December 2009
20 posts
“You can’t measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of...”
– Milan Kundera (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
i’m in lincoln nebraska right now. back for a wedding of two of my favorite people to each other.
i love being home with those that this quote speaks to.
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“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
– Socrates (via quote-book)
elliot and wall
steep hills transform people into ballerinas, pointed toes reach out to catch the pavement below them.
how much of how you get from the top to the bottom of steep hill informs the way you live?
do you bound, are you cautious, do you embrace the slant, or fight against it awkwardly in a silent rebellion that only your soles can testify to.
“Come on skinny love just last the year
Pour a little salt we were never here...”
– -skinny love. bon iver
i’m attempting to dominate one of the most intimidating papers of my grad school career thus far and I am doing so by summoning the beautiful intelligence and courage i found in meeting kobi when we were in northern europe for a month. I remember her saying that she...
procrastination
good intentions don’t write papers.
damn it.
the final four.
four more days. means only 24x4 hours until i will be free. no more revising. no more papers. no more options. only the bliss that comes from setting down the last paper on a stack and walking away from it shedding weight with every step of distance made.
until then- i’m extremely cranky and completely disillusioned to the educational system in general. three papers and one final to...
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free[dom to view is found outside of obligations]! →
if i didn’t have to work at four am this morning or have three papers to write this is what i woodda, shoodda, coodda done today… maybe the first thursday of next month i will be able to delight in these displayed imaginations but for now… my words and my pages.
this is reminicent of free thrusdays on museum island in berlin. i we missed out on that one too.
p.s.
you should pretty much assume that when i have a few posts in a row i am supposed to be working on homework but am trying to make myself feel better by being productive somehow even if it’s not the thing i’m spending twenty thousand a year on.
go tumblr.
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what i've been listening to...for the past week... →
part of the beauty that is the musical education conducted by one david pierce.
free credits. mad beats.
44 degrees of separation
i just caught a glimpse of what the temp is today in lincoln nebraska: 2 degrees
i walked to school today in a light jacket, tights and a skirt and i was slightly chilled.
it’s sunny with a high of 46 degrees in seattle today and i can see the cascades.
hello seattle.
“For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via justbesplendid) (via quote-book)