Long and Short of It: Archive

Mar 31st

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“Lover please, do not fall to your knees, it’s not like I believe in...”

– Laura Marling

Mar 30th

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I love this moment: writing a paper, pausing, rearranging some paragraphs, and realizing that you just upgraded your argument from a B+ to an A paper.

Mar 29th

“Some months back, I gave thought to becoming a skeleton in a medical school...”

– Mary Roach, Stiff (via anatha-) (I love this book, everyone should read it.)

Mar 29th

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Mar 25th

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“I’m just saying, whoever killed her also murdered the English language.”

– Castle

Mar 25th

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Mar 24th

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Mar 23rd

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Mar 22nd

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Mar 21st

“Here I am standing at your window again Waiting for you to say go away or come...”

– Josh Ritter

Mar 21st

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Mar 20th

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Mar 20th

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Mar 19th

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My homecoming included sangria, venison, and orange tea.

Mar 19th

“We follow her on to Manhattan, where she boards a Cunard ship bound for Rio,...”

Mar 19th

Eerily Beautiful Mug Shots from 1920s Australia →

These are incredible.

Mar 16th

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Mar 15th

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Mar 14th

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“It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great...”

– Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens

Mar 12th

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I just made a donation to help Japan and the Pacific area. You should too. http://www.redcross.org/en/

Mar 11th

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Mar 11th

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I spent my evening painting a bookcase white and listening to Tarkio for the first time in months. Hard to stay mad after that.

Mar 9th

BPAL update, now that I’ve tried them all. (Obsessed? What on earth could you mean?) Snake Oil kind of smelled like a vanilla-y head shop, not the sexy I was hoping for. Loralei was kind of boring and overly perfumed, which was a disappointment given its name. But I wore Schrodinger’s Cat all day today and I couldn’t stop smelling myself; grapefruit and mint, but soft and...

Mar 8th

Mar 7th

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“And you can’t just fly into people’s bedrooms Then expect them to...”

– Emilie Autumn, “Ghost”

Mar 7th

129 notes

In other news, I am spending the day in a cozy room with snow blowing outside, drinking Russian Caravan tea from a flowery teacup, wearing red lipstick, listening to So Runs the World Away, and continually smelling my wrists. My Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab imps were retrieved today, and I currently smell of Glasgow, though I’m not certain of my opinion yet. I still have to try London,...

Mar 6th

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