September 2011
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I passed @mc_frontalot on Francis Ave. Wordnerd crush! Most exciting Fran Ave. almost-encounter to date (Sunday laundromat dates aside).
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Can we get more occasions to drink and watch...
Can we make that a priority?
“You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they...”
– Anais Nin (via creatingaquietmind)
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I thee wed. →
“When Jessica Valenti started planning her wedding, she was determined to avoid sexist traditions. But she hadn’t predicted the strength of reaction from family, fellow feminists and the blogger who termed her a ‘ball-cutting cybersuccubus’”
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I can be thrilled to be wed and still require time to come to terms with what my marriage might invite from others,...
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There will be sand.
Here’s what we usually look like: oddly unnatural in a really relaxing environ, perennially ill-prepped for the shutter flash.
Here I am perched like a flightless bird on some driftwood. Am I deucing? I’m not not deucing. Happy marriage husband! Let me pose sexily for you some more!
Mini-moons require half-smiles and an awkward photo request from strangers. But RUBY BEACH....
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RT @neiltyson: In 5-billion yrs the Sun will expand & engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth vaporizes. Have a nice day.
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Grace in small* things, #81011
*small to pretty damn big things
1. Today is my one-year anniversary of moving to town. I love it here, and I don’t feel like moving any time soon.
2. I am going to be an aunt again. Since every-damn-body around me seems to be knocked up, I’m glad that I get a new NIECE! out of all the ultrasound updates and belly photos. I’ll roll my eyes at most of it, but family? Family...
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An actually good sorting hat quiz →
glossylalia:
kitteh-neon:
thusspakekate:
It’s a fun interface AND it takes your decision into consideration
Reblogging for later use!
Always.
I got Hufflepuff. When I selected Ravenclaw, Hat was like “Bish, please.”
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“They think like assessors, not professors,” says Diane Johnson, who is in charge...”
– To Justify Every ‘A,’ Some Professors Hand Over Grading Power to Outsiders - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education (via infoneer-pulse)
Grading is my least favorite part. Until I’m able to teach seminar classes with a cap at 8 students who’ve all read the text and have...
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Vonnegut library offers banned book to Missouri... →
vintageanchor:
Up to 150 students at a Missouri high school that ordered “Slaughterhouse-Five” pulled from its library shelves can get a free copy of the novel, courtesy of the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library, library officials said on Thursday.
Related: mark your calendars for Sept. 24-Oct. 1, 2011.
Sometimes your big sister calls late at night and...
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Outside my place, I am angered at the mens of the...
scene: two people sitting on a couch on the corner across the street, a couch clearly left for trash or for whoever decides they do, in fact, want furniture that previously held a “FREE” sign AND me, sitting on my front stoop, reading
she and him: leave the couch, walk in different directions
him: ”Here, girl. *tongue clicks, three of ‘em, like you’re calling a...
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