Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
- Calvin: I've been thinking, Hobbes-
- Hobbes: On a weekend?
- Calvin: Well, it wasn't on purpose.
November 2010
56 posts
Cheshire Moon
Damn it, CK. You better see this because I went through a ton of sites. For you.
And partially for me.
And because I like this song and you’re not online for me to share with you :(
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 mongooses.
An enchantment of nightingales.
A study or wisdom of owls.
A prickle of porcupines.
An unkindness or a murder of ravens.
A mutation of thrushes.
A creep of tortoises.
A fantasy, blessing, or glory of unicorns.
A zeal of zebras.
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.
“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
—Neil Gaiman
“We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.”
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Purging
I was purging through all the screen names on my AIM buddylist. I went from 384 friends to 88. Before, this would have bothered me, the idea that all the friends I had were “gone” but I’m grateful. That I have 88 friends I would talk to on a day-to-day basis. And even that I have friends that I would say more than just the typical “how-are-you-I’m-good-how-are-you-same”. If there is a phrase I dislike so much right now, it would be “not much”. If really there was not much to talk about, then why IM me? And if there is “not much” to talk about, let’s talk about something worth it then.
You meet so many people in your life. We have to keep the ones who get you, even if it is the little things. The ones that are willing to love you.
I wonder if I could manage to purge my facebook.
“Don’t confuse the untried with the impossible.”
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...the feeling that when its beautiful old walls shut her in no one knew where she was. It seemed almost like being shut out of the world in some fairy place.
I’m in the middle of the Secret Garden (for my children’s literature class). I love how Burnett shows the double-edged sword of being alone. Is it solitude, which one can love and enjoy, usually with age, or is it loneliness, an absence of people in one’s life? It’s just one of those things that life throws at you and you handle it in the way you best can.
(PS. the above picture is by Julia Kuo, a very talented artist whose art is whimsical, light, and beautiful. Check her out!)
October 2010
33 posts
Tell Me What We're Gonna Do Now [Ft Common]
Joss Stone
Funny how my world keeps spinnin’
sometimes you can be so silly
You know just how to make me laugh
Ooh, your skin is so lovely
It moves me when you touch me
I know that you got my back
It feels so safe when you hold me
It’s already like you know me
When my mind’s void
You’re my joy
You’re the dream when I sleep
And hey I’m for ya yeah I adore ya
you’re everything that I need
I love how you love me
If I’m made for you
you’re made for me
It’s too good to be true
So tell me what we’re gonna do now
Hedgehog's dilemma
The hedgehog’s dilemma, or sometimes the porcupine dilemma, is an analogy about the challenges of human intimacy. It describes a situation in which a group of hedgehogs all seek to become close to one another in order to share their heat during cold weather. However, once accomplished, they cannot avoid hurting one another with their sharp quills. They must step away from one another. Though they all share the intention of a close reciprocal relationship, this may not occur for reasons which they cannot avoid. The hedgehog’s dilemma suggests that despite goodwill, human intimacy cannot occur without substantial mutual harm, and what results is cautious behavior and weak relationships.
“The greatest battle is not physical but psychological. The demons telling us to give up when we push ourselves to the limit can never be silenced for good. They must always be answered by the quiet steady dignity that simply refuses to give in. Courage. We all suffer. Keep going.”
—Graeme Fife
“How terrible it is to love something that Death can touch.”
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If you’re not depressed, those bipolar depression commercials will make you depressed.
The Show Must Go On
Moulin Rouge
I’m in the mood for musicals right now.
Inside my heart is breaking
My makeup may be flaking.
But my smile still stays on.
“Now, and for a long time, the best way Bridget knew to settle her mind was to run. Sometimes she felt that the meditative state of the long, quiet miles helped her think. Sometimes she felt that the pure exhaustion helped her not think. Sometimes she believed that she was running toward some sort of resolution, and other times she knew she was just plain running away. Still, it was she did.”
—Ann Brashares
“A thing cannot be completely wonderful so long as it remains sensible.”
—G. K. Chesterton
