December 2010
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The time of the night when everyone is sleeping...
except when it is too late for mac and cheese.
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“I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies. Example:...”
– Quentin Jacobsen (Paper Towns)
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Alexithymia
I need chapstick and I can’t find any. I’ve got words bouncing around on giant yoga balls in my head— ricocheting all over the place and not staying still long enough for me to make sense of how I feel. Not that there’s any particular way I should be feeling now. It’s quiet. The Christmas tree is on and my parents are upstairs sleeping while my sister is on her laptop...
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“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via fuckyeahfitzgerald)
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Everyone else watched Buffy The Vampire Slayer...
I finished it in about five or six months and I still feel like it was quite the experience. The characters were complex and went through amazing development. It’s so fun to follow the growth. Metaphorically speaking, it was pretty darn kickass. And then there’s the whole woman power thing, which resonated strongly through all seven seasons, and it’s inspiring. I liked it because...
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One time in Psychology class,
The teacher asked us if we’d ever seen anyone bullied or harassed in all of our fourteen years of school thus far. Without a second thought, I raised my hand and proceeded to look around the room. My hand was the only one raised. I’m not trying to be noble or anything, but it happens, bullying that is. It’s not melodramatic to admit it and you look like liars if you don’t....