February 2012
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ain't safe for work, nope.
beatonna:
Last night I was emailed some porn that someone drew of me because I said a thing on the internet that they disagreed with. Because, there you go, ‘justice.’ When stuff like that comes your way you don’t usually say anything because who gives a fuck, but oh well, let’s do it anyway. So, I’ve seen that shit before because I’ve been on the internet for 100 years, but it always looks...
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Women’s College Problems #440
womenscollegeproblems:
When your professors put “no knitting/crocheting in class” in their syllabus
So, so true. I do wish I’d learned to knit more than a shapeless blob in college; it would have made Astronomy 100 (taken for my non-lab-science requirement in the second semester of my senior year) a lot more fun.
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I shall forget you presently, my dear, So make the most of this, your little day, Your little month, your little half a year, Ere I forget, or die, or move away, And we are done forever; by and by I shall forget you, as I said, but now, If you entreat me with your loveliest lie I will protest you with my favorite vow. I would indeed that love were longer-lived, And oaths were not so brittle as...
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“I thought I loved the man, but I fear I mistook the object—‘twas my...”
– Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768)
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overheard outside the coffee shop
“It’s straight-up five o’clock.”
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And if I hadn’t read Hegel, or La Princesse de Clèves, or Lévi-Strauss on Les Chats, or l’Anti-Oedipe?—The book which I haven’t read and which is frequently told to me even before I have time to read it (which is perhaps the reason I don’t read it): this book exists to the same degree as the other: it has its intelligibility, its memorability, its mode of action. Have...
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Find where your last name is most common →
Top countries: Ireland, United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia, Canada. Top cities: Liverpool, Birmingham, Manchester, Nottingham, Bristol.
My surname is fairly rare, so I’m surprised to find that I have more potential relatives in New Zealand than in the US. I know my ancestors of that name were English, not Irish, and now I wonder if they came to Virginia from the north of England! Cool.
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theforestofarden asked: This might be a stupidly general question...but if you have one piece of advice for a potential somewhat-in-the-near-future graduate student...what would that advice be? :)
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“At my life, at the way it is — what I really want is to — to have nothing. An...”
– A.S. Byatt, Possession (267)
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“I could never content my contemplation with those generall pieces of wonders,...”
– Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici (1643)
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