Sniffles and shivers and sneezes in August don’t make sense.
and I’m about to put on a face mask and jump rope in my living room.
I think that at this moment in time, there actually isn’t somebody out there wondering about how I’m doing. I’ve washed away from a few memories this past year, I think.
Who has not practiced this form of alchemy, converting painful experiences into interesting stories, entertaining anecdotes, cocktail party banter?
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- Elizabeth Wurtzel, Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women
Do other people do this? I call it AFA (Anything For an Anecdote)
(via juliaallison)
FTS: For the Story. Essentially lived 2003-2004 FTS.
walking pretty stridently.
eyes meet through the window.
smile.
smirk.
he knocks on the glass four times.
smile. eyes raise.
walked on by.
wondering.
alexbalk:
“A tiny Texas school district will allow teachers and staff members to carry concealed firearms to protect against school shootings, provided the gun-toting employees follow certain requirements.
The small community of Harrold in north Texas is a 30-minute drive from the Wilbarger County Sheriff’s Office, leaving students and teachers without protection, said David Thweatt, superintendent of the Harrold Independent School District. The lone campus of the 110-student district sits near a heavily traveled highway, which could make it a target, he argued.
‘When the federal government started making schools gun-free zones, that’s when all of these shootings started. Why would you put it out there that a group of people can’t defend themselves? That’s like saying ‘sic ‘em’ to a dog,’ Thweatt said in a story published Friday on the Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s Web site.”
Ugh. When I was getting ready to go teach in Compton, a few randoms and a few family acquaintances asked me in all seriousness if “they will give you a gun for security”. This pissed me off—more so once I had made it to my school and got to know the families. It felt ignorant. I was teaching 2nd grade.
Guess I was the one who was being ignorant. #@$(*
Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.
lovepuppy:
Ok, watching Manhattan instead.
Chapter one, he adored New York City, he idolized it all out of proportion…
Just saw Vicky Christina Barcelona. I love how in love Woody Allen is with PLACE. Be it NYC or Spain or London. PLACE.
