January 2012
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Best Podcast Episode Ever. →
So smart, so funny & my future husband.
Hardcore crushin’
Thanks Randy Ramirez!
Sick since Wednesday
Dizzy from doing laundry.
Haven’t had a full meal since then.
Fever nightmares of burglars.
Take me lord, I’m ready.
%&$#!
I would really like to eat a full meal again :(
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Educated, Unemployed and Frustrated--2011
With all the hours I’ve put in at my jobs, I didn’t think I would get a chance to do my end of the year wrap up. (Un) Fortunately, a nasty bout of the stomach flu has afforded me the luxury of boredom. I went through my blog posts for 2011 and saw a pattern. I spent most of this year stressed the fuck out. It began with the beginning of my final semester in school, continued into the...
“At long last, the nation is beginning to acknowledge the very large problem that...”
– Peter J Reilly, Forbes (via occupystudentdebt)
truth is trickiest: Why Complaining is an... →
misstristin:
It’s a sure sign: complaining means I’ve satisfied my basic requirements for happiness, and have room to complain about nonsense.
So, when I’m bitching about customers, it’s only because I no longer have to worry about being broke and depressed… which is pretty damn awesome. How ironic that the…
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Gurgle
Phone interviews make me scared :(
Lessons
Bottle Service means that it is difficult to keep track of how much you drink… :(
#firstworldproblems
Off to work, or as it’s sometimes known, the worst place to have a hangover.
Mendacity Overload
This is a promise to myself that I will strive not to emulate the women females I work with in retail. Every conversation involves A.) a boyfriend/marriage/children B.) Clothes/brands/shoes C.) Beauty products/hair/nails. I will always aspire to think about issues and ideas, not gossip and materialism. Three times this week I walked into conversations about how they hope their boyfriends will ask...
Hole
I don’t think I’ve ever missed Berkeley this much. Its actually become an ache.
Also because I love the Muppets
Word of the Day
Definition for reticence:
Web definitions:reserve: the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary.
wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
Today I pray for patience.
Ninth graders are driving me bonkers.
“I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with...”
– Carl Jung (via psychotherapy)
Weird! →
Swift Kick
I really need to launch myself out of the funk I’ve been in.
Lower self-esteem, negative thoughts, antisocial tendencies, lack of motivation
None of these characterize me when I’m feeling well, but the last couple of weeks have left me downtrodden. Am I just tired?
Gross and sad :( →
The participants couldn’t reliably identify which statements came from magazines and which from rapists — what’s more, they rated the magazine quotes as slightly more derogatory than the statements made by men serving time for raping women.
“There is a fundamental concern that the content of such magazines normalises the treatment of women as sexual objects. We are not killjoys ...
Google speaks about Diego Rivera Doodle
univisionnews:
Today’s Google’s Doodle is inspired by the socially conscious art for which Diego Rivera became famous. (Screen Caption: Google)
By MANUEL RUEDA and SANDRO MAIRATA Channel: Culture, Latin American Affairs
His murals once drew the ire of protesters and journalists in the U.S. because of their anti-Capitalist themes. But more than fifty years after his death, Mexican artist Diego...
