December 2010
63 posts
dangagliardi asked: Les Paul, eh?
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“I’m going to be in my room watching Glee all night. Let me know if you...”
– first words out of my 14-year-old sister’s mouth who I’m supposed to be “babysitting” while my mother and step-father gallivant in New York
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Dec 23rd
“Dog treats are just smelly meat guts.”
– my mother, on why I cannot bake my dogs dog treats
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Dec 21st
16 page International Organization final: complete. Hello, Christmas season, I did not see you there.
Dec 21st
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“It’s not so much that Saturday Night Live is any better or any worse than it has...”
– Videogum
Dec 20th
C+ in German
Good, I was hoping I would get a grade that could substantially diminish any chance of my every getting into grad school. Good. Great.
Dec 20th
Dec 20th
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On a final exam, one of my professors wants us to define the term “golden straightjacket.” It also referred to in our notes with the exact same spelling. Does having a PhD mean spell-check ceases to work?
Dec 19th
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“I’m in love with my sadness.”
– Smashing Pumpkins lyric which most aptly describes the entire Smashing Pumpkins catalogue
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Do you ever find out what someone’s hopes and dreams are and find them so ridiculously unrealistic and outlandish and see them flaunting them as if they’re already a reality that all you can do is chuckle to yourself and say, that’s cute? If not, I might be a terrible person.
Dec 18th
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Dec 17th
After six long years of studying the German language, I am forever done. Meine Leben ist schön.
Dec 17th
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Passing out twice before my philosophy final and once during it means I did great on it, right? Right?
Dec 16th
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“Do not place a photograph of your ­favourite author on your desk, especially if...”
– Roddy Doyle, Ten Rules for Writing Fiction
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One of my residents made macaroni and cheese but...
The hallway smells like cancer.
Dec 13th
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It’s always fun when you have your iTunes on shuffle and a recording of you and your best friend singing a Bright Eyes song during freshman year of high school comes on.
Dec 12th
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Listenthisfitwheniwasakid: Employment Opportunities...
Dec 12th
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Dec 12th
Book title + pop culture reference, as received...
-Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret Sanger -Saved By the Bell Jar -Amusing Ourselves to Death Cab for Cutie -The Age of Raisins -The Lion King II: Exile and the Kingdom -Waiting for John Doe -The Origins of Total Recall -The Stranger than Fiction -When the Stranger Calls -Fahrenheit 451 II: Burn Notice -Heart of Darko -The Plot Against American Apparel
Dec 12th
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Dec 11th
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Someone called into my radio show and requested “a song by Animal Collective, I’m not sure what it’s called. Something about the sky? It’s really long? I think it’s from one of their more recent albums?” I was able to correctly identify that song. I don’t want to say I’m a good DJ, but you know what, I am a really fucking good DJ.
Dec 9th
I just used the word "gregarious" in a...
I know my superiors are going to have to look up its definition.
Dec 9th
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It has been a week since I have been able to read fiction, due to impending finals, and I think my vital organs have actually started to shut down.
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Anonymous asked: What is your favorite rock album of all time?
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At St. Paul 'wet house,' liquor can be their life... →
“They rebel against the chirpy optimism of abstinence-based programs: Try harder. Pray. Ask for help. Don’t give up. We feel your pain. In contrast, St. Anthony feels like Death Row. The message is refreshingly grim: Everyone is going to keep drinking, it’s probably going to kill them, and no one’s going to talk them out of “It’s just so honest...
Dec 5th