January 2011
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today i learned...
…a little something about the Jejune Institute by participating in a free induction workshop.
I can’t really tell you what happened (partly because it’d ruin the fun for you if you did it and partly because I don’t really know how to explain the point of it all), but check out these links for more info:
http://www.nonchalance.com/...
December 2010
134 posts
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today i learned...
…that my seventh grade Social Studies teacher would probably be extremely surprised to know that I am a tour guide now, considering how awful my first attempt at public speaking was in her class.
I’m glad I applied for CATs and grateful for my experiences in the program, especially being able to bond more with my mentor and to pick up a mentee. :]
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…”we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement.”
Ain’t that the truth. Written by L.M. Montgomery, author of one of my favorite series ever, Anne of Green Gables.
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“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only...”
– Journalist Rebecca West, 1913 (via Slaughterhouse 90210)
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today i learned...
…that perhaps I am so worried about PPIA because I’ve never worked this hard for anything else in my life. Not for AP exams. Not for the SATs (although I worked pretty damn hard for those). Not for college apps.
34 days.
In the meantime, I really should be applying to other things, but I just don’t have the heart to.
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i hate when books change their covers to match the...
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES.
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“For a white person to look at me and say, “You’re just like me, we’re both...”
– David-Lee, The Color of Fear (via jazzonia)
Have heard similar lines before.
(via sheresists)
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today i learned...
…that even with the wrong type of chocolate, not enough butter, and no measuring spoons (because I LEFT THEM AT SCHOOL), you can still make really good Kahlua fudge brownies.
The recipe (partially) called for: 1/3 cup butter 3 oz unsweetened chocolate 2 cups sugar
What I had lying around/what I put in was: Whatever butter was left on the butter tray (which was less than half the butter...
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“Place your hands in mine.
I’m ready to be the strength
you have waited for.”
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
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I want to go shopping, but that would require that I change out of my PJs for the first time in like… 3 days. Excuse: I’m sick and feeling crappy. Also, it’s Winterbreak, y’all!
It would also mean I’d be doing something other than sit in bed under my covers, watching romantic comedy after romantic comedy.
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today i learned...
…that one of life’s greatest pleasures is waking up at 1:30 p.m. to the sound of pouring rain on Christmas and then to spend the entire day in bed watching movies, even if a sore throat indicates you are getting sick for the first time since August.
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Today, my sister and I were watching the fifth...
(via omgharrypotter)
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When your friends mention something bad while your...
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today i learned...
…that although kids are a handful and smelly and time-consuming, they are Such a joy.
Also I changed diapers 3 times today, and I am definitely becoming more adept at it. This is Solomon.
And this is Solomon’s baby brother, Judah.
I baby-sit Judah every week at school, when his mom [a Ph.D. student in the Social Welfare school] comes to campus and needs a few hours to herself. I...
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some days i make it through
I miss you (still)
but only when I see you.
How ironic.
I think having you there, very solidly present, makes it harder for me to forget and push things away. Especially today, when I left the meeting room hurriedly, not daring to show too much, not knowing if you would care.
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today i learned...
…,and I mean really really learned, what it means to be Asian and American.
But for now, I am too tired and too cried-out from frustration to elaborate.
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today i learned...
…a lot about Alcatraz, considering it was my first ever visit there when I have lived in San Francisco for 17 years.
For example -it hasn’t been used as a prison since 1963, when the last inmates left the island due to deteriorating buildings and high operating costs. -some of the correctional officers and their families actually lived on the island -36 prisoners have attempted to...
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“You don’t have to be anti-man to be pro-woman”
– Jane Galvin Lewis (via bellaesprita)
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today i learned...
…how to drive from my house in the Russian Hill district to Belle’s house aaaaall the way in the Portola district. I got lost, but hey, I made it without hurting myself or the car!
I’m liking this whole (almost)adult-with-a-drivers-license-on-winterbreak thing.
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today i learned...
…that I will never live the kind of life that the people my mom housecleans for lead.
I made some easy money today by hanging up coats at a Christmas party in a swanky apartment atop Russian Hill. The various brands I saw on the coat rack included: Prada Armani Chanel Ralph Lauren Brooks Brothers
If I sold all 30-35 coats for their in-store prices, I could probably make enough to pay for...