December 2010
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i will never tire of this poem.
Tomorrow, on those long sofas of group therapy, we’ll both claim
we want to die. But we’ll mean: please someone convince us
to stick around. Remind us over and over that we deserve
to drink even the milk left over in the cereal bowl, to sop up
what’s left on our plates with bread. Because last night, we stood
on top of fourteen floors of suffering — from the...
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November 2010
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today in roommate talking.
Madeline: Oh, I’m definitely not going to the library, guess what’s on channel 3 at 10? I assume we have channel 3, although I have no way of knowing this. I mean, I have a way of knowing this, I just… don’t want to get up.
Nina: What is on channel 3?
Madeline: The Victoria’s Secret fashion show. Which I take… really seriously. And Jessica Stam is in it. And...
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it is probably not going to be a good day if
The first words out of your mouth in the morning are, “Oh, I feel awful. I feel like I’ve been hit by a bus.”
Reasons for feeling like you’ve been hit by a bus:
Spending the night very caffeinated.
Doing homework until 2am.
Rereading Harry Potter until 4am.
Spending between 4am and 5 am freaking out because your house keeps making noises and you’re afraid there...
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“We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don’t have books, don’t fuck them.” — John Waters
Oh, sophomore-year Madeline, if only I could go back in time and tell you this. You could have avoided so many awkward times! So many conversations with boys who maybe can’t read. (And by sophomore-year Madeline, I do mean sophomore-year Madeline, but I also mean...
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sickkkk abouttttt thissss, soooo addictiveeeee
How not to do your homework:
Write a sentence.
Reward yourself with a music video.
And yet. Here we are.
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pageantdad:
I just can’t stop laughing at this. I am in the Stimson Room. EVERYONE AT MOUNT HOLYOKE HATES ME NOW.
the part where she dances oh god
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complementarydanish:
YES. the entire show has become “revenge for bullied gay teens” or maybe “gay teen fantasy high school” which i’m obviously not against but come on… there are great characters in your ensemble besides kurt, and they get a tater tot protest? in two weeks, it will focus on something else entirely, like a 3 episode arc about how we should...
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complementarydanish:
idgaf about glee spoilers, i only watch this show for the music & the hotties. the plot is seriously awful unless it’s about kurt & burt. they figured out they could make more money off selling the singles than advertising so this show will run into infinity and the plot no longer matters. sounds cynical but i never understand a single thing that happens. NOT...
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The New York Times article about Venice in the winter is setting off some very serious nostalgia. (http://travel.nytimes.com/2010/11/28/travel/28Venice.html?pagewanted=1&hpw)
“Italy can do strange things to your perspective. Memories of a place become more real than the place itself.”
I miss Padova, and I miss Venice, twenty minutes away. In Venice, we always ended up lost,...
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"i can't find a match for any of these."
“I’m not like a real adult, Mom. My socks don’t have to match.”
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i'm printing out so much feminist theory right...
One of the rewards that I’m going to set for myself for doing all my work this week is that I can post my new pictures on facebook. Most of them involve Nina sitting on the floor with a hookah pipe in one hand and a margarita in another, just because I laughed every single time I looked at her.
I MISS MY ROOMMATES I GET TO SEE THEM SO SOON YAYAYAY.
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I WROTE A PAGE.
Time to eat some ice cream and watch an episode of 30 Rock and pretend like I haven’t been writing this page all damn day.
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Here is the music I just stole from Nigel:
new Kid Cudi
Atmosphere
old Something Corporate that somehow disappeared from my computer
I think there’s a nice transition here. Rap —> emo rap —> emo. My life has a perfect symmetry.
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This latter genre of fanfiction included many stories focusing on the relationship between the Enterprise’s captain, James T. Kirk, and Vulcan first officer Spock.
Not for the first time, I ask, “Am I seriously writing a thesis on this?”
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I have fallen into one of those pits of not doing my homework and I can’t get up. But in the meantime, I’m on page 412 of Deathly Hallows.
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Michael: Kelly, you are a Hindu, so you believe in Buddha.
Kelly: That’s Buddhist.
Michael: Are you sure?
Kelly: …No.
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My dogs just barked at the coffee maker when it started making noise. My dogs are the best, trying to to save me from my caffeine addiction.
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Did not write five pages. Wrote two pages. But, also, there were deVillers family dramz to deal with, and Wizard of Oz to be watched. So I feel only sort of bad, not REALLY bad.
Tomorrow: more pages. Like a lot of them. Like a hundred! And I’ll be like, “Hey Chaia, already wrote my whole thesis, LEMON OUT.” And then I’ll high five a million angels and graduate summa cum...
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One of the things that I’m supposed to include in my introduction to my thesis is “how I came across this topic.” I am struggling with this, because I don’t want to get all trip down memory lane and be like, “Once upon a time, I was twelve and read and wrote Harry Potter fanfiction all damn day. And it wasn’t slash, but I knew that slash existed. And I did read...
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I’m watching The Wizard of Oz, obviously, and having mainly two thoughts. 1) Judy Garland is perfect. 2) I bet there is some killer queer theory about this movie and I want to be reading it.
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Roommate conversationz, long-distance (aka via text message).
Madeline: Someone should write a thesis on the Wizard of Oz.
Nina: Omg. TELL CHAIA YOU HAVE A NEW TOPIC.
If Nina could see the terrible first page of my thesis draft, she would encourage me to do this even more.
Also, true friendship is when your roommate can spell your advisor’s name properly.
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Sometimes I have these moments where I’m like, “Am I really writing an honors thesis, for my senior year of college, about slash fanfiction? How did this happen? Who is letting me do this? How am I getting away with this?” I am either awesome or crazy or both.
Also, it’s definitely going to help me get a ton of jobs after college, so… looking forward to that.
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A Non-Reader's Guide to Sarah Palin's "America by... →
Maybe by some miracle, people will actually read this book and finally go, “This woman is a crazy person.”
