January 2011
47 posts
Beca Grimm, from Top5 to NPR. Music replaces blood... →
Lucky Me Photography, check it. →
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BLORR on the rise: Seven Sisters →
hm, I guess so?
Someone told me something today that made me think. Then re-think. Then become confused. Then laugh. Then think again.
“You can’t teach an old dog new tricks, because it’s hard as fuck to jump through a flaming hoop with a broken hip.”
I had always thought that people said that expression assuming that the old dog doesn’t want to learn new tricks because they are...
SLOTHPOP: listen! →
Learning three language is not as easy as it seems. Why yes, you’re right. It doesn’t even seem easy. And I am here, as living proof, to tell you it’s effing not.
I started with sign language last year, upon being inspired by Anne. Unfortunately I have no room in my schedule to take classes for it at UNF (yet), but I have been teaching myself and it’s working just fine,...
“You smell like a pancake!”
– Bobby Regan, after giving me a hug last night. Syrup must run through my veins
“When a country owes you billion dollars, they’ve got a problem. When a country...”
– Jon Stewart on America’s massive debt to China (via soupsoup)
“Me: I’m going to slap you through the comp screen
Le: Omg you poked me...”
“Me: “I’m staying in tonight”
Le: “Omg that’s...”
“Me: It’s raining. No bueno for playing tennis
George: If we were Emo...”
Google Maps told me it would take 2 hours and 42 minutes to get from my house in Jacksonville to my final destination in Orlando. Well googs, I made it home in 2 hours and 7 minutes exactly. Not everyone was born with my lead foot though.
“At what age do you tell a highway it’s adopted?”
– Zach Galifinakis (via loragrl)
Funny story, I was just driving home from Orlando on a highway adopted by HOOTERS.
“A good hope is better than a bad holding”
– Auletta
At Ken Auletta's lecture tonight,
he announced our Journalism class and forced us to stand up while a room of 200 elderly people applauded us. After sitting down Cliff leans over to me and whispers
“that’s probably the only time people are going to clap for us when we tell them we’re going to be Journalists.”
Amen brother.
this might be the busiest semester of my life,
-25 hours a week as a nanny
-Averaging 1-2 stories per week for the Spinnaker
-Working with the Times Union, Xombia, and my Applied J class in general (first homework assignment is to come up with 100 story ideas, sourcing 25 of them with three sources per story).
-Train for the Gate River Run
-Work out five projects for Intermediate photo
-Find time for human contact other than professors...
“Luke: What was that girl’s name? Remember? With the long blond hair and...”
“I give credit for ACTIVE attendance. As you all know, you can be present in...”
– Chris Trice
I vote that all websites/blogs concerning food...
mclame:
Who’s with me?
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is being made... →
Fiction Fix made the Spinnaker again, and... →
“Some have tried to resolve this gap by hunting or butchering an animal...”
– -Foer
from his book Eating Animals. I recommend this book to anyone who eats meat. It may change even the most stubborn minds (like my very own).
