January 2009
41 posts
Graduate School in the Humanities: Just Don't Go. →
alexbaca:
“What almost no prospective graduate students can understand is the extent to which doctoral education in the humanities socializes idealistic, naïve, and psychologically vulnerable people into a profession with a very clear set of values. It teaches them that life outside of academe means failure, which explains the large numbers of graduates who labor for decades as adjuncts, just so...
I miss my friends, I have too much homework already, and I’m using the gym as a stress reliever? I actually look forward to working out now, I haven’t felt this way in, oh, about 3 years.
But mainly, I miss my friends and hate everyone being so busy. I’m going to put my Sabrina the Teenage Witch phone back in my room so I can do that thing people do - call and catch up- without...
“You have to keep the fights clean and the sex dirty.”
– Kevin Bacon (on marriage)
when you answer a jeopardy question based on...
(via thebrightsideoflife)
alexbaca:
(via rulesformyunbornson)
David Bowie...
It is pretty awesome to see history being made right in front of you.
I hope Stephanie doesn't mind.
brittanyorange:
I am tired of the inauguration already. I get that this is a “historical election”, but I’d rather remember Obama for what he did while in office, not that Bruce Springsteen sang at his pre-inauguration. I do not care that Beyonce will sing the song that he will first dance to. I’m just really tired of all the hype, and I think it’s been beyond played out. He is just one man, and...
Sexiest GIF evar (attn:stephanie!!!)
brittanyorange:
sourandsweet:
(Pixaur)
I could stare at it all day! ha, awesome.
100 Best First Lines from Novels. →
alexbaca:
(via skristenk)
More books to add to the list.
“When a guy cheats on you once, he will do it again. If he gives you butterflies,...”
– Sophia Bush (via kari-shma) (via brittanyorange)
and I just really like Sophia Bush.
Bookstore
treesandbirds:
Picked up One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey, Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris, and The Road by Cormac McCarthy.
All really, really good books.
My heat broke.
I can see my breath.
My hands are too cold to type anymore.
carolannodell:
kings of leon- use somebody
I...
Barbie Creator's Racy Sex Secrets Revealed -... →
I’m looking forward to this creepiness…and I really just liked the first sentence because it’s true.
Random Got Beautiful →
alexbaca:
(via bryonmcdonald)
You can choose by color!
I’m really into anything organized by color. This is so good.
These pictures instantly put me in a good mood.
It's old...
pre⋅ten⋅tious –adjective
1. full of pretense or pretension. 2. characterized by assumption of dignity or importance. 3. making an exaggerated outward show; ostentatious.
Origin: 1835–45; earlier pretensious. See pretense, -ious
“…Pigeons acting like they’re doves.”
– “Counting Down the Hours”, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
“Dear You
I say you’re the only one for me
Say that I will never ever...”
– “Dear You”, Josh Auer
“When I dream of afterlife in heaven, the action always takes place at the Ritz...”
– Ernest Hemingway
'Dexter' brother and sister are husband and wife -... →
carolannodell:
ericmcgehee:
oh my god that is so cute
Umm, I read about this today & while they’re both awesome, I can’t help feeling really creeped out looking at them together. They’ll always be brother and sister in my mind.
An Archive of Book Cover Designs. →
alexbaca:
(via influent)
Productivity just vanished for the next hour.
“Sometimes we love people so much that we have to be numb to it. Because if we...”
– -riding in cars with boys
(via bitchville)
(via brittanyorange)
Straight As!!! Finally! No stupid B+ to kill me this semester. Bring on the 18 credits.
the night
fiftywords:
He slept. The night was dark. The night was oily. The night was black. The night was deep. The night was charcoal. The night was slate. The night was cotton. The night was white. The night was pink. The night was yellow. The night was gold. The night was day.