May 2013
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If I were paid like, a buck minimum every time someone, upon hearing that I am a history major, asks me if I’m gonna be a history teacher, I would have no problemo paying for graduate school.
And it’s not a rap against those people or history teachers, but rather a rap against history majors, because apparently we aren’t creative enough with our careers to imagine something...
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“I take most of the drive by night.
It’s cool and in the dark my lapsed...”
– “Iowa City to Boulder,” by William Matthews
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I survived today. If I can survive tomorrow, I will be the champ of all champs.
Mother’s Day weekend, my aching feet hate you.
Just applied to graduate in one year.
Whaaaat.
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The end of another school year means I get to thinking sappy thoughts.
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Tonight’s latest thought: I seriously did not expect myself to make it this far. I didn’t think I could take college. Everything is weird, and definitely not what I thought it would be like. When I started college as a sad, wide-eyed, homesick freshman, I could never have imagined myself as a 21 year old...
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It never fails. I’ve seen three “last night before going home for the summer” nights, and every single time it looks and feels the same - I feel so alone, yet happy and energetic because I won’t be alone this time tomorrow night.
It’s a weird feeling. Mild shock that I’ve already made it through three years of college, so much excitement and relief...
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What am I doing with my new-found freedom? Cooing at this adorably gorgeous guy in a Mary Tyler Moore episode. And cooing is most definitely the right word for what I’m doing right now. Geez, he’s cute.
I am too much like my mother.
I no sooner earn my freedom from classes, and what do I do? I go perch on the veranda and watch in slack-jawed awe as a flock of free-wheeling swallows swoop through the air above Collins.
I’m ready to go home.
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“If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be...”
– Charles Bukowski (via paradoxicalsentiments)
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thatniftykid replied to your post: That moment when you’re enthusiastically singing…
He/she has no discretion in their coughs.
None whatsoever. I hate having a second party privy to my vocal talents.
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That moment when you’re enthusiastically singing the theme song to The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and then someone makes an obscene cough outside your open window.
Yup.
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Avoiding homework and reading 1970s LIFE magazine articles on M*A*S*H. Glorious.
“The string of jokes flows right along with the flow of blood in the surgery, until finally they intermingle in such a way that one is in the curious position of simultaneously laughing hysterically and trying to avert one’s eyes. Moreover, you should go to see M*A*S*H forewarned that its humor is not,...
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theradnessqueen replied to your post: When I was a kid, my hair was consistently in some…
happy 80th birthday then :P
Thank you. I handle my age quite well, if I do say so myself!
April 2013
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When I was a kid, my hair was consistently in some type of a braid. And that is why my cousins decided to nickname me after Willie Nelson. Especially when I would wear one of their cowgirl hats. I’ve been scarred for life with a nickname like that.
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Watchlessonsforchildren:
My Doctor Who Mixtape: A guide for vintage Who newbs.
To watch:
1. William Hartnell.
Recommended: ‘An Unearthly Child, The Dalek Invasion of Earth’.
2. Patrick Troughton.
Recommended: ‘The Invasion, The War Games’.
3. John Pertwee.
Recommended: ‘Spearhead from Space, The Sea Devils , Planet of the Spiders’.
4. Tom Baker.
Recommended: ‘Genesis of the Daleks, The Talons of Weng...
nunnabe:
lulz-time:
printers are awful
it’s 2013 so
why do they still make so much noise
why are they so pushy and impatient
why is it that printer ink costs more than printers themselves
why can’t they just wait for two seconds until you load more paper before going into some sort of mid-life crisis during which they try to re-evaluate their entire lives before collapsing
That fourth...
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I have a feeling that this is going to be one of my poorer essays.
In a nut shell, the prompt says “The world sucks. What do you think about that?” and I get to say “The world certainly does suck. And that’s what I think.”
THRILLING.
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I gotta admit, about 1/4 of me watches The Mary Tyler Moore Show for the fashion styles, 1/4 so I can laugh at Rhoda’s jokes, and 1/2 so I can coo over the adorable men that flourish in these episodes.
I’ve been jilted, being 21 in 2013.
Shoulda been 21 in 1971 and perfectly happy.
Sigh.
Drunk on goofy happiness. Basically my life.
