January 2011
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Things I Want to Remember About January:
Received my diploma in the mail. Ran 5k. 10 miles in one week. 12 minute mile. First cross-country ski, first jump in a hot tub. Chard, tilapia. First payment to my student loans. Learned there should only be one space after a period; not yet adjusted. Cleaned my inbox, sewed buttons, read books. Hiking further and further into the hills. Champagne flight at the Cask and a...
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Books read Jan. 22-31:
1. Titus Groan, Mervin Peake. (Been trying to read this book for years. It’s very densely written and not really plot-based, but finally I’ve learned how to be patient enough to enjoy it).
2. Macbeth, Shakespeare, as well as the Macbeth essay from my Shakespeare After All compendium.
3. The Sky Is Everywhere, Jandy Nelson.
Total number of books read in January: 10.
That’s...
“You are constantly told in depression that your judgment is compromised, but a...”
– Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression (via psychotherapy)
Minus the part about medication working, yes, pretty much absolutely yes.
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the...”
– James Baldwin (via thesearepeopleyouknow)
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“From Kermit the Frog, literally an extension of Jim, comes a life-affirming...”
– Anthony Minghella.
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Books read Jan. 16-21:
1. The second half of Lady Chatterly’s Lover, D.H. Lawrence. (Overall feeling: meh. Very idea-focused, to the point of repetitiveness, and detracting from character).
2. Matched, Ally Condie.
3. I have begun Titus Groan, for what feels like the fourth time. I have never finished it before. I am hoping I can push through it before the end of the month, though.
“Inarticulateness is the weapon of the authoritarian in this way: To speak...”
– “Sarah Palin Is Ruining My Life,” Cary Tennis, Salon.
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Books read Jan. 8-15:
1. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett.
2. The first half of Lady Chatterly’s Lover, D.H. Lawrence. (So far: not as dirty as I was lead to believe).
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One of our bookshelves broke last night. It collapsed in epic fashion. There were books and trinkets all over the floor, and I looked at it and I thought it was wreckage and I thought that this was the saddest thing to happen this year. And that thought made everything all right again.
“The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor. It is the one thing...”
– From Aristotle’s De Poetica. via Lapidarium (via viafrank)
“We need to realize that the rhetoric, and the firing people up and … for...”
– U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords, in an interview with MSNBC after her office was targeted with death threats, vandalism and harassment following her vote for healthcare last Spring.
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“You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon.
Shine on you crazy...”
– Pink Floyd.
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Books read Jan 1-7:
(this might be a terrible way to keep track of this, who knows)
1. Persuasion, Jane Austen.
2. Stolen, Lucy Christopher.
3. Revolution, Jennifer Donnelly.
4. Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality, and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale, Catherine Orenstein.
Obviously, being sick this week gave me some extra time.
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A sign that you aren't doing things quite right:
I got an email today about a short story contest and I got really fucking excited because they said their theme this year was “supernatural,” and I thought, “Finally I can submit a story I actually care about instead of those boring ones I write to get all my professors off my back.”
And I didn’t know that I felt that way, not really, until just now.
deadpresidents:
“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.” — Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), 26th President of the United States (1901-1909)
“Immense brainpower does not protect you from emotional mistakes.”
– J. K. Rowling (via dreamscaperiven)
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“I wrote ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huck Finn’ for adults...”
– Mark Twain.
hermionejg:
Here’s everything I know about copyright: When I want to quote Emily Dickinson, it’s expensive, even though she has been dead forever.
- J.G.
“What you read when you don’t have to determines what you will be when you can’t...”
– Oscar Wilde (via foreverg5)