June 2012
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Tomorrow I am going camping with my family in Santa Barbara across the street from the beach. I shall bring a book and a hat and a swimsuit and a sweatshirt. Good night.
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I never knew Fitzgerald did satire. I finished The Curious Case of Benjamin Button in under an hour and it was so easy to read, but very enjoyable. I feel like most authors somehow weave the whole “society conforms; you must not” into their books or novels, but Fitzgerald does it so subtly. He doesn’t pressure you or even tell you. He just writes the story of a man who is born...
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comatose-erection asked: So the second to last class of statistics, i wasnt really in the conversation but i heard you and that other indian boy talking about food at trader joe's and about the masala pattie and that night i had to buy dinner so i decided to try that because i mean addy, when are you ever wrong. so i bought it and i just made a burger today for brunch and it was like... really good. :') this is...
Anonymous asked: quick question: what did you wear to your internship interview?
Anonymous asked: best high school memory?
Anonymous asked: has it hit you yet that you're leaving yet?
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Fathers Day Mixtape (for my papa)
Lying Eyes / The Eagles
Sound of Silence / Simon and Garfunkel
Feelin’ the Same Way / Norah Jones
Chinese Translation / M. Ward
Message in a Bottle / The Police
Blinded by the Light / Manfred Mann
Norwegian Wood / The Beatles
Something / Eric Clapton and Paul McCartney
You Don’t Have to Cry / CSNY
Lola / The Kinks
Big Yellow Taxi / Joni Mitchell
Truckin’ / The Grateful...
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Anonymous asked: your front tooth is crooked
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Anonymous asked: who are your closest friends?
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Anonymous asked: The reason im scared about going to a cc and transferring is bc it is soooo hard to get classes nowadays, they fill up so fast, and you end up being stuck there for 3 years instead of 2! also im scared that transferring is becoming harder in general, but i feel like i'll regret it because going to a school in la is my dream. do you have any thoughts or advice on this? thanks(: also are you...
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Ultimate invention: pillow that saves your dreams and you can use a USB to put in your computer as you watch your dreams unfold..
How War and Peace Got Nooked →
newyorker:
The world of e-readers experienced one of its most preposterous controversies this week, when a blogger named Philip Howard noticed that Barnes and Noble’s budget electronic edition of Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” had searched for and replaced all incidences of the word “kindled” (a variant of the name of Amazon’s e-reader, of course, but also a legitimate English word) with the word...
Pretty Little Liars has such good literature references. I just caught Lolita, Harry Potter and To Kill a Mockingbird. Who would’ve thought…
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Voted for the first time today. My polling station was at my elementary school. My English project is on Pink Floyd. I’m analyzing “Time.” I analyzed “Time” while waiting to vote at my elementary school. I just can’t even..
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The Blunder is to estimate —
Eternity is Then.
– Emily Dickinson. I’m analyzing her poetry for English homework and she’s difficult, but it’s a great feeling when you finally understand what she’s trying to say. Like this quote right here. I’d been reading it out loud for fifteen minutes until I finally got it:...
“I really want to be a writer, but I don’t know what I’d write about.”
I don’t know why I’m expecting to not like this movie even though I loved the book. Actually I do know why … same filmmakers as Twilight …
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