May 2012
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My academic career
super-eklectic1:
2005:
Present:
yep…..i got senioritis
lol. me, too.
Except wait, 2005? I was just starting high school, hated my classes because they weren’t challenging enough, and overall dreaded going to school. I was Hermione earlier this year even, but now I am just slipping to a girl who is watching too much Community and will eventually become drunk Cinderalla
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April 2012
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When in Boystown: Don't Create Racism, Create... →
This is a really great article (written by a DePaul International Studies alum and a cool guy in real life) on Chicago’s Boystown neighborhood and the tumblr blog When in Boystown. It’s well written and really touches on the internal conflicts in the queer community with the “lesbophobia, misogyny, racism, ageism, slut shaming and transphobia” that hovers over the Boystown...
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Be Easy: Letting go of the past. →
rumiandshit:
Two monks were on a pilgrimage. One day, they came to a deep river. At the edge of the river, a young woman sat weeping because she was afraid to cross the river without help. She begged the two monks to help her. The younger monk turned his back. The members of their order were forbidden to touch a woman. But the older monk picked up the woman without a word and carried her across...
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Ruminating
About a week ago I was having a conversation with a guy who, just as we were parting, said “Insha’Allah” in response to something I said, and I said it back like it was lighter than air.
That memory reminds me of the last day I spent in Madrid last year. I was at the airport and, confused about what the overhead speaker said about boarding times, went up to a woman worker and...
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“ من لم يقنع باليسير لم يكتف بالكثير
Se você não se contenta com o pouco que...”
– (via recadosdatenda)
If you are not satisfied with what little you have, no amount of wealth will satisfy you.
- Arabic Proverb
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Obama slow jams the news
jkottke:
This might be the coolest thing a sitting President has ever done. Aside from, maybe, freeing the slaves or The New Deal or winning WWII.
Update: And an amazingly depressing excerpt from a speech Obama gave earlier in the day:
But we only finished paying off our student loans — check this out, all right, I’m the President of the United States — we only finished...
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“To describe, let alone explain, the paintings, engravings and sculpture of the...”
– Steven J. Mithen, “Ecological Interpreations of Palaeolithic Art,” 1991.
It’s times like this where reading anthropological scholarship is exciting and just downright cool.
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RIP Facts, 360 B.C.-A.D. 2012 →
jkottke:
Columnist Rex Huppke mourns the death of facts in contemporary American society.
To the shock of most sentient beings, Facts died Wednesday, April 18, after a long battle for relevancy with the 24-hour news cycle, blogs and the Internet. Though few expected Facts to pull out of its years-long downward spiral, the official cause of death was from injuries suffered last week when Florida...
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haha ok done with this song now
hagrid: hey I just met you
hagrid: and this is crazy
hagrid: but happy birthday
hagrid: you're a wizard harry
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I still don't get tumblr communication. I also...
me: hey i just followed you.
me: and this is crazy
me: but now that we're mutually following each other it's only fair to let you know that we're officially best friends and i will treat you as such with random messages with an exorbitant amount of cAPS and nonsense and i'll act as if we've actually known each other our whole lives and i'll reply to your stuff with weird gifs.
me: so inbox me maybe?
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“Ser feliz não significa que tudo é perfeito. Isso significa que você decidiu...”
– Peregrina da Paz (via recadosdatenda)
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“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It...”
– Rumi (via latikaaaa)
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