May 2013
55 posts
“We are the generation of nostalgia. We grew up in the age of transition. From...”
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Damn I forgot to eat dinner
home.
I’m only home for three weeks and I’m appreciating all the little things I didn’t appreciate before: how all the girls sat at the Gregerson’s for hours and just rolled around on the ground and laughed and ate cheesecake, how quiet nighttime is, how I ran into people at lunch and on my run last night, how my sister plays the piano at the most inconvenient times, how I can...
“chai tea”
– white people
“So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
My room is bare (save for a suitcase) and I’m sad and happy.
“When the liberal says “race is a social construct,” he is not being a...”
– Ta-Nehisi Coates, on the idea of race. (via theatlantic)
wrote a paper on social constructs the other week. interesting stuff.
Hi everyone, it’s Erika. Addy didn’t log out on my computer while we were studying together ooooops. But she’s probably already asleep since those who follow our lovely Addikins on multiple social networks will also know that she fell asleep in the shower earlier and reached all time lows (not the band), thanks twitter!!!! But she (we) have a final tomorrow, in addition to...
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“Though I am old with wandering
Through hollow lands and hilly lands,
I will...”
– W.B. Yeats, The Song of Wandering Aengus
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And I will settle in Pamplona and I’ll...
Anonymous asked: what are your study tactics?
“Before you study life, you should live some of it first.”
– Jessica Pena (The Daily Californian) on graduate school
“Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
(i love that the movie used this direct quote)
When I try to start studying
whatshouldberkcallme:
It’s like:
Happy Mother’s Day to my beautiful mommy who called me this morning to simply let me know that we were both in long distance relationships.
“The Chamber of Secrets has been opened. Enemies of the Heir, Beware.”
– Sylvia Plath (via incorrectsylviaplathquotes)
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“If you want to be happy for an hour eat an ice cream. If you want to be happy...”
– a random guy my dad met in laguna beach and is now obsessed with
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It’s kinda hard to study for a class you never went to… Berkeley isn’t kicking my butt. I’m kicking my own butt.
do you ever just
realise
that one of your friends
male or female
is like, really hot?
but not in a ‘damn i’d tap that’ kinda way
but in a
‘i made friends with someone who’s really attractive, nice’
hah my friends up here think all my friends from home are attractive. win.
more gatsby blah blah blah sorry
I don’t agree with this article, but it’s certainly interesting.
“Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them...”
– A.Schopenhauer (via naisae)
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I am so nervous to interview at the Chronicle because they are awesome, literary people and I used to read The Clique series at some point in my life.
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Actually really happy this review got published because it was so close to getting cut during production.
Anonymous asked: has berkeley gotten let out yet?
thegoodygoody:
I don’t fear a lot, but one thing I do fear is not being the person I once said I’d be.
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oscillates: Mona's Shadow →
oscillates:
at the Louvre the glass pyramidal treasure trove + classicist masterpiece
I careen down palatial hallways with walls lined with gilded arpeggios strummed by gods on earth,
Denon Wing on the 1st floor: a cluster of herdish tourists of various ethnicity and similar…
I applied to work as a nanny for these two kids a couple days a week this summer in Berkeley. And their parents called me back today and I HAVE AN INTERVIEW WITH THE CHILDREN. WHAT. HOW. UH.
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The worst response to “How are you?” is “Busy.”
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