August 2008
13 posts
“I don’t care how much power, brilliance or energy you have, if you don’t harness...”
– Zig Ziglar (via onherway)
“It is never too late to be what you might have become.”
– George Eliot. (via ngoc)
“Sustainability is like teenage sex; everyone says they’re doing it, but not as...”
– Joel Makower
July 2008
45 posts
I was sitting at a cafe in Westwood when my first California earthquake happened. (The first, believe it or not, was in Charlottesville, and yes, I felt it then, too.) It came and went. I thought it was just a huge truck passing through and forcing the ground to rumble, but alas, it was a real, live earthquake. I didn’t know that it was a 5.6, or that it warranted friends and family to...
Michelle Obama's Senior Thesis at Princeton →
I wonder if I’ll one day be held liable for my racially-charged senior thesis as well. Regardless, this is the new reading.
I Should Have Done This When I Was Down in OC
Huong: i need a favor
Tara: ha besides washing your car?
Huong: you make me sound so oppressive.
Huong: but homey i can't wash my car tomorrow. let's just hang.
we'll get mexicans to wash my car. which, btw, is so dirty now that i am sure i am going to catch something by touching it
Tara: hahaha no i was gonna wash it here, i gotta wash my car too
Huong: no we'll get mexicans to wash your car too!
less than the price of a meal!
Tara: haha no, i don't wanna pay, plus it's free when i do it here. no worries, if you don't want your car washed i can do mine tomorrow afternoon
but i really would like to wash yours!
give my life some meaning. please.
jesus.
Huong: i don't know why i even have to participate in the washing of my own car.
isn't this why i went to college
so i wouldn't have to?
christ. can someone validate my bougie existence?
“If you are ten years out of high school and you say, “damn, those were the best...”
– Stephen King on NPR’s Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me (via mrgan) (via pinkhotel)
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known...”
– Elizabeth Kubler Ross
Anatomy of Some Hours
Time I boarded the plane from Midway yesterday: 7:45 pm
Time plane took off the runway: 8:40 pm
Time I landed in LA: 10:40 pm
Time I got my luggage: 10:50 pm
Time I boarded the shuttle: 11:00 pm
Time I left the airport parking gates: 11:30 pm
Time I got home to my apartment: 12:05 am
Time I got to bed: 1:10 am
Time I got up this morning: 5:17 am
Time I left...
Is LL Cool J seriously blasting from the adjacent complex? Seriously? Is doin’ it and doin’ it and doin’ it well seriously traversing the space between their room and mine and entering my sphere as we speak?
I am going to go clobber their apartment down. Me and 2008.
“I always tell the girls, never take it seriously, if ya never take it seriously,...”
– Penny Lane (Almost Famous)
“Gutenberg’s generation thirsted for a new book every six months. Your generation...”
– Mr. Feeny (via 52books)
48 Ways to Be Nice →
The only thing that would be extremely taxing on me is giving blood. Everything else is doable.
iistix →
Wow, who knew iistix relaunched? I used to read this in high school!
I really want to go to Malibu Creek. It sounds like you can just walk along the waters. Also, I think I want to get a cheap bike and start biking around Santa Monica and Malibu.
I went for a jog this morning for the first time in a year. I jogged for 500 feet and walked the rest of the 1.5 miles. This needs to improve.
Kevin gave me all his credit cards to keep so that he wouldn’t be able to use them. I gave him my Facebook password so I would never be able to log in again. Come to think of it, I should give him my credit cards to hold too. You should see my bill this month. (And last month.)
Huzzah.
I feel like getting my tattoo done. Urgently.