February 2012
20 posts
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Obama gives 10 states waivers on No Child Left... →
About friggin’ time. Now it just needs to be abolished completely. I’m serious, America. NCLB is the scourge of your education system and you need to throw the whole thing away and start over.
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“These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and...”
– Michael Cunningham, The Hours
“For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying — what one...”
– Virgina Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (via fuckyeahvirginiawoolf)
January 2012
43 posts
phiLOLZophy: A Letter To My Best Friend's Ex →
philolzophy:
In general I consider anger to be an immature emotion. It’s just so caveman-y, you know? I earnestly think about wars or some dude yelling at me and feel like ‘really?’ You look like you are on Judge Judy. But when it comes to guys dicking over my friends, I’m just as guilty. I maybe (definitely) told you that you better “pray every night” you never run into me again and um that...
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Clarification: missionaries
It’s not that I think missionaries are literally rude. In fact, most of the ones I’ve met are the kindest, most open-hearted people you’ll ever meet in your life. They do good works, much more than I have ever done, and that I respect. There is a lot to be learned from them. What I mean by “rude” is the idea that one religion trumps another and that one should travel...
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“What we from our point of view call colonization, missions to the heathen,...”
– Carl Jung (via cultureofresistance)
In an international relationships class at my super conservative-Christian university, I once referred to missionaries and missions trips as “intolerant and rude.” There was an awkward silence and everyone stared at me, including my prof, who did...
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A found poem from the Dominican
The air is blunt when I need sharp and it rolls around in my mouth too thick and it fills up my throat and I can’t swallow and my lungs don’t believe me when I say yes this is air we can breathe it we can but this isn’t air; it is heat and water and worry and we can’t breathe it. we can’t and the heat isn’t heat (really, it’s not. you have to be here to...
yearslater:
rachelannsaid replied to your post: I had Indian food twice in one week, which goes against my healthy eating plan but I don’t care because it is so good omg you don’t even know
I work in a Chinese restaurant (don’t worry, we don’t serve cats/dogs or insects) and they’re going to open an Indian restaurant soon. Can’t wait!
well you’re missing out. as a Chinese person, I can tell...
Me, invariably, every month
andeventhis:
“Why am I so hungry?”
“Why do I want to eat ALL THE CHOCOLATE?”
“Ugh, why am I so bloated?”
“Are my boobs getting bigger??!?”
Then, a week later:
“Ohhhhhhhhhh. Oh, right, yeah. Okay.”
Being a woman fail.
GPOY.
