August 2009
Tumblarity
My tumblarity is now a whopping 3.
Macarons
I HAVE FINALLY HAD A MACARON AND IT WAS MARVELOUS! GO FRENCH PASTRIES.
“Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest...”
– Kevyn Aucoin
I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only...
- Karl Lagerfeld
oscuridad:
Benny & The Jets - Elton John
I'm not a fan of change...
but I’m going to have to be.
A Japanese priest set a kimono on fire in Tokyo in...
fuckyeahfacts:
(World’s Greatest Book of Useless Information)
Epic fail? ohwhyyesidobelieveso.
& now my mom tells me she wants to legally separate from my dad.
I think a lot of me died today.
I’m an anxious wreck about so much right now.
I wish my family would stop fighting.
I hope my freshmen like me.
I hope a new group of friends is formed.
I want to stop feeling like I’m going to throw up.
I want a drama-free year with my roommates.
I want things to be easy, not even gonna lie.
10 tips for incoming freshmen
acewepeel:
Today is move-in day here for freshmen, so I thought I’d offer some advice to incoming college freshmen on Tumblr. Some of these are funny, some are serious, but they’re all important. Enjoy.
Everybody is desperate for friends the first couple weeks. Do not miss out on this window. Be super nice to everyone and hang out with as many people as possible. Your best friends in the first...
“One recognizes one’s course by discovering the paths that stray from it.”
– Albert Camus
Smart Kids Are More Likely to Become Drunks
fuckyeahfacts:
Higher IQ scores at age 10 may be associated with alcohol-related problems in adulthood. Public health experts from the University of Glasgow were able to obtain the childhood mental ability scores of over 8,000 men and women in their 30s, and found — much to their surprise — the higher IQ, the higher the likelihood of developing a drinking problem. The correlation existed even...
Canada Is the World's Most Friendly Place
fuckyeahfacts:
HSBC Bank asked over 2,000 ex-pats in 48 different countries to rate their new nation of residence on ability to befriend locals, ease in joining community groups, number who learned the language and percentage that bought property. Germany and Australia followed Canada in the two and three spots respectively, while the United States placed sixth. Defying all stereotypes, France...
furchesl:
Went on a trip to the east coast for five days, and now my tumblarity is dismal.
And this actually annoys me.
Dammit.
When I came back from Milwaukee, mine was a 1/4th of what it had been previously.
Conclusion: tumblarity is kinda lame.
Letter to An INFJ by an ENTP
“Letter to an INFJ” I wonder about a bird that lives and dies in a flash, perched atop a saquoia or otherwise majestic tree. Thinking about how little the bird is, how seemingly insignificant, how short its life in comparison yet the beauty and irony found in how little say and how helpless a tree comes to be as the bird eats in the breeze. Of course the bird has zero knowledge of...
Ten Myths about Affirmative Action →
“Happiness, too, is inevitable.”
– Albert Camus 