November 2011
15 posts
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creative visualization: a lesson in life and...
Tara Stiles on WhoSay
Tara Stiles on WhoSay
regardless of whether tara stiles (one of my favorite yoga inspirations) is using it, i’ve been coveting an imac for some time. it just so happens that this setting (replete with the wooden furniture table, not so much the chairs) is something i have been building my intentions toward. building, as in, saving enough money to purchase my own...
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Worth it?
Nope, it was not worth it.
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New York Magazine: Soho. Nolita. Dumbo. NoMad? →
Decent article about neighborhood branding.
Unless* you’re taking my class on gentrification, the general population doesn’t seem to appreciate the branding of NYC and the branding of neighborhoods. Back in the 90s, Fort Greene was the hood. These days, it’s “Downtown Brooklyn” and incredibly gentrified. I was telling my students the other day that, within a 6-block...
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“Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of...”
– Carl Sagan (via starsinhereyes)
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I'm 25, now.
My old Tumblr bio!:
Deeply Superficial…Superficially Deep I watch Gossip Girl and probably own a menagerie’s worth of shoes. I like oatmeal and lentils, though not together. Karl Marx is probably one of my favorite reads, but you’ll find Star magazines properly situated next to the toilet in my apartment. I’ll have a master’s degree under my belt at the age...
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Worth it?
theangrytherapist:
That’s a question you hear a lot. “Was it worth it?”
Not certain what either “it” refers to, but generally we’re saying, “was the destination worth the journey? Was the effort worth the reward?”
The thing about effort is that effort is its own reward if you allow it to be.
So the answer can always be “yes” if you let it.
- Seth Godin
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“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that...”
– Maya Angelou
February 2011
1 post
January 2011
4 posts
July 2010
2 posts
i think about the women who’ve taught me in and out of school, who led complicated and exciting lives in their youths, pursued their PhDs, wrote books and traveled the world, didn’t marry until they were in their 30s, and realize how attainable all those things are. living life for yourself before you do for others.
when i was stoic and less open-minded as a teen, there was always a...
February 2010
2 posts
“Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.”
– Howard Zinn (via teresawu)
January 2010
0 posts
I should be happy...
I have a tiny headache that’s making its way into the emotional recesses of my mind. It’s acute, but making ripples. I think that’s a New Year’s “thing” to work on - getting better at redirecting negativity.
December 2009
6 posts
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I know this is redundant and exagerratory,
but I feel fat.
/The end
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About a year ago today, you sent me a text in a last-ditch effort to ensure that the holes in our friendship of [redacted] years weren’t enough to sink us all. Or that maybe I hadn’t abandoned ship - a fear or vice you’d single out in others. Mine was trust - yours, abandonment.
I still think about you - how could I not? There are some of your qualities in me, and I’d be...
Wow
The last time I was on this blog, I was preparing myself for something completely different than the life I’m living today.
April 2009
4 posts
I want to go back to the time where I was drowsy, peeking out the car window in China, while the sun was beating down my leopard print pink tights.* Or when I was in the van on the way to JFK the morning we left for Florida. I want to go back to that moment wherein I traced the silhouette of the lightning bolts against the windows of the bus from Philly into NYC that summer night. I thought...
“When we want to give expression to a dramatic situation in our lives, we tend to...”
– MIlan Kundera in Unbearable Lightness of Being
What a lovely way to describe the state of not giving two shits about anything.
I’ve stayed up past 4AM for the past week. Little sleep. Work, editing, and nonsensical things. What a (four day) weekend. Confrontations, visits from Asian family members, about seven bags and boxes of cookies. Dinner, conversations, crying on the kitchen floor.
And then…tomorrow.
March 2009
5 posts
TO-DO
Make Wiki entry for professor
Work on index for professor ii’s manuscript
Read for Ind Study tomorrow
Work on proposal for Tuesday
Grade papers
More to come..
“Uhh..I feel like masturbating. B R B!”
– [redacted]
“I feel like I took a shit in my ass.”
– DC
Terrible, terrible time management has manifested...
TO-DO
Comps:
Marx
Durkheim
Weber
Comps: Methods
Read 100 pages for Ind Study
Grade student’s papers
Lesson Plan for Wednesday
Read for Globalization (probably won’t)
Make copies for Wednesday class
Crash
and
Burn
STRESSED THE FUCK OUT!
February 2009
20 posts
LOL(Z)
[redacted]: lol you're so silly
[redacted]: we went to movies and ate dinner
[redacted]: girls night out
[redacted's ex]: yea
[redacted's ex]: all the single ladies
[redacted's ex]: all the single ladies
{redacted's ex]: put ur hands up
{redacted's ex]: lols
{redacted's ex]: that kinda girls night
{redacted]: DM has a boyfriend
[redacted]: you're weird
[redacted's ex]: im weird?
[redacted's ex]: wow
[redacted's ex]: kinda messed up
[redacted's ex]: coming from a person who juss ditched me
[redacted's ex]: but ok?
[redacted]: as usual you think i'm out doing stuff
[redacted's ex]: no?
[redacted's ex]: but saying im weird
[redacted's ex]: at this momemnt
[redacted's ex]: doesnt really make anything better
[redacted's ex]: imma go fuck myself now
[redacted's ex]: since weird people do this
[redacted's ex]: ttyl?
[redacted's ex]: mayb if im in a good mood
[redacted]: lol i miss you
[redacted's ex]: i hope u throw up all the fish
[redacted's ex]: from both ends
[redacted's ex]: at the same time
[redacted's ex]: >=P
[redacted]: i hope so too! so i get rid of all the food i ate
[redacted]: i'm offended! why do you think i'm desperate jeeez
[redacted's ex]: im offended
[redacted's ex]: why do u flake on me
[redacted's ex]: jizz
[redacted]: i didn't flake it just came up
[redacted]: i'm supersorry
[redacted]: i will make it up to you
[redacted]: i'll treat you to a steak dinner next time!
[redacted]: :-P
[redacted's ex]: sure sure.
[redacted's ex]: i only had today free
[redacted's ex]: cus its presidents day tomrorow.
[redacted's ex]: next week i might be UNAVAILABLE
[redacted]: oh its fine cus im DEF unavailable until like march 8th
[redacted's ex]: EAT SHIT
[redacted's ex]: PLEASE
I don’t ever want to forget this day.
DC: I can tell the problem's in my intestines/
Me: It smells like ass and formaldehyde.
“Chew thoroughly.” I don’t get it. Why? Does calcium carbonate absorb...”
– My sister, wild-eyed by Chewable vitamins.
“Feel how you can trust. And from that trust, you can let go. And from letting...”
– Rodney Yee, Total Body Yoga
UGH
I ate too much today. Like, half of a 1-lb bag of pretzels. This is what happens when I am on my period, stressed, and still sick-ish on a Friday night. Cleanse tomorrow!
TO DO
Email back recruiter (cover letter)
Call health insurance regarding last gyn visit
Read Spivak
Attend tonight’s programme
Look over my students’ pre-tests
As an aside, because I have to get back, I met my students for this semester today, and I always underestimate the high - the inspiration and excitement - of teaching. Crappy morning, wonderful class, and then Aunt Flow came to...
NOTE, THAT I
feel like crap. I just got my period, trekked across Manhattan with a bag full of books, brought back two large bags of groceries, and have a deluge of reading to do. Plus, I. feel. like. a blimp.
THIS IS WHAT I DO
I don’t have a lesson plan, nor a concise conception of how to go about the class. Many artists relied on improvisation to fully tap into their creative potential. Somehow, I doubt that will translate quite as well in front of the classroom.
IT'S AMAZING...
…the clarity that distance and time provide. A-ma-zing.
Me: Last time I was with [redacted], it was just sad.
DC: Yeeah..the leprechaun?
Me: I just wanted to look at him and say, "[redacted], you're sad." Not just sad, emotionally, but an all-encompassing characterization.
DC: Noo..that's so mean. Because it's true.