January 2012
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so after looking through my tags
I have decided my number one resolution for the next year will be:
do more, bullshit less.
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END OF YEAR MEME, WHAT FUN
HOW TO: open a new text post and type letters a-z into the tags and take your favorite tag it suggests and post it out of context. this only works if you use tags as obsessive conversational add-ons like me, and if your computer saves the tags you’ve used before.
WHAT YOU COME UP WITH SHOULD BE SOME SORT OF REFLECTION OF YOUR CHARACTER. ENJOY.
A- and actually...
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it is new year’s eve and i am attempting to explain what crime syndicates are to my mother.
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Strychnine poisoning:
Opisthotonus - the arching of the body caused by hyperextension
Risus sardonicus - the “sardonic grin” (caused by facial spasms)
Oenanthe - the plant that causes risus sardonicus; used in the ritual killing of the elderly in Phoenician Sardinia
… so apparently that is the etymology of “sardonic.”
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Trismus - the inability to open the...
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I am one page into Naked Lunch and I am already grinning.
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“What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly...”
– Sylvia Plath (via chaoticallyalive)
December 2011
Lower classes quicker to show compassion in the... →
the UC Berkeley study found that individuals in the upper middle and upper classes were less able to detect and respond to the distress signals of others. Overall, the results indicate that socio-economic status correlates with the level of empathy and compassion that people show in the face of emotionally charged situations.
I’m in that mood when I want to make resolutions that I probably won’t keep.
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“It was easy to read the message in his entrails. Man was matter, that was...”
– Catch-22, Joseph Heller
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oh man, that scene near the end when Yossarian walks through the city.
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I’LL KEEP YOU MY DIRTY LITTLE SECRET.
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smallcutsensations:
I want to travel. Feel the roughness and the beauty of a city I do not know, breathe it all in and out. All the smog and the dust and the fog that is going to stick to the insides of my lungs, leaving a distinct fingerprint of the places I have been to. Taste and smell and take everything in that I cannot bear on first sight without this strange pain in my chest. The touch of...
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things that make me laugh:
being trolled by the fucking square blanket and spinning it around 203948204982 times looking for the longer side until we realized there isn’t one.
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“The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in...”
– Václav Havel
Czech playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and politician. Former President of Czechoslovakia and the first President of the Czech Republic, (1936-2011)
(via amiquote)
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I have this fixation where my iphone battery life can’t be less than 87% because then it would be a B (B+ is okay, minimum effort, maximum profit as long as you get your shit together at the very end).
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this song.
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well, that was cathartic.
Every time I finish writing and then go back over old outlines and old frustrations, I have to marvel at how I managed to finish at all. And then, of course, the process repeats itself, although most times I don’t even get to this stage.
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I should really keep to deadlines. That way, even if I go over by a whole fucking week like I did this time, at least I’m still obligated...
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