avril 2012
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“Le mieux est l’ennemi du bien.”
This quote from Voltaire perfectly sums up my life lately (or always?). Too often I put something off because I can’t finish it 100% or do the best that I think I can… I’ve never fully considered how perfectionism feeds into my procrastination, but this quote really gets at the heart of the problem… Can’t have a perfectly clean room? Why bother cleaning at all? (this...
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“Like I’m a supersized french fry
Drenched in ketchup, fryin’ over...”
– Little Jackie, “28 Butts” on The Stoop
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“One nibble and you’re nobbled!”
– the slogan for HobNobs (the biscuits that changed my life last night.)
thatkindofwoman:
I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie,...
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confession: i really do give a fuck about the...
it makes a difference.
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grosso modo
is a phrase i haven’t thought about in a while… shit. i need to regain my french competency again…
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Lamourette's Kiss
frenchhistory:
ingridrichter:
A sudden but short-lived reconciliation: a term derisively given to the reconciliation brought about by the Abbe Lamourette on the 7th of July, 1792, between the factions of the Legislative Assembly… The term is now generally used for a reconciliation of policy without abatement of rancor.
Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William S. Walsh, 1892.
It’s...
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YOUR BAND IS UNIRONIC TECHNO
yourbandsnameis:
You sound like the soundtrack to weird German porn, which is a redundancy to say it’s weird.
perfect. i’m looking at you, next door neighbor with the 1 am concerts. shut it down.
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just got accepted to teach in bordeaux!
the oui is coming back to ouisconnie, sans doute.
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Wait So Long— Trampled by Turtles
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habitat unfucked. now: celebratory bacon!
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sunday funday agenda:
-watch morning political shows. (check)
-unfuck my habitat. (in progress)
-watch some hockey. (in progress)
-call mom for recipe for spinach bacon salad.
-go to grocery store to buy bacon.
-make spinach bacon salad.
-eat spinach bacon salad.
-write.
-game of thrones, mad men, veep, girls.
-write.
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Listen | StoryCorps →
god. StoryCorps makes me wanna cry like 80% of the time… love it.
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POSITIVE FEEDBACK ON MY PAPER! HOLLA!!!!
so this is why people finish stuff early… it feels awesome! super motivated to keep working! will be public radio and historical preservation MACHINE for the next three days!
Hey honey, how'd you sleep? I adopted 32 cats and...
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Why can't they be friends?
cobblerofmessina:
bunny33:
Anyone else listen to Smash Mouth’s Why Can’t We Be Friends and wish Robespierre and Danton and Marat and St. Just and just everybody had applied it and then cry quietly to themselves in their pillow? No? Just me. Okay. Forget I said anything.
THIS^ *and Desmoulins
^SO MUCH THIS!!!!!^
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“Be a scribe!
Your body will be sleek, your hand will be soft…your...”
– Ptah-hotep, ancient Egyptian sage
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that one time when your roommate came home from...
You’re So Vain— Carly Simon
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