to get my scuba certification and spend some time in the ocean, climb a mountain, hike trails and spend some weekends camping. I want to feel like I am freezing when I first see snow. I want to know what cold feels like. I want to sleep more, keep normal hours, and see what my body feels like when I treat...
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I thought long and hard about my new years... →
It’s not soda, or calories, or shoe shopping, although having less of these things would probably be a good idea.
In 2010 I’ve decided what I need to do most of all is get rid of the toxic things in my life—people, situations, things that aren’t worth it anymore or weren’t worth it to begin with. For my own sake. To move forward. To not be tied down by poor choices made previously or by...
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“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known...”
– Elisabeth Kubler-Ross (via emotional-algebra)
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“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.
Because if you are making...”
– http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2011/12/my-new-year-wish.html (via neil-gaiman)
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Sympathy For The Martyr - Straylight...
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“Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do...”
– Mignon McLaughlin (via emotional-algebra)
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“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t...”
– Louise Erdrich (via emotional-algebra)
“I often used to dream about you — vivid dreams with clear-cut stories. In these...”
– Haruki Murakami, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (via align)
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“I know what’s coming. I know no one beats these odds. It’s a matter of getting...”
– Christopher Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011)
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Proactiv, the company, really is pissed me off.
Mid-November - I ordered a starter kit, but the system e-mailed me saying the order didn’t go through. So, I re-ordered it. I got another e-mail saying the same thing! Then my bank account showed TWO charges, turns out they both went through just fine despite the e-mail notices I received. I tried to cancel with the chat person who was exceptionally annoying and unhelpful, and she said she...
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Today is the GRE.
I’m definitely not prepared. Plus I slept odd hours last night and woke up at 4a, so I’m slightly wanting a nap since winter break has been full of napping.
I feel all gross. I’m not sure if I just feel sick, am too nervous, too tired, or my breakfast isn’t agreeing with me.
I just want a basic, decent score in the mid-150s. -crossing fingers- The FSU MLIS program...
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“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It...”
– Rumi (via latikaaaa)
“I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.”
– Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America (via mer-et-soleil)
It isn't one thing, it is everything.
There is so much uncertainty and it is making me freak out. It is knowing there is very little point to even try anymore since I’ll be leaving. It is also that life won’t be as big as I always planned it to be. It is not knowing where I’ll be come summer, by fall, by next year, or if anything will work out. I get this is normal. I’m not this special case and most people...
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“Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you...”
– E.L. Konigsburg (via emotional-algebra)
I really hate panic attacks.
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“My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not...”
– Alice Hoffman (via emotional-algebra)
I want an adventure.
I want to run away and live in Alaska, even though I’ve never been around snow. I want a big cabin with a bunch of little kids and a bearded husband. I want to learn how to beekeep, have the time and a proper kitchen to make marmalade, and own peacocks. I want to be the type of person that climbs mountains, but I’ve never really seen a mountain.
I’ve been looking up teaching...
“I think that the kind of pleasure I would consider as the real pleasure would be...”
– Michel Foucault, from a 1983 interview collected in Politics, Philosophy, Culture (via suzywire)
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“But who can say what’s best? That’s why you need to grab whatever chance you...”
– Haruki Murakami (Norweigan Wood)
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“All my life, I thought of love as some kind of voluntary enslavement. Well,...”
– Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
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“If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there’s...”
– 1Q84 (Haruki Murakami)
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“And she finds it difficult to believe — that a person would love her even when...”
– Margaret Atwood (via emotional-algebra)
I’m listening to my parents and grandmother discuss my little sister’s pregnancy. I wonder if they would have been the same supportive if it had been me.
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“You strengthen people by sending them your loving thoughts. People are doing the...”
– Orin (via spycnsweet)
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“We’re on I-95, and she unhooks the pole, and she’s holding the morphine bag over...”
– The Lives They Lived - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com
Go read this, it’s wonderful.
(via felixsalmon)
“Inexperience is a quality of the human condition. We are born one time only; we...”
– Milan Kundera (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
Texting
Q: Would anything happen between us if I did end up moving back to the Bradenton-Sarasota area?
A: I’d like to see if it would :)
I probably shouldn’t even be considering this, should I?
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“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and...”
– Aldous Huxley (via misswallflower)
“I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone...”
– Oscar Wilde (via shmegeh)
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“I’m of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who...”
– Barbara Kingsolver, novelist (via ramblingsofalibrarydenizen)