February 2011
dear cheap YMCA camp i went to for three years...
thank you for preparing me for the ordeal of TAKING A MOTHERFUCKING SHOWER WITH NO HOT WATER. both in your frigid lake (“lake” - glorified pond) and in your shitty, shitty showers, this is a thing i was never and hope never to become accustomed to, but at the very least if the memories did not make tonight’s “adventure” any less torturous, i was armed with the...
it is really weird not thinking of myself as a...
and scarier than i ever would have expected. i never bought all that stuff about how people are afraid of success or whatever, i always figured no i would totally love to be a successful person i just can’t. and i mean - well i was going to say “not that i’m a successful person” but i mean i have a lot of friends i love and i’m paying my rent and i’m on my way...
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WHATEVER: this is me bragging about sometimes...
one of my team members the other day when i asked what i do that works for him said “your organization is amazing.” i can promise you this is the first time in my life anyone has ever said that to me. and what’s wild is it’s true. our calendar utilizes 8 different dry erase markers to keep it color coded so i can make sure everyone is on top of their shit, and everyone IS...
my job is weird but i think ultimately awesome,...
it’s weird leading a group of people who are my age, several whom are just as if not more qualified than i am, on paper, at any rate. i mean like most of them have B.A.s, for starters, which makes them way more qualified by the standards of most places, and bless NYNP for looking past that in my case - it’s a thing i appreciate about them, yes. but here they are, looking to me for...
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yo waking up early is fucking awesome
so i have never been what some might call an “early riser” which is a nice way of saying most of my life i would stay in bed till the last possible moment, sometimes later, and also on weekends i would sleep till like three in the afternoon, habitually.
but so recently i decided to enact some life choices that would require me to wake up early, namely eating like a decent breakfast...
January 2011
note to self: recommendations are not a thing that...
they are, if you are me at least, more of a thing that can “TAKE FUCKING FOREVER HOLY SHIT I WANT TO GO HOME.”
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it is a positive exercise to aim for things you...
it is a positive exercise to aim for things you know you might not get.
it is a positive exercise to aim for things you know you might not get.
it is a positive exercise to aim for things you know you might not get.
it is a positive exercise to aim for things you know you might not get.
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sunday afternoon office partyyyy
a revealing fact about the organization i work for: it’s 3 p.m. on a sunday, i just got to the office (second-years have keys, because we are fancy, also so we can complete our ludicrous amounts of work on our own time, should we wish - our choice: midnight on a thursday or three on a sunday!), i am so not close to the only person here! this is a weird mix to me of depressing and inspiring....
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written february 2008
I. White-sky mornings waiting for the train trees pressing cracks into the sky the gradation of shadows into the actual colors of objects - these things I notice more this winter. The coastline perimeters of nature, the angles of aboveground subway stations where I name discrete shapes, wondering how they will begin to reconnect to each other now that language has left me. Language and with it -...
The Trouble with Bright Girls (Psychology Today) →
psychotherapy:
Successful women know only too well that in any male-dominated profession, we often find ourselves at a distinct disadvantage. We are routinely underestimated, underutilized, and even underpaid. Studies show that women need to perform at extraordinarily high levels, just to appear moderately competent compared to our male coworkers.
But in my experience, smart and talented...
100 Young Adult Books for the Feminist Reader →
thisbodysfabric:
absentofgrace:
Found this link over at Bitch and thought I would share it. I don’t read much YA anymore because I think I’m technically a little old for it but I might say screw it and look into these reads anyhow :)
More books!
NO ONE IS EVER TOO OLD FOR YA.
also i legitimately only clicked this (PDF file, by the way) to see if e. lockhart’s the disreputable...
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a curiously arduous week for such an easy one
basically a two-day week: monday, tuesday - real work; wednesday staff & second-year retreat, thursday snow/naps, friday training - yet i leave it feeling weirdly drained. implosion number six thousand happened on tuesday, and i think i handled it as best i could, and better than i’ve handled all the other ones, and it’s not a big thing and i’m not worried about it, i’m...
NYTimes: Nabokov Theory on Polyommatus Blue... →
well this is kind of wonderful.
an incomplete list of skills i wish i had...
leaving new people with a positive impression of you as a result of your effortless small talk.
putting together outfits both professional and attractive.
decorating rooms with style and personality.
working a stove fearlessly even after multiple burns over a lifetime of cooking.
keeping track of the precise best way to wash each garment.
cutting avocados gracefully.
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one would certainly be excused for thinking it did
me: meanwhile, in magazine: "His belief in the disruptive powers of his own excrement (he has defecated on himself during at least two adventures to rattle a client) recalls the darkly confrontational spirit of ’70s and ’80s performance art."
isabel: please tell me this has nothing to do with james franco
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theoretically, if i'm wearing my giant-ass green...
then no one at the grocery store would be able to tell that underneath i was in fluffy blue pajamas right?
it turns out i like boiled zucchini in pasta
and now you know.
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“Lavigne described the album as being about “life”. She stated,...”
– the wikipedia article for the upcoming avril lavigne album is like the funniest thing i’ve read all month.
“I think it’s about time we think about what we mean by “racism” if a black...”
– Mother Jailed For Sending Her Children to the “Wrong” School — The Curvature (via notemily)
If the “we” in this passage refers to “white mainstream society” (longtime readers may know I have a standing beef with vague usage of first person plural), then I unconditionally agree: you don’t understand...
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Ashton Kutcher...forget abstinence sex ed, let's... →
greaterthanlapsed:
sevenofcups:
mymilkspilt:
holidaysmakelifefun:
“For women in the sex education process in schools, the one thing they teach about is how to get pregnant or how to not get pregnant, but they don’t really talk about sex as a point of pleasure for women. The male orgasm is actually right there and readily available to learn about because it’s actually part of the...
I would like to go to Adult School to learn how to... →
pastimperfection:
porygon2:
calecake:
taniada:
mssswitch:
lastsinglestanding:
nanner:
neonloneliness:
alexandrahamilton:
-bobella-:
Classes I would take:
Groceries 101
The US Postal Service: What the Fuck Is This Shit
Sleeping at Night and Not Like a Vampire
Getting Your Shit Together 251
Genius. Could we also add “Ironing: Why it’s the Worst” and “Employment 101”?
...
Gap Between Rich And Poor Named 8th Wonder Of The... →
novazembla:
dyfl:
I… I can’t. Shot. Shot dead. Shot.
“While numerous individuals have tried to cross the Gap Between Rich and Poor, evidence suggests that only a small fraction have ever succeeded and many have died in the attempt.”
for the record this might be the best thing the onion has ever published. and i really love the onion.
“According to anthropologists, untold millions...
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JUST WOKE UP
IN MY FLUFFIEST PAJAMAS.
IT’S JUST PAST NOON (which is perfect, late enough to feel super luxurious but i still have some day ahead of me).
I DON’T EVEN HAVE ANY EMAILS ON MY BLACKBERRY, WHICH I TURNED OFF WHILE SLEEPING.
I TAKE BACK EVERY BAD THING I EVER SAID ABOUT SNOW.
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“I think it’s about time we think about what we mean by “racism” if a black...”
– Mother Jailed For Sending Her Children to the “Wrong” School — The Curvature (via notemily)
If the “we” in this passage refers to “white mainstream society” (longtime readers may know I have a standing beef with vague usage of first person plural), then I unconditionally agree: you don’t understand...
Watchjonathanbogart:
PAGING ISABEL.
(via the increasingly mandatory Popdust, of course)
OH MY GOD YOU GUYS THE WORLD LOVES ME AND DECIDED TO SHOW ME BY GIVING ME A VIDEO MADE SPECIALLY FOR ME.
also, i would just like to say that nick emailed this to me all “you have to see this,” and then i clicked it and was overwhelmed with how someone out there had crafted something obviously...
I'm sorry, but how the fuck can that woman be...
ieatstickersallthetimedude-:
Kelley Williams-Bollar sent her children to a school district where they didn’t live and now she has a criminal record.
I’ve read so many articles by republican pundits saying that she deserved this because “tax payers would have to pay for her children’s education”, and I’m fucking sick of it.
The moral justification behind capitalism is that the best of the best...
tsarevich:
public school bitch.: I’m suspicious of people who don’t like to read
cataloguesofconcubines:
cafeballads:
tsarevich:
floradoragirl:
Let’s just replace “suspicious of” with “disgusted with”. Basically, you don’t like reading, gtfo out of my life please. I like intelligent people.
there are plenty of intelligent people who don’t like reading though, including but not…
...
“It must be a holiday, there’s nobody around
She studies me closely as I sit...”
– i don’t know, i just feel like i needed to share with the internet the moment i learned that bob dylan has an erica jong reference, which i can’t find an adjective for though “hilarious” is making a compelling argument for itself.
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things to do
but no wherewithal to do them? a combination of actually not wanting to do any of them (minorly unpleasant activities that they are), and also not being able to pick which one to do first, meaning i’ve been trying to pick one to do first for an hour and a half, and also not being able to decide if it’s worth heading into manhattan today - i was thinking i was going to stop by the...
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i do not understand dudes on the dance floor who...
like, you want to dance? awesome! that’s like why i’m here. that, and the drinking. and i enjoy it, the dancing with dudes, even though i always feel sort of bad for encouraging them? like, yes, i, a strange girl, will be fine with your hands in certain (but not all) places, but i don’t want to promote the idea that it’s okay to manhandle all ladies, even though some of us...
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“Weed!”
– fourth grader’s response to “what’s in cigarettes?” during a group read-through of a passage on slavery. my team member handled it I think as well as you could - by covering a laugh, saying, “no, they weren’t growing weed,” and prompting...
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i bought vegetables today???
also i learned i can’t tell the difference between a zucchini and a cucumber, OOPS, and i was too afraid to say to the teller “uh oops actually i meant the other green thing i’m not especially fond of but attempting to work into my eating for health benefits” so i wound up just taking a zucchini home, which is a bummer because apparently you have to cook zucchini, and like...
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“The only change came from America, as we increased our troop commitments in...”
– oh, fine - my favorite MLK speech (as of right now anyway) is beyond vietnam: a time to break silence.
“When I speak of love, I am not speaking of some sentimental and weak response, I...”
– SPECIAL: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in His Own Words
i still to day believe this.
(via radicallyhottoff)
i do too.
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