December 2010
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Love of mine some day you will die But I’ll...
November 2010
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These past couple of mornings, I go out around 6 to do a quick run before class. This morning, there was ice over the grass and trees, a thin blue layer on everything. After sprinting, I was so tired, I laid on the cold grass and watched the sky turn pink as the sun rose up. When I went back in at 7, all the ice was melting off of the petals and blades right before people started coming out. It...
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Do you ever do that?
Where your facebook newsfeed tells you things that you wish you didn’t know. Like comments between people. Or statuses. So you block them from your newsfeed? Is it just me?
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“Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain...”
– Bill Mollison
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tamburina:
Probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns into a girl. How well or how badly the man actually knew the girl doesn’t necessarily affect the transformation. She was there, and she was the whole city, and that’s that.
J.D. Salinger, A Girl I Knew
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A man after my own heart!
Me: Hello, beautiful.
Roberto: 'Ello, beautiful....er.
Roberto: That's right.
Roberto: I break grammatical rules for you.
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Are you ready? Are you ready?
It’s crunch time, the last stretch of fall quarter! Two weeks until academic hell is over. Let’s do this!
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Today's spontaneous adventure resulted in...
The Great Expectations
An illustrated version, hardcover classic of the Hunchback of Notre Dame (the novel, not a picture book)
Angela’s Ashes
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
A Wrinkle in Time
The Cricket in Time Square
Falling Leaves
Vinyl records of the original cast of Cats, The Sound of Music, and Pippin
An amazing sketch by this random person I ran into. God, it was...
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The Way to Jenn's Heart: Persimmons & Tea
Me: During break, we can have tea and hot chocolate and persimmons off the tree by my patio. Come!
Jenn: I'm like... in love with you. Take me away! Sweep me off my feet, Christine!
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Simple Pleasures
A very warm cup of whatever (English Breakfast Tea Latte, Chai Tea Latte, Barley Tea, hot chocolate etc.) in very cold weather. When the weather is cold enough and the drink is hot enough, your fingers feel like they’re on fire between the temperature changes.
When you get in the car at the right now and it’s still warm inside from the sun all day, even though it is cold outside at...
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Turkey Day!
Hey, beautiful people, whoever you are and wherever you’re at!
Thank you so much for being a part of my life, even if a little bit. I’m so grateful for all the people that have walked into my life and for all the things you’ve taught me. I hope you all have a fantastic Turkey day! Eat lots and enjoy the time with family and friends!
love,
cjh
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“You’re just a shade, just a shade of my real life.”
– Inception
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I had my first long run in two months since the accident. It felt amazing. I’m sure I’m going to die tomorrow in the aftereffects but that kind of rush, it’s amazing.
After (a very slow) 4 miles, I ate my poor stomach to its limits at our potluck. Thank you to our lovely family that cooked dinner and played with me :) This Thanksgiving, I hope you know I am so so so thankful...
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I have fallen in love with a vblogger. Is that sad or what? I have spent the majority of my free time in the past three days watching communitychannel on YouTube. Thanks, Molly. Best distraction before finals start. Sad, I live vicariously through a videoblogger.
But watch it.
Come to the dark side.
It may be awkward here.
By the way, on another note, has anyone noticed how incredibly lonely...
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I really like Dixon Ticonderoga pencils. Everything about them is great; how light they are, the sun-yellow color (as opposed to the orange of Papermate pencils), the soft eraser (crucial!). These are my preferences when I’m using a pencil… which is almost never because I live in the 21st century.
My right pinky is more crooked than my left. It’s not just crooked in one...
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Is this a sign that I'm getting old?
I am having the hardest time taking down my FB wall…
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“We work for the university! Which is like working for the state. Which is like...”
– Sarah Yang, friend & shuttle driver (:
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“Why is it,” he said, one time, at the subway entrance, “I feel I’ve known you so...”
– Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
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1. I love rain. I want to lie down on the concrete or grass or wherever in my shirt and shorts and sleep in the rain. I love that smell after (or during rain); it makes me think of clean. Like that smell when people have been in water so long that you can smell the faint scent of water on their skin.
2. Math is incredibly comforting. I remember, when I was reading The Ear, The Eye, and The Arm a...
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“Oh, happily ever after, wouldn’t you know, wouldn’t you know.
Oh,...”
– He is We, Happily Ever After
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Mikey Week!
Monday: Econ120 Midterm
Tuesday: He is We & Trevor Davis concert
Wednesday: Kina Grannis & Katie Costello concert
Thursday: Harry Potter Premiere & UC Founder’s Day
Friday: Bruno Mars
Saturday: Nonsexist dance
All these big events paired with the loveliness of satisfying conversations, new music, reading new books, being with friends, etc. has been the amazing blessings of...
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“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners...”
– Marcel Proust
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“The era of the Korean greengrocers I had known as a child had pretty much come...”
– Gary Shteyngart, Super Sad True Love Story
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“It’s the worst kind of combination of abuse and privilege, and growing up...”
– Gary Shtenyngart, Super Sad True Love Story
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Please excuse
the lack of variation for the next few posts. I am currently in the middle of a great very dystopian, 1984-esque book from our generation. The female protagonist is a Korean-American girl and it strikes me how spot on the author is when describing Korean homes, Korean anything, etc. So…I’ll probably be dragging you on this journey through a very dense book with me.
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It’s a little creepy how much I love this...
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“If you can’t fly, run. If you can’t run, walk. If you can’t walk, crawl. But by...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968)
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O meu corao o sol pai de toda cor
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I want a library full of our stories A ship to...
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“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else...”
– Ambrose Redmoon
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“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The ones...”
– Jack Kerouac
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“The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to live, mad to...”
– Jack Kerouac, On The Road
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“God, grant us the…
Serenity to accept things we cannot change,
Courage...”
– Reinhold Niebuhr
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I watched Paul PK Kim, Kaba Modern, Quest (!!!!!), Clara Chung, Jennifer Chung, Joseph Vincent, and Paul Dateh perform live.
I am astounded by their talent.
And it really just goes to show the amazing amazing amazing potential that these people, everyone I know, and even those I don’t know have to not only change the world through their God-given talents but continue to push boundaries...
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I am sitting in my office, looking at the wall-length window, sipping hot chocolate while listening to mellow music. The wind is wailing outside.
God, some days, I just love my job.
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It’s comforting in a way that only a typical...
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30 Rock
Jack Donaghy: Never mind how it happened! That's water under the bridge.
Danny Baker: I'm sorry. We don't have that expression in Canada. Does that mean that whatever happened can power a lumber mill?
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“Math tells us three love tragedies:
1) Tangent lines who had one chance to meet...”
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Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing...
Calvin: I've been thinking, Hobbes-
Hobbes: On a weekend?
Calvin: Well, it wasn't on purpose.
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Damn it, CK. You better see this because I went...
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Collective Nouns (A school of fish)
A sleuth of bears.
A sedge of bitterns (I had to look up what a bittern is).
A quiver of cobras.
An intrusion of cockroaches.
A murder or parliament of crows.
A crash of elephants.
A flamboyance of flamingos.
A kindergarten of giraffes.
A bloat of hippopotamuses.
A charm of hummingbirds.
A loveliness of ladybirds (ladybugs).
A leap of leopards.
A pride of lions.
A business of...
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Spiders
Spiders in Japanese superstition are messengers of God, meant to eat away the evil that get in the way of our lives. Spiders were praised by farmers because they would eat the pests in the fields.
Another Japanese superstition concerning spiders is it is bad luck to kill a spider at night. At night, however, it is alright to kill a spider.
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WatchLove the ad! Reminds me of concert buddies (:
