January 2012
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I’ve just been in a really good mood lately, and I’m not sure why.
Miranda came by today to go for a run, which was fantastic because the weather was so nice. 60 and sunny—the perfect running weather. Not too hot, not too cold, and I can actually breathe because it’s not allergy season yet.
And I haven’t been procrastinating, actually. I’ve done all my work...
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“Every day God pats my head and calls me
angel, his little broken woman
and...”
– Tracey Herd, “Ophelia’s Confession”
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“I’m trying not to be so antisocial
truth be told, I’m not entirely hopeful...”
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that incredibly annoying moment when
you’re reading something and really really want to write down a favorite line or make a note on the text or just write something, anything, about what you’re reading
and you CAN’T DO IT because it’s a library book or a school-issued copy or whatever
but you don’t have a notebook handy, or it isn’t the right notebook because it’s important that you use...
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we qualified for NIT! and won the qualifier!
played 8 games today; woke up at 5:15 A.M.; Tess of the D’Urbervilles just got really disturbing really fast; Arsenal and Spurs both lost; it’s a red week; I have not even touched the piano since my last lesson; my entire body hurts
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last night I had a dream that recreated the end of...
and followed the sequence of events almost exactly, even switching POVs like in the book. Which was awesome, because I was in the battle at King’s Landing with Tyrion and Davos and the Hound, but also with Sansa and Cersei, and then with Jon Snow in the North. (Sadly, there was nothing about Dany in Quorth.)
But the most awesome part, hands-down, was when it switched to Bran, who was having...
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“In the secular night you wander around
alone in your house. It’s...”
– Margaret Atwood, “In the Secular Night”
green is not a creative color
ignore me, I use tumblr as a personal appointment book of sorts at times
to-do for this week
start Tess of the D’Urbervilles
finish AP GoPo comparative chart and vocab for GB
for the love of god do not fail your next AP Calc quiz
study vocab lists for Thursday’s ensayo
sign up for NHS volunteering session on the 27th?
check qualifier schedule/make corner cards
check the time...
4/11 on last week’s AP Calc quiz, meaning that whatever percentage 4 divided by 11 is = my quiz grade = 30% of my entire grade
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rebreakah asked: Hi Shea, will you give me some good poetry to read? I enjoy reading it but I'm not very knowledgeable in terms of authors and whatnot.
saythatyoullstay replied to your post: a question for you dear shea: the Downton Christmas Special that aired - does it belong to season 1 or season 2? or are there separate christmas specials that aired for each respective season?
oh my goodness i don’t even think there was a reply to be made to the three messages of excited crazed rambling obsession… girl i am on the train and i don’t...
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saythatyoullstay asked: a question for you dear shea: the Downton Christmas Special that aired - does it belong to season 1 or season 2? or are there separate christmas specials that aired for each respective season?
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christ on a bike
real post about Sherlock later
but for now, I am crawling into bed and eating my last piece of chocolate and feeling miserable
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Reichenbach Falls, aka a much-anticipated hour and...
Somehow I ended up going to see Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows tonight at the theater, and spent the entire movie impatiently waiting for the credits to roll so I could go home and watch the series 2 finale of the BBC’s Sherlock. (Interestingly, the film version is adapted from The Final Problem, aka the Reichenbach Falls story that tonight’s episode of the BBC version retells, so...
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“In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be...”
– Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
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another item to check off the bucket list
VERY IMPORTANT NEWS: Morning Edition tweeted me last night.
(Morning Edition coffee mug, multiple All Things Considered t-shirts, NPR bumper sticker on my car, Terry Gross devotee, etc. Public radio fangirl here.
Also, I am aware that it’s fairly depressing that this was the highlight of my week.)
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early dismissal due to snow
AND I GOT AN A FOR THE FIRST SEMESTER IN AP CALC
(and of course completely bombed our first quiz on series today…)
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watching Prime Minister’s Questions with my dad
is it wrong that I find Ed Miliband attractive
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“Algún poeta dijo alguna vez algo así:
Escribo porque me salva,
porque así es...”
– Poética, Andrés Bello Sánchez (via poesianoerestu)
there is no better feeling
than coming home after an endless day to drink Lady Grey and read a book.
Practice tonight, but I’m actually looking forward to it because we’re running corners and then playing.
TAKE ME TO YOUR LIZARD: owenparsons: Perhaps this... →
owenparsons:
Perhaps this has happened to you:
You are having a pleasant conversation with a friend when the topic suddenly veers towards something that, while utterly obscure, is a treasured subject of obsession for you. Perhaps someone brings up the franchise history of the Los Angeles Dodgers, or famously-snubbed Oscar nominees, or the diverse moons of Jupiter, or Batman.
Abruptly, your...
