November 2010
63 posts
A short list of what's not appropriate:
When I tell you I spent the last half day in the ER for extreme weakness, to reply “I’m kind of tired too.” Sure you are. NOT.
When you tell me to “get better soon”- its not happening, biotch. Must you keep reminding me?
When you advise “get more sleep” or “eat regular meals”. That’s not going to help, but it’ll make sure...
A letter →
To what it may concern,
We don’t have a name for you yet. We, being the doctors and nurses, parents and insurers, and (probably most relevantly) myself. You’re a wily beast, you are. First, you…
And now for some shameless self-promotion:
Yo’:
I know this blog is great. Fantastic even.
BUT, I have a favor to request of you. Look at my OTHER blog (its sort of like the other woman) at
literaryliteracy.tumblr.com
Contribute. Create a dialogue, by asking questions. Add things to the submissions folder? Shamelessly pass on this promotion.
My grade depends on YOU! (YES, YOU.)
That’s some serious responsibility, you...
A cast of characters: →
This blog is blatantly egotistical. I don’t claim to write about important world happenings; I write about the people and things that affect me right now. Thus, I often invoke different people on…
“To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it...”
– Victor Hugo (via frominsidethecocoon)
A portrait. →
Ernest Feller.
Father of three. Grandfather of three.
Most importantly, my grandpa.
Today, I was searching for a blank journal to take back to school with me. In the process, I stumbled upon…
Dystopian Love Story →
A note: This is copied from the blog I keep for my Discourse and Rhetoric class. I prefer to keep that one more or less private, hence why I’m simply copying this instead of linking to the class…
Why did the librarian slip on the library floor?
cryptstine:
Because she was in the non-FRICTION section!
OH HO HOOOOOO!
This is patently awful. But I love it nonetheless. PUNS FTW.
Deliberately →
I bought a pen today.
A calligraphy pen. And a bottle of jet black ink. And a pad of parchment. Purchases I’ve been meaning to make for a few weeks now; after taking a medieval…
Time Trials →
7 Days until Thanksgiving
12 Days until Medieval Manuscripts Research Presentation and Byzantine History Paper due
13 Days until History of Empathy Paper Presentation
19 Days until Rhetoric…
A question:
Is this blog literature?
“The path of a reader is not a runway but more a hack through a
forest, with...”
– Holden, 2004
“People observe the colors of a day only at its beginnings and ends, but to me...”
– The narrator, Death, speaking in Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief.
Read this book.
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Its at night that the demons come.
Always night.
The quiet, sinister, unoccupied, witching hours.
They squirm their way in, uninvited. They whisper memories long since repressed, a reminder of…
This makes me smile. →
I desperately hope that this couple is still together; they sound exactly as idealistic as I’ve been.
“Even though I walk home alone, my faith in love stays true.”
‘Ello Again →
This is the requisite update, just because I have been ignoring this blog for awhile. (I’m better at posting on my tumblr: [vitamiritricis.tumblr.com]) I just took some ridiculously strong pain…
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where...”
– Henry Thoreau, Walden.
This is definitely on my list of 20 books everyone should read. It isn’t one of my favorites, but it is thought provoking, offering another viewpoint on society, self, and stuff.
Anonymous asked: Scary moments?
“What makes loneliness an anguish
Is not that I have no one to share my burden,...”
– Dag Hammarskjöld
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I just finished Anne of Green Gables, a trifling little novel that I don’t suppose I’ve read for nearly a decade- I distinctly remember last reading it in fifth grade.
It is perhaps one of…
I am prepared to make a bold statement:
I love my Kindle.
Yes, yes, yes. I know Kindle’s are soulless. They lack the musty old book smell, and its impossible to dog-ear a piece of plastic and wire. They will be the death of libraries, and they’re the bane of bookshops.
My point remains, though.
Today, I was sitting in the middle of the Honors College; they must have just gotten...
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I am pretty sure my life is falling apart, and all I do is lie here and watch.
That, I suppose is a bit dramatic, but as it stands, I am pretty sure all my grades are falling- I’ll be lucky to get…
