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He showed the words ‘chocolate cake’ to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: ‘celebration.’
Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto (via dark-rye)
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She was extending a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
Jonathan Safran Foer (via creatingaquietmind)
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It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
Pictures of drunk Cara.
:: a gentle puff :: laura berger
MUG CAKE: 5TH ATTEMPT
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Of Late
Things I’m supposed to do this summer:
- Honors proposal? (do not want to do at all)
- Work
- Help arrange sister’s grad party
- Find a laptop for my sister
- Find a car for the family
- Figure out post undergrad plans
- Take GRE
- Research grad schools
- Fill out grad session for UH
- Find volunteer opportunities for GK
- Thank you letters
- Drive my sisters around
Things I am likely going to do this summer:
- Make excuses
- Spend money I don’t deserve or need to spend
- Eat a lot
- Bake a lot
- Write a lot
- Read a lot
- Spend hours at the piano
- Neglect the violin until it’s time to play with Jimmy Borges again
- Make thank you cards
- Feel nervous and hopeless about the future
- Take GRE
- Drive my sisters around
- Some of the other things above but grudgingly
Things I have done this summer:
- Start a summer notebook
- Read
- Made two cards
- 1 minute of sister’s grad slideshow
- Cooked with some MOBlings
- Cook dinner for my mother and family
- Successfully parked backwards once (not in my car)
- Successfully parked the SUV (3X)
- Neglected planning duties (flawed beginnings)
- Got three rolls developed
- Started countless chapters of reflective writing in my head
- Discovered my ears are allergic to some metals
- Thrown away inhibitions in talking to some people
- Started a cover letter
- Looked at my grades
- Learned some Hanafuda
- Replaced hopes with other ones
- Started using some Ilocano with a very poor accent
OK, but Cersei Lannister is TERRIBLE. She is not any more or less terrible because she is a woman, she is A TERRIBLE PERSON, and I don’t know where the show is at in the series, but I assume that you know this by now and if you say that hating Cersei is mysoginist, then that’s cray.
Obama’s one-liners during his speech at the White House Correspondents Dinner.
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The Sciences Sing a Lullaby by Albert Goldbarth
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I’m Clara Oswald. I was born to save the doctor.
This dang episode… Just wow. Also I feel the need to rewatch everything with River Song and the Ponds, now.
